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STAR-CROSSED LOVERS

STANLEY TUCCI & COLIN FIRTH spent a lot of time together filming Supernova in England’s Lake District, a mountainous region made famous by Romantic poets like William Wordsworth.

Even after a full day of filming the story of Tusker (Tucci) and Sam (Firth), a gay couple grappling with Tusker’s dementia diagnosis while on a road trip through the countryside, the pair sought each other out. Each evening, Tucci invited Firth over to his riverside bungalow for cocktails and a dinner he prepared, as there were no major restaurants or pubs nearby.

“I never got tired of it for a second,” Tucci says of conversing with his costar. Even taking the train back to London on weekends,

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