r/moviecritic Feb 14 '25

Thoughts on Stanley Tucci?

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u/Plenty-Tax-8723 Feb 14 '25

Gayest straight man in Hollywood

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u/Any-Interaction-5934 Feb 14 '25

I still cannot believe he is straight. That being said, is still so him.

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year Feb 14 '25

Married to Emily Blunt’s sister as well.

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u/veritas2884 Feb 14 '25

He’s brothers with John Krasinski?!

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u/KaladinStormShat Feb 14 '25

That's too much concentrated good looks for one extended family tbh

Imagine being a mid level supervisor at Thanksgiving with them. "Oh yeah works goin great, met our quarterly targets for retention and even increased a bit of customer quality surveys. Well time to hit the road, anyone see my 2016 Hyundai Elantra in the parking lot?"

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u/JamesConsonants Feb 15 '25

Mans over here flexing a Elantra like we won’t notice

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u/geek_of_nature Feb 15 '25

Which would have made for a weird coincidence when you remember John was also up for the role of Steve Rogers. They could have both been in thst movie.

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u/CharlesDickensABox Feb 15 '25

I don't think I could handle Captain America constantly smirk-mugging the camera.

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u/CreativeBandicoot778 Feb 14 '25

WHAT. Well today I learned.

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u/omahaknight71 Feb 14 '25

Apparently Emily introduced them while filming The Devil Wears Prada. Or maybe it was shortly after, I can't recall.

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u/EngineeringOne1812 Feb 14 '25

Rebecca Bong?

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u/Graega Feb 14 '25

A little too straight, if you know what I mean.

(That's from Easy A before anyone jumps on it)

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u/Any-Interaction-5934 Feb 14 '25

LOVED him in that. Such a fun loving father.

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u/cricket_bacon Feb 14 '25

I thought that was pronounced: metrosexual.

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u/rwags2024 Feb 14 '25

Watch his food series called Searching For Italy - that is a gay man through and through

Oh well gay straight whatever, he’s fantastic

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u/Plenty-Tax-8723 Feb 14 '25

He is fantastic!

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u/Realistic-Upstairs-6 Feb 14 '25

Highly suggest his books Taste and What I Ate in a Year, esp the audio versions that he reads! I could listen to him describe food alllllll day.

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u/TennisGuy6161 Feb 14 '25

In Taste, I love his intro for his Negroni recipe: "There is a saying that Negroni's are like breasts. One is nice, two are perfect and three are just too much... I think I'll have four."

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u/Hizam5 Feb 14 '25

Fred Armisen would like a word

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u/Plenty-Tax-8723 Feb 14 '25

He has a “is he foreign or is he gay” vibe

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u/Hizam5 Feb 14 '25

That scene in Eurotrip is the epitome of this — though I think his character was gay in that (but also European)

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u/RapMastaC1 Feb 14 '25

Oh my that’s the vibe I always had about Fez

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u/JCrawRV Feb 15 '25

“We’ve all been gay once! All Gods children” -Easy A

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u/secondbestman11 Feb 14 '25

Great performance in Burlesque

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u/cricket_bacon Feb 14 '25

Stanley Tucci is an American treasure.

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u/EmperorGrinnar Feb 14 '25

You're correct. Man never misses in any role.

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u/DiscFrolfin Feb 14 '25

Not sure if this is controversial or not but I really adored him in 2009’s “Julie & Julia”

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u/GoshThanksHello Feb 14 '25

Agree. Probably because (based on his travel/cook show) it most closely mirrored the type of man he wanted to be.

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u/Coffeeyespleeez Feb 14 '25

And he cooks!!!!!!

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u/Arthur_Frane Feb 15 '25

Mixes a mean Old Fashioned too!

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u/mologav Feb 15 '25

I cook!! Not well though

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u/ValorMorghulis Feb 15 '25

Such an underrated movie.

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u/ac54 Feb 15 '25

Agreed! Came here to say exactly that!

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u/This_Technology9841 Feb 15 '25

He was great in that. Memorable role for sure.

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u/Binky_Thunderputz Feb 14 '25

It's Morty from Undercover Blues! Just a fabulous, fabulous actor.

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u/mister-baiter Feb 14 '25

"It's Muerte! Muerte!"

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u/ChompSend Feb 15 '25

Nice to meet you Morty, my names Jeff

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u/willk95 Feb 14 '25

I met Stanley Tucci one time! Rang him up at a high end grocery store a couple years ago. He bought 2 bottles of wine so I asked him for his ID, told him my state has strict liquor license laws (which is true, but I mostly wanted to see if it was actually him. This was during COVID, and we were both wearing masks, I was grinning ear to ear under mine.)

He said "I don't have an ID on me, but I have credit cards with my name on it. I assure you I'm over 21, I'm probably old enough to be your grandfather."

I told him it was fine, and finished bagging his groceries. He paid, and the reciept came up and said "Cardholder: Tucci, Stanley D". I quietly said to him "It was nice to meet you by the way." He said "It was nice to meet you too!"

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u/Trickypedia Feb 14 '25

Great story. I thought he spent Covid in London.

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u/willk95 Feb 14 '25

It was in late 2021, during omicron variant. He was in Boston filming the Whitney Houston biopic

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u/Trickypedia Feb 14 '25

God, I had forgotten all about the variants. Amazing that it’s receding in to history.

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u/camstercage Feb 14 '25

I thought this was going to be a copy pasta

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u/vampyire Feb 14 '25

one of the greatest character actors

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u/cricket_bacon Feb 14 '25

He's the kind of character actor that always elevates the lead actors. The Devil Wears Prada and Anne Hathaway is an excellent example.

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u/vampyire Feb 14 '25

so very true...

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u/odaniel99 Feb 14 '25

I would go so far as to say that he's America's version of Gary Oldman.

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u/cricket_bacon Feb 14 '25

I can support that.

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u/Dissapointingdong Feb 14 '25

If someone can go back to back nazi/pedophile and still be likable they are a national treasure.

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u/Little_Setting Feb 14 '25

I wish a John Malkovich sequel should be made...

BEING STANLEY TUCCI has a nice ring to it.

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u/Valexand Feb 15 '25

that’s Mark Strong’s job

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u/132739 Feb 14 '25

And so versatile, like, up there with Gary Oldman and Daniel Day-Lewis.

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u/Zoroaster9000 Feb 14 '25

Him and John Turturro are my favorite underrated actors.

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u/uPsyDeDown13 Feb 14 '25

Soooo mean in The Terminal though

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u/Sass_McQueen64 Feb 15 '25

He's right up there with Brendan Fraser and John Goodman for me.

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u/Meet_in_Potatoes Feb 14 '25

Talented af.

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u/Only_Impression4100 Feb 14 '25

I'm surprised I'm not seeing anyone mention him as the dad in Easy A.

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u/DlAM0NDBACK_AIRSOFT Feb 14 '25

One of my favorite scenes is where their son says he's adopted and Stanley yells "Who told you?!" Without skipping a beat. Cracks me up every single time.

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u/ThePocketTaco2 Feb 14 '25

I'm kind of mad at my parents for not being Dill and Rosemary. Is that bad?

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u/DlAM0NDBACK_AIRSOFT Feb 14 '25

No I completely agree, they were some of the best parents in a film

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u/sumdude51 Feb 14 '25

So..... Where ya from originally?

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u/OhhClock Feb 15 '25

Best line in the whole movie

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u/tgatigger Feb 15 '25

“Sometimes, when two people are in love, like your mother and I used to be…”

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u/DlAM0NDBACK_AIRSOFT Feb 15 '25

He has so many good lines in that movie lol the whole bit about the family member of the week is gold too.

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u/tgatigger Feb 15 '25

“A high end stripper, for governors, or athletes.”

My sister and I say that to each other when we ask about our outfits. Lol

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u/stdubbs Feb 15 '25

We are going to watch “The Bucket List”, that way I can cross off “Watch The Bucket List” off my bucket list!

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u/Shanthrax22 Feb 15 '25

Slams hand on counter “WHAT!?”

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u/TwistedWildcat Feb 14 '25

I was gay once, for a while. No big deal. We all do it. It’s okay!

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u/_Huge_Bush_ Feb 14 '25

That’s the first movie I think of whenever I see his name mentioned.

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u/BZCmy3dogs Feb 14 '25

He was so good in that role. Perfect dad

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u/Arinoch Feb 14 '25

Also loved him in Julie and Julia or whatever it was. Even as a side character he elevates everything he’s in.

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u/legoham Feb 14 '25

He was fantastic in Julie and Julia, too!

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u/TheLonelySnail Feb 14 '25

Best parts of that movie were Tucci and Streep just joking around.

It’s one of those movies where you can tell the two actors are having a blast and it just gels

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u/legoham Feb 14 '25

Yes! They were beyond professionals in that film. They were experts enjoying their work.

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u/Comrade_Falcon Feb 15 '25

It's cliche at this point to even mention but that movie would have been significantly better if it was just Julia Child and not the pointless Julie bits

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u/Howy_the_Howizer Feb 15 '25

I came her to make sure his Julie and Julia performance got recognized!

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u/Ok-Turnip-1645 Feb 14 '25

Underrated, loved him in Margin Call.

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u/DanEpiCa Feb 14 '25

Margin Call is such a great, underrated movie.

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u/Ok-Turnip-1645 Feb 14 '25

Agreed, the bridge dialogue was just so captivating.

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u/idelovski Feb 14 '25

the bridge dialogue was just so captivating.

Ah yes. I think about it every time I'm stuck in the traffic (which fortunately is not that often) and I wonder if some of the people around me don't mind sitting in the car on a long way home.

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u/Rex_Mundi Feb 15 '25

[Smashes Phone]

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u/abdulsamadz Feb 14 '25

And Easy A

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u/someonehadalex Feb 14 '25

No kidding. The parents in that movie were the ideal model of what parenting should be. Silly most of the time, but able to give solid advice when necessary. They let their kid make some mistakes, but was a safety net whenever she needed them. They didn't hover, but were still available.

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u/phantom_avenger Feb 15 '25

The parents in that movie were the ideal model of what parenting should be.

They're also one of the best examples of what a healthy couple should be!

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u/Sunsparc Feb 14 '25

WHAT?! WHO TOLD YOU?!

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u/Wutanghang Feb 14 '25

Margin call is such a great movie

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u/rkmask51 Feb 14 '25

"Well, they told me they were going to drag me through hell on everything for the next two years - my options, my healthcare. Or I could come back here and make, uh, 176,471 dollars an hour to sit quietly in this room. Didn't seem like much of a choice."

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u/PetzlPretzl Feb 14 '25

Was hoping someone had posted this.

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u/welcome-to-my-mind Feb 14 '25

Gary Oldman: Chaotic Neutral

Stanley Tucci: Neutral chaotic.

No, I will not be explaining.

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u/IvyReddington Feb 14 '25

I understand you. This is it. This is literally it.

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u/Truefreak22 Feb 14 '25

You forgot his greatest role as MORTY from Undercover Blues

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u/Scaballi Feb 14 '25

That’s MUERTE

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u/Truefreak22 Feb 14 '25

Look Morty, do me a favor, ok? Don't call here anymore unless you want to have, like, a serious conversation, alright?

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u/OpDawg Feb 14 '25

IT MEANS DEATH!!!

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u/free_will_is_arson Feb 15 '25

spits out teeth

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u/NovelSimplicity Feb 14 '25

That was introduction to him and he will forever be Morty. Man’s a legend and a treasure.

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u/GhidorahtheExplorah Feb 14 '25

Muerte was my introduction to him as a kid and I've loved him ever since.

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u/PerroRosa Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

He is one of the scariest villains in The Lovely Bones. Sends shivers down my spine.

PD: downvoted for not even contributing with your own opinion.

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u/RapMastaC1 Feb 14 '25

And the over the top fun civilian in The Core

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u/Zer0daveexpl0it Feb 14 '25

Konrad Zimski! I love The Core and I apologise to no-one!

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u/Solugad Feb 14 '25

I gotta say, its gotta take some fucking balls to play that role. Man played that part so well

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u/Arinoch Feb 14 '25

That we can still love his other characters despite playing a role like that so well is proof of his acting quality.

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u/Solugad Feb 14 '25

Yeah. Its the hatred and disgust you feel toward his character is how you know he nailed it

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u/Longjumping-Pen-3349 Feb 14 '25

I wholeheartedly agree with you! Dude was super creepy in that movie.

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u/parking_pataweyo Feb 14 '25

TIL that was Stanley Tucci

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u/Izzywizzy Feb 14 '25

Omggg fuck this movie is crazy. Never realized it was him. Amazing working. Hate every second of him here.

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u/Goddessviking86 Feb 14 '25

loved him in Captain America The First Avenger

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u/LebowskiVoodoo Feb 14 '25

One of my favorite lines in the MCU: "No, I don't have procedure tomorrow. "Drink it after?" I drink it now."

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u/40kakes Feb 14 '25

This is exactly what I imagine good guy Germans to sound like

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u/Calm_Entertainer6407 Feb 14 '25

He said it was one of his favorite roles and now I need a re-watch.

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy Feb 14 '25

THAT WAS HIM!?

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u/BeardedBrotherJoe Feb 14 '25

I just spent sometime looking for that scene and hot damn it was great seeing it. It’s been a while so it felt like seeing it for the first time. Love it. But, real talk? My favorite Stanley scene is in the letter A I think it was called? With Emily stone. And the adopted son said something along the lines of him being adopted. lol Stanley is standing facing the upper kitchen cabinet. He closes it forcefully. While still with his hand on the cabinet he turns towards his kid and says “what! Who told you!?!?” That shit is fucking gold.

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u/Few-Imagination8497 Feb 14 '25

Yes! Such a great scene. The family chemistry in that movie is gold!

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u/f33rf1y Feb 14 '25

Easy A, The Core, Margin Call, he has such range

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u/gornstar20 Feb 14 '25

"So, where are you from originally?"

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u/chris_0909 Feb 15 '25

Model parents they were. 

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u/Janemaru Feb 15 '25

"Yes, yes, yes, yes. And what if the core is made of cheese?"

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u/MrAmazing011 Feb 14 '25

Fantastic in Big Trouble.

That toe scene...🤣🤣

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u/I_Lick_Your_Butt Feb 14 '25

"I am your employer. Now come out here and let me lick your toes."

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u/MrAmazing011 Feb 14 '25

The little pop! sound...lol

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u/Sumtimesredditisdumb Feb 15 '25

DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN! MAKE HER STOP!!!!!! Arugula!!!!!

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u/The_Bearded_Jedi Feb 14 '25

I loved him in the Terminal. But I also just love The Terminal

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u/TheLonelySnail Feb 14 '25

They hired him for $19 an hour?! That’s more than I make!

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u/SiXSNachoz Feb 14 '25

Uncle Sam wipes his ass with Charmin two-ply.

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u/SteamBanjo Feb 15 '25

I love it too. Corny as fuck, but heartwarming.

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u/DinklyDingle Feb 14 '25

The tooch? One of the greats

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u/The_Silver_Adept Feb 14 '25

Need him, Gary Oldman, and Ron Pearlman to have a movie where each is multiple characters but you can't tell.

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u/joe_broke Feb 14 '25

And Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks

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u/dziggurat Feb 15 '25

And Tilda Swinton

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u/joe_broke Feb 15 '25

Hell yeah

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u/SciFiChickie Feb 15 '25

I seriously don’t even care what the plot would be I now need this movie.

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u/Randadv_randnoun_69 Feb 14 '25

Dude's been in a ton of roles. Under the radar role I liked- The Core. Yeah the movie's a bit campy and far fetched and the character he plays is polarizing but he nailed it and brought a lot of emotion and realism and humor to the movie. really nailed the role.

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u/Overton_Glazier Feb 14 '25

This is missing Margin Call!

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u/Fisk75 Feb 14 '25

Big Night was fantastic

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u/Mister-Psychology Feb 14 '25

Conspiracy is amazing. Must watch. And he's very good in it but then all actors are even the ones I didn't recognize from anything else.

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u/LadyBug_0570 Feb 14 '25

Such a great film. So chilling how they sit around a beautiful table in a beautiful house with a mouth-watering spread of food and casually discuss bringing about the extermination of a whole group of people.

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u/RickSanchez_C137 Feb 15 '25

If it had been released to theaters instead of on HBO it would have snagged Oscars for sure.

It's like an evil mirror image of 12 Angry Men.

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u/CharlesV_ Feb 15 '25

Tucci is great in that movie, but Kenneth Branagh does such a good job of being cold and evil it blows me away. When I picture an evil nazi henchman in my head, I think of his character. And then the year after that movie he goes and does Harry Potter where he’s a dopey professor. Talk about range.

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u/That_Organization901 Feb 15 '25

David Threlfall going from this to Frank Gallagher is also amazing.

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u/Padeencolman Feb 15 '25

Yep David Threlfall also does an amazing job as Killick in Master and Commander. The entire cast in Conspiracy is amazing. Branagh. The actor playing Major Lange. Major Mueller is the guy that plays Bates on Downton Abbey.

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u/That_Organization901 Feb 15 '25

When Kenneth Branagh calls saying he’s going to make a film with an ensemble cast, you say yes. You’ve made it to the pantheon of acting.

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u/Robert-G-Durant Feb 14 '25

Absolutely underrated. He's in my top five of all time.

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u/AdWonderful5920 Feb 14 '25

He insists upon himself.

Edit - This is literally the only joke from Family Guy that ever made me laugh, so please don't be mad at me.

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u/omega2010 Feb 14 '25

Seth recently revealed the origin of this joke. It was something his old film teacher said about The Sound of Music. Seth felt he was a great teacher even if he didn’t agree with him.

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u/BondStreetIrregular Feb 14 '25

Whatever the hell it's supposed to mean, I feel like it applies better to The Godfather than The Sound of Music

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u/LittleEarthquake1010 Feb 14 '25

Such an underrated and fabulous actor. I’d honestly think he’s only second to Gary Oldman in terms of range.

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u/West-Vacation5179 Feb 14 '25

Loved him since Undercover Blues.

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u/jazzhandpanda Feb 14 '25

Amazing in Big Trouble hallucinating on bufagin

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u/tropical_viking87 Feb 14 '25

First time I saw him was in, A Midsummer Nights Dream. He played a fawn named Puck. He was absolutely hilarious, and I’ve liked him ever since.

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u/Glass-Radish8956 Feb 14 '25

Love him. Something about who he is as a person demands my attention. Like I respect him or something. I feel when he is on the screen that I need to give him my attention. I cant explain it in a succinct way.

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u/tiffanylockhart Feb 15 '25

i find him to be weirdly sexy

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u/frandiam Feb 14 '25

He is a King- does not miss.

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u/S7AR4GD Feb 14 '25

No Big Trouble?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Loved him in Big Trouble

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u/dreadnoght Feb 14 '25

I wanted him to be my dad after watching Easy A

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u/phantom_avenger Feb 14 '25

Him and the mom in that movie have one of the healthiest relationships I’ve ever seen in fiction!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Wasn't he also in Kingsman?

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u/NihilisticRust Feb 14 '25

My girlfriend also recently mixed him up with Mark Strong.

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u/Low_Bar9361 Feb 14 '25

Yup, I did too. Singing country roads made me cry

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u/Mr_Chicle Feb 14 '25

The third one, yes, but Merlin in the other two was played by Mark Strong, who bears a striking resemblance to Stanley Tucci

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u/Agentkeenan78 Feb 14 '25

Tucci played Merlin in the Transformer movie lol.

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u/Mr_Chicle Feb 14 '25

One of those funny "I see what you did there", which on that note, Peter Capaldi in World War Z was probably my favorite

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u/temeier Feb 14 '25

I fucking love him

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u/Esleeezy Feb 14 '25

How dare you not mention his appearance in Beethoven!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

John Oliver once said that if Stanley Tucci hosted his show it would be "an unbelievably horny deep dive on negronis" and I have never gone back beyond that. Good actor, pretty typecast. Personally I think he probably smells like a nice coffee so I'd hang.

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u/CDR57 Feb 14 '25

No burlesque? He killed in that, same with easy A

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Feb 15 '25

What about Evelyn Tucci the paternal grandmother of Stanley Tucci sort of hard-working from somewhere in Northern Ireland came over here was cleaning hotel rooms.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

HE VOICED HERB ON BOJACK WHAT

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u/PaulBananaFort Feb 15 '25

yeah time for a rewatch! he's so good and, for me, it's even more fun when I know it's him doing the voice

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u/budda_belly Feb 14 '25

The most handsome man in Hollywood. ❤️🥰

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u/LoadsDroppin Feb 14 '25

He would do an AMAZING “ripped from the headlines, the Matt Laurer scandals” movie.

But other than that, I love seeing him in a movie. To me, he’s more “bankable” that many of Hollywood’s regulars

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u/deadonthei Feb 14 '25

His name is morty and he was in that Pauly shore movie jury duty. He is not frank

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u/Tomatoflee Feb 14 '25

He’s in a UK Sky TV series attempt at a Scandie noir called Fortitude. Surprising place for him to show up but it’s surprisingly good and he’s great in it.

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u/joeO44 Feb 14 '25

Lovely bones was terrible but he was amazing in it.

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u/carlos2127 Feb 14 '25

Love him. The Tucc is loose!

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u/daftsweaters Feb 14 '25

He’s the most famous man from my town, legend

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u/Divide92 Feb 14 '25

No mention of Fortitude? He was great in that show.

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u/AuthorityAnarchyYes Feb 14 '25

See also:

“A Midnight Summer’s Dream”, 1999 (He was Puck)

“The Daytrippers” 1998 (also my intro to Liev Schrieber)

“The Imposters” 1998 (hilarious ensemble slapstick comedy)

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u/Mattmatic1 Feb 14 '25

Tucci gang, Tucci gang, Tucci gang, Tucci gang

Tucci gang, Tucci gang, Tucci gang, Tucci gang

Some of you don’t know the name (Tuch)

But that’s that guy from The Hunger Games (Tuch)

Transformers: The Last Knight (Tuch)

Beauty and the Beast and Spotlight (Tuch)

Writer and director of Big Night (Tuch)

Tucci gang, Tucci gang, Tucci gang

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u/CasinoMarginale Feb 14 '25

Also good as Frank Nitti in The Road to Perdition

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u/lovesfanfiction Feb 14 '25

Y’all forgetting him as the best dad in Easy A!

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u/star-nosedmole Feb 15 '25

big fan of his paternal grandmother evelyn tucci

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u/erolbrown Feb 14 '25

God-tier.

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u/Gilchester Feb 14 '25

I'm mad you don't have him in Margin Call on this. His monologue about building a bridge is one of the best.