The Hunger Games Interview With Stanley Tucci

by Shannon Vestal 1

Stanley Tucci stars in next week's super highly anticipated The Hunger Games as eccentric host Caesar Flickerman, but when the actor stopped by Chelsea Lately last night, he admitted that he didn't know about the books at all until the film role came up. He mentions his fiancée is a literary agent who convinced him to check out the series, and Tucci says that now that he has read them, he's found them "very compelling." Watch to see what else he says about rocking Flickerman's outlandish look.

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