Stanley Tucci Says “He Couldn’t Get A Job” After ‘The Devil Wears Prada’: “I Went & Did Stuff That I Didn’t Necessarily Want To Do”

Stanley Tucci is opening up about the time after starring in The Devil Wears Prada, the 2006 David Frankel film in which he co-starred with Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Anne Hathaway.

In a new interview, Tucci revealed he had difficulty booking another job after the film despite the box office success it had.

“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,” Tucci told Vanity Fair. “So I went and did stuff that I didn’t necessarily want to do, but I did it.”

Tucci noted that in his career he has “always gone through these fluctuations, and sometimes it’s just the business. Sometimes it was personal reasons why you can’t work.”

“Having been sick six years ago, that threw a wrench into the works for a while, and then you slowly get back,” he continued. “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.”

After The Devil Wears Prada, Tucci starred in films like Julie & Julia (2009), The Lovely Bones (2009), Easy A (2010), Burlesque (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Hunger Games (2012), and Gambit (2012), to name a few.

Tucci’s new film is Conclave, in which he plays Cardinal Bellini and shares the screen with Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, and many more.