How Stanley Tucci Bossed the Pandemic

Blair Haring
3 min readMar 9, 2021

And you can too!

@stanleytucci on Instagram

Tucci, his wife, their two small children, a boy, 5, and a girl, 2; his three older children, a girl, 18, boy/girl twins, 20; and a girlfriend who was unable to leave the country, were confined to the Tucci home in London at the start of lockdown. Knowing that fact alone, I don’t know how he managed to accomplish much of anything, but somehow he is entering 2021 with even greater popularity.

He took full advantage of his time at home. Here’s how he did it, and how you still can!

March 2020: Contracts COVID

Back at the beginning of 2020, Tucci lost his sense of taste and smell for about five days, experiencing only these minor symptoms. His wife, Felicity Blunt, had no symptoms at all, and Tucci’s older children also only had light symptoms. His mother also contracted the virus, but thankfully, not his 90-year-old father.

Let’s not add this particular occurrence to our to-do list but keep this fact in the back of our minds when we see how he hit 2020 with a sledgehammer-like attitude.

April 2020: His Negroni video goes viral (along with his biceps)

The original intent of this video was to cheer up his wife’s coworkers. He had no intention of posting it on social media. But when his assistant posted it to…

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Blair Haring

Writer and Proofreader. Reader of Romance. Soccer Supporter. Mental health advocate. Trivia nerd. Figuring out my authentic self.