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Posted on 10/04/2021 4:32:47 PM PDT by Trillian
Stanley Tucci is opening up about his cancer treatments, and how he lost something very precious to him: his appetite.
The 60-year-old actor revealed in September that he was diagnosed with cancer three years earlier, after a tumor was found at the base of his tongue.
He revealed in a wide-ranging interview with New York Times that everything he ate during that time tasted like, 'wet cardboard slathered with someone's excrement.'
He added that his biggest fear was losing his sense of taste, adding, 'I mean, if you can’t eat and enjoy food, how are you going to enjoy everything else?'
'It was hard because I could taste everything, but I couldn’t necessarily swallow,” he added, recalling a time he tried a Florentina steak.
'I had to chew it for 10 minutes to get it down my throat … [sometimes] I just had to get rid of the food,' he added.
Still, despite this unfortunate condition, he didn't want to stop working on his CNN show Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy.
'There was no way I wasn’t going to make it. I wanted to tell for a long time the story of Italy and the disparate cuisine in every region,' Tucci said.
The interview was to promote his new novel Taste: My Life Through Food, which will be published on Tuesday.
The book is described as an unconventional memoir where he writes about many things, including the dreadful food he's eaten on film sets.
'The only thing that makes Italian set catering bearable is that wine is always served. Tragic for a country that is a culinary oracle,' he said.
When asked why he didn't discuss his acting career at all in the book, Tucci added, 'All that’s terribly boring stuff.'
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I lost my sense of taste after acquiring the China virus. It appears to be slowly coming back. Crunchy Cheetos tasted/felt like dust in my mouth. Stronger, spicer flavors are starting to break through. But I cannot bear to use the toothpaste I’ve been using for years.
He was great in Undercover Blues.
He was also the MC/host in the Hunger Game movies.
That is awful. I’m glad things returned to normal for you.
Never saw it.
Good actor, good cook. Have one of his cookbooks. He really is very good cook.
Magic Mouthwash is a mucositis with Lidocaine (sort of Chloraseptic on steroids). I’ve been in Radiation treatments for throat cancer all summer and sometimes the Magic Mouthwash was the only way to swallow (even water and the river of Ensure). As treatments progressed it was often followed by a snort of liquid hydrocodone and eventually Elixir of Morphine. The author’s description food tasting like “wet cardboard” would have been an improvement for me. The solid food I manage to choke down with the help of Marinol resembles dry sawdust.
The Big Night. Hunger Games. The Devil Wears Prada. The Lovely Bones. He a good actor and seems like a decent human being.
a mixture of codeine and anti fungals and anti-inflamitory stuff mixed together at your pharmacy
my lips were in shreds and my mouth/throat was so raw and sore i couldn’t eat or swallow much of anything
it was the codeine what did it though...
look it up as there are several concoctions but all need a script
As I said, there are many actors out there who play innumerable parts and manage to stay unrecognized.
Ah, ok. I had two surgeries on my throat and they never gave me anything for that. I just suffered through it all. I remember how hard it was to even take a drink.
Lost my appetite after chemo. Never really came back. I have stayed trimmer since then. Sweets and alcohol aren’t supposed to be major food groups - I think.
That is awful that they were destroyed. My oncologist told me drinking a lot and sucking on hard candies would lessen the chance of that happening after the radiation.
I'm wondering what his oncologist told him. I know he was hospitalized at one point because he had a bad reaction to the chemo. The one thing I haven't understood is how the husband's facial features changed so drastically. When I first saw him after his treatments were done, I didn't recognize him, and I've known them for over 40+ years. We lived next to each other when our kids were little. Thanks be to God, he's been cancer-free for over 5 years now.
Risotto a few decades early :)
While I can make a guess at his politics, I don’t know them. I do, however, recall meeting him once as part of a group who went to see a friend in a local-ish production he’d joined in as a guest actor. Afterwards, he made us all feel welcome as well as entertained, and traded some good-natured jabs at some things that didn’t go as planned during the play.
Don’t feed the lazy trolls.
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