Light and Dark: Tucci Goes There

Stanley Tucci talks to the LA Times about the darkness of The Lovely Bones:

“My wife had read the book,” Tucci said. “I can’t read anything that’s about a kid that gets raped or whatever. I can’t deal with that. And I had difficulty accepting the role. I really did. I told Peter I may not see this movie. I can’t handle stuff like this.”

He then explains how he could go from the lightness of Julie & Julia to the darkness of “Bones”:

“I think there are all these different people inside of us,” Tucci said. “Every person is a multiple personality, and people role-play when they go to work, in their relationships. I think of the classic example of the librarian who lets her hair down. There are personalities that everyone has, and actors just have decided we’re going to explore as many as possible before we die — in front of people.”

Stanley Tucci’s wife died earlier this year. The ups and downs of life are hard to fathom sometimes.