Watching The Office

If there is one thing so noticeable about the Carell/Hathaway pair up is that these two have so much screen chemistry together. I think they look good as a movie couple.

The interview from Reuters…

Q: Above all, this film is obviously a very penetrating analysis of cold war politics.

Steve Carell (deadpan serious): "It is, very. It’s also an action comedy."

Anne Hathaway: "I’d describe it as "comtion.""

Carell: "When we first discussed it, we wanted it to be a legitimate spy movie that’s also funny. I wanted it to hold up, with characters that could potentially exist and situations that had stakes to them … we are not people you’d normally see in an action movie, and I think that’s part of the comedy."

Q: Do you feel like you’re the Tracy & Hepburn of action movies now?

Carell: "We are. I don’t think that’s overstating it."

Hathaway: "He’s right! (To Carell) You DO remind me of Katherine Hepburn, and I’m just like Spencer Tracy."

Q: You’re obviously both very competitive, both on screen and off. Have you ever come to blows?

Carell: "We…"

Hathaway: (cuts in) "I think I’m more comfortable with it. I know what my strengths are, and you just can’t compete with Steve’s ass."

Carell: "That quote will look great in print."

Q: More seriously, how was making out in the love scenes?

Hathaway: "The day we made out, I had a sinus infection and conjunctivitis. So it was basically as sexy as mucus."

Carell: "I was unaware of her infections. When we shot that scene, the light was going and we could only do it once. Luckily the heat of the moment - and the conjunctivitis …"

Hathaway: "Put us in the mood."

Carell: "But it was more of a fever than a heat."

Q: You both do stunts and action scenes. Who’s fitter?

Carell: "Anne, by a long shot."

Hathaway: "I don’t know about that. We’d run into each other in the gym, and you worked out much longer than I did."

Carell: "I remember watching the playback of one big fight scene and the whole time I thought it was her stunt double, but it was her. So she carries it off quite well."

Hathaway: "Thank you. Can you tell me that story every night before I go to bed?"