Stanley Tucci loses appetite during chemotherapy: 'Everything tasted like wet cardboard'
"If you can't eat and enjoy food, how are you going to enjoy everything else? It was hard for me because I couldn't swallow everything," he said.
Famous actor Stanley Tucci, who the audience has had the opportunity to watch in numerous films such as "The Devil Wears Prada", "The Hunger Games", "Spotlight" and others, did not want to reveal for three years that he was battling a tongue tumor. Now, in an interview with the New York Times, Tucci spoke about his illness, chemotherapy, but also revealed that he lost something very precious to him - his appetite.
The 60-year-old actor lost his taste during illness and chemotherapy and admitted that everything tasted like 'wet cardboard coated in someone's excrement.' He added that he had the greatest fear of losing his sense of taste. "I mean, if you can't eat and enjoy food, how are you going to enjoy everything else? It was hard for me because I could taste everything, but I couldn't swallow it," said the actor, who recalled how hard it was for him to eat a Florentine steak.
"I had to chew it for 10 minutes for the food to slide down my throat. Sometimes I just had to get rid of the food," he reveals.
Despite his difficult condition, he didn’t want to stop working on CNN’s show “Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy”. "There was no chance I would fail. For a long time, I wanted to tell the story of Italy and the different cuisines of each Italian region," Tucci said.
This interview was held on the occasion of the promotion of his new book “Taste: My Life Through Food”, which should be published this week. The book is described as unconventional memoirs in which Tucci writes about many things, including the horrible food he had to eat on film sets.
"The only thing that makes Italian cuisine bearable is that wine is always served as well. Tragic for a country that is a culinary prophet," he adds.
Asked why he didn't mention his acting career at all in the book, Tucci replied that it was "all terribly boring stuff."
“You go through life, you have some vision of your own, and then all of a sudden some completely different good thing happens, like some trailer tied to you, and you’re heading in a different direction,” the actor explained.
By: Amber V. - Gossip Whispers
