Podcast: Stanley Tucci on ‘Tucci on Italy,’ the CNN Snub That Led Him to Nat Geo, and Possible Spinoffs in Other Countries

The beloved character actor says that his interest in hosting a food-centric program accelerated, ironically, when he couldn't eat at all due to treatment for oral cancer: "It was a really scary time. I lost 30 pounds. I could barely walk. You're on morphine for a while because the pain in your mouth is so excrutiating. It was horrible."

By Scott Feinberg