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“There’s a darker side, as there are with every country,” says Birmingham. “Italians are so focused on food and family, but what does family mean? That was what we wanted to look at in that story.”Tucci joins Ryan Reynolds, Emily Blunt and Blake Lively at a screening of “Another Simple Favor” in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tucci joins Ryan Reynolds, Emily Blunt and Blake Lively at a screening of “Another Simple Favor” in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)Tucci is part of a crowded field of celeb travel hosts, which includesEugene Levy, Zac Efron,

Chris Hemsworth, Will Smith, Macaulay Culkin andBirmingham believes her host has something special to offer.

“I think he’s particularly good at putting people at ease,” she says. “He is genuinely interested, and it is a real passion for him. He’s not hosting this series just to host it. He loves Italy more than any of us, and I think that’s really apparent.”

One of the series’ highlights is when Tucci visits Siena, a city in central Italy’s Tuscany region, and watches its medieval-era horse race run around the Piazza del Campo. Afterward, each city ward hosts a dinner party in the streets where thousands sing and toast their neighborhood.The feeling, Rowell explains is, “Oh my God, I can be a ballet dancer through Drucilla, a pull-up-by-the-bootstraps kind of chick that’s rough around the edges and that can learn how to read and write, perhaps, and meet a Neil Winters and get married and improve her life.”

Rowell says she always understood her role as “so much bigger” than an acting job. She recalls meeting with the then-editor of Soap Opera Digest to advocate for a cover featuring the Black cast members — and it ended up happening.Rowell’s tenure with the show, though, has been up and down. She has only glowing things to say about Bell, who died in 2005. But

after she says she pushed for the casting of more Black actors and wasn’t hired back on the soap as a result. They later settled. After “Beyond the Gates” was announced, Rowell says she received a letter from CBS acknowledging her place in the show’s DNA.“I have been contacted with great respect from the powers that be at CBS, thanking me for all of my hard work, recognizing the work that I have done that has influenced this moment and I appreciate that,” she said.