The 1996 movie Stanley Tucci made to spite the industry: “It’s not interesting”There’s a whole generation now who know Stanley Tucci as a kind of silver-tongued TikTok chef these days, who might not have a clue that he was an Oscar-nominated actor back in the day, but such is life now we live it through a prism of social media. He co-wrote, co-directed and took the lead in Big Night, the story of immigrant brothers working in the restaurant business in New Jersey in the 1950s. He told CBS about his choice to move away from mafiosos, saying, “I didn’t want to play that person all the time; it’s not interesting. There are brilliant movies made about the mafia, but how often do they come along? Most of them are just sort of cheap rip-offs of the brilliant movies.”