The 63-year-old US actor has been widely noted for his attractiveness in recent years, but joked that people around the world must have been "desperate" to label him as an object of beauty in the first place.
"I have no idea (how it happened). People must have been desperate is all I can say!" he has told Page Six.
The Devil Wears Prada star attained his new status when he was making cocktails at home during the COVID-19 lockdowns and, as a result, he then fronted the Emmy Award-winning docuseries Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy for CNN.
Tucci is pleased to now be able to do a "mix" of things in his career, including a brand new cookbook titled What I Ate In One Year.
"That fact that I'm able to still go and do movies and all that stuff and television, it's a nice mix, Tucci said.
"A cookbook is something I've always wanted to do. My parents had really great taste and always talked about the cookware … I always wanted to design something."
The Captain America: The First Avenger actor - who is married to Felicity Blunt and has Matteo, nine and Emilia, six, with her as well as twins Isabel and Nicolo, 24, and Camilla Tucci with his late wife Kate - previously insisted he had no feelings of resentment towards his new status as a Hollywood sex symbol and actually felt "glad" it had all happened.
"Who goes, 'I feel terrible about that'? People think I'm sexy? How awful'," Tucci told People.
"It's wonderful. I don't get it, but I'm very glad."
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