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Stanley Tucci on Losing Wife: ‘I’m Sad For My Children’

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The emotional fallout of losing a family member is the focus of The Lovely Bones, and it’s a state of being that Stanley Tucci knows all too well.

In a recent interview with NPR, the 49-year-old actor — who portrays serial killer George Harvey in the film adaptation of the bestselling book — opens up about what life has been like since losing wife Kate last year to cancer.

“There’s all the blaming of yourself, which you can’t do, but you kind of do,” he shares, “and I’m just — I’m mostly sad.”

“I’m sad for Kate that she can’t be here, and I’m sad for my children that they didn’t have the opportunity to spend more time with her because she was an extraordinary person.”

Twins Isabel and Nicolo, 9 ½, and Camilla, 7, were never far from Stanley’s mind as he shot the film. “Yes, two of them are daughters, and yes, I was very hesitant to take this role,” he says before adding,

“Not only because of them, but just because I don’t — I’m never — I don’t care to watch movies or read books or see documentaries about serial killers or child molesters or people who are both. I don’t — there’s too much of it around. I think America’s kind of obsessed with it.”

The Lovely Bones is in theaters January 15th.

Source: NPR

Matthew Broderick Reveals Approach to Paparazzi

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For Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, life in New York City often goes hand in hand with the paparazzi. That much is evident each and every time the couple walk their 7-year-old son James Wilkie to school.

“Particularly when Sarah walks him, there will be photographers that go with them the whole way,” says Matthew, who is also dad to 6-month-old twins Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge. “I’m hoping things will cool down by the time the twins are out and about, but I don’t know.”

The actor, 47, keeps his cool, even though it is difficult at times. “What I try to do consciously, if I can, is to not lose my temper or anything like that because I don’t want [James] to think it’s dangerous or be scared,” Matthew explains before adding,

“It can feel scary, guys running with big backpacks and throwing their bikes in the street and pointing their long lens at a 5-year-old. I don’t think it’s ideal, but I think you still have to get to school, and if you can sort of shrug it off, eventually it’ll play out.”

When all else fails, Matthew says that he and Sarah Jessica already have a Plan B to fall back on: “Maybe we’ll move,” he muses.

Source: New York Post