{"id":270759,"date":"2019-04-05T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1030202"},"modified":"2019-04-05T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:30:40","slug":"steve-buscemi-thanks-late-wife-for-being-his-biggest-inspiration-at-cinemacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/steve-buscemi-thanks-late-wife-for-being-his-biggest-inspiration-at-cinemacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Buscemi Thanks Late Wife For Being His &#8221;Biggest Inspiration&#8221; at CinemaCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.898148148148\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019011\/rs_634x1024-190111170341-634.jo-andres-steve-buscemi.ct.011119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jo Andres, Steve Buscemi\" alt=\"Jo Andres, Steve Buscemi\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jim Spellman\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.63687150838\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/steve_buscemi\">Steve Buscemi<\/a><\/strong>is paying tribute to his late wife&nbsp;<strong>Jo Andres<\/strong>&nbsp;in his acceptance speech for the Icon Award at CinemaCon.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have grown to know and love the&nbsp;<em>Boardwalk Empire<\/em> star since he started his career in the &#8217;80s, but Steve says that his success wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the&nbsp;love of his wife and family. &#8220;I do want to thank my family that&#8217;s been so supportive: my parents, my brothers, also my son, and also my wife, Jo,&#8221; the Icon Award winner earnestly tells the audience at the Colosseum at Caesar&#8217;s Palace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For over 30 years, the actor and&nbsp;his wife, who was an artist and filmmaker, lived and worked together in perfect bliss, something that even Buscemi believes is a rare accomplishment in the world of entertainment. He muses, &#8220;You know this business can be a challenge to relationships, but you know you stick it out and there are rewards. And I&#8217;m so grateful to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>The 61-year-old shares that Jo was his &#8220;biggest supporter, and also audience, and my biggest inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.656976744186\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.9418604651163\">\n<p>Jo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1004486\/steve-buscemi-s-wife-jo-andres-dead-at-65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unexpectedly died<\/a> at the age of 65 in January.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/16\/obituaries\/jo-andres-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the New York Times<\/em>, the artist died due to sclerosis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by Steve and their son,<strong>&nbsp;Lucian<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1030202\/steve-buscemi-thanks-late-wife-for-being-his-biggest-inspiration-at-cinemacon?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Spellman\/WireImage Steve Buscemiis paying tribute to his late wife&nbsp;Jo Andres&nbsp;in his acceptance speech for the Icon Award at CinemaCon. Fans have grown to know and love the&nbsp;Boardwalk Empire star since he started his career in the &#8217;80s, but Steve says that his success wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the&nbsp;love of his wife and family. 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