John Lithgow went to a wine shop in Italy with Stanley Tucci and the locals freaked out: “Ralph Fiennes and I felt like extras in Gandhi”
nme.comRalph Fiennes – but in Italy, Lithgow himself was a “nobody”.The three all appear in the mystery thriller film Conclave and Tucci had previously worked on a food and travel series called Searching For Italy in the country.
During a break from filming, the three went into a wine shop to buy some wine for a party.“It made you feel like a total nobody to walk down the streets of Rome with Stanley,” remarked Lithgow. “On the way home from work one day, at like 6:30 p.m., we stopped off to buy some wine.
We’d all been invited to the same party, so Stanley, Ralph Fiennes, and I went into a wine shop.“We just had the car stop and let us out, and we went in to buy wine for the hostess.
And Stanley, of course, bought about eight bottles of wine. And everybody in that store, customers and service people alike, they [behaved] like a Beatle had walked into their door.”He added: “Ralph and I felt like extras in Gandhi — absolutely no attention was paid!
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