Stanley Tucci remembers post-‘Devil Wears Prada’ struggles: “I couldn’t get a job”

Stanley Tucci has revealed that he struggled to “get a job” after starring in The Devil Wears Prada.

The actor played Nigel in the 2006 movie alongside Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which enjoyed success at the box office and earned two Oscars.

Despite the film’s success, Tucci said he struggled to secure roles after telling Vanity Fair in a new interview: “After The Devil Wears Prada, I couldn’t get a job, and I didn’t quite understand that, but that’s just the way it was. So I went and did stuff that I didn’t necessarily want to do, but I did it.”

Although he appeared in films for the next couple of years, it wasn’t until 2009 that he featured in anything high profile such as Julie & Julia and Peter Jackson‘s The Lovely Bones, the latter of which earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars.

Tucci went on to say that his acting career has “always gone through these fluctuations, and sometimes it’s just the business. Sometimes it was personal reasons why you can’t work.”

He added: “Having been sick six years ago, that threw a wrench into the works for a while, and then you slowly get back. But I had to start doing things. I needed to work because I needed money. I probably started working too soon. I didn’t really have the energy to do it after the treatments, but you had to do it, and eventually you climb back up again.”

Tucci has gone on to star in a host of high-profile film and TV roles including The Hunger Games movies, Spotlight and Citadel.

Meanwhile, a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada was recently reported to be in the works with Streep and Blunt reprising their roles as Miranda Priestly and Emily Charlton.

Tucci is yet to confirm whether he will be appearing in the forthcoming film, but it is thought that Hathaway will not be returning.

He is currently starring in the thriller Conclave, which is released in the US this Friday (October 25) before it comes to UK cinemas on November 29.

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