Stanley Tucci and the wife Felicity Blunt they started meeting – despite being 21 years apart.
“I wasn’t sure I was going to get married again,” Tucci, 65, said in an October 2024 interview with. Jenna Bush Hagerwhich aired on the Thursday, May 7, episode of her “Open Book With Jenna” podcast.
I The Devil Wears Prada ustar was married to the first wife Kate Tucci from 1995 until her death at the age of 47 following a battle with breast cancer in 2009. Before he died, the couple welcomed twins. Isabel again Nicolo26, and a daughter Camilla24.
In 2006, Stanley met his The Devil Wears Prada the costar Emily Bluntsister of Felicity, 45. The two reunited in 2010 at Emily’s wedding to another actor. John Krasinski. Stanley and Felicity tied the knot in 2012, and went on to welcome son Matteo, 11, and daughter Emilia, 8.
“I never thought I’d have kids again,” Stanley said on Thursday’s podcast episode. “And when I met [Felicity]it makes sense, even though there is this 21 year gap. And obviously, I knew his family … his sister was one of my best friends. And we just finished it. We had a lot in common even though we had nothing in common.”
Stanley added that Felicity has “changed [his] life” by giving him and his children “a sense of security.”
“And he’s fun. It’s like being with him is fun,” continued his wife, who works as a writing agent. “And he’s incredibly optimistic, which I don’t always have. He’s intelligent, I mean, his mind is amazing. His ability to find information, not just in a book, but in the world and process it, and turn it into something else is amazing. It’s amazing.”
Stanley also opened up about his age gap with Felicity when he was interviewed in September 2025 The Times of London.
“I’m sad that I won’t see him grow old and I won’t be able to take care of him if he needs to be looked after,” he said while admitting that he doesn’t mind being older than his wife. “I think there’s something really good about people growing old together. And unless there’s a miracle, that’s not going to happen.”
JC Olivera/Getty Images Emily Blunt is just one of the many talented members of her family. Before becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Emily grew up in South West London as the second oldest parent to Oliver Simon Peter Blunt and Joanna Blunt’s four children. The couple shares daughters Felicity and Susannah Blunt and son Sebastian […]
Elsewhere in Thursday’s podcast episode, Stanley admitted to being “scared” of death and aging after Kate’s death.
“When you lose someone you really love, and when I lost my wife, and you see that terrible struggle, and you see the effect it has on your children, on your family, on yourself, it never ends. And it robs you,” he explained. “It empowers you. You have to let it empower you. But I think there’s always a fear of death, but maybe even more so, because you know what it’s like. You know what it can be like. And that’s kind of a scary thing.”
