Steve Carell - Ten Things
by LiRa
I thoroughly enjoyed this article from UK’s Digital Spy on ten things Steve Carell facts we never knew. I really didn’t. Well, on some of it at least. I knew that he used to be a postman and he aspired to be a lawyer. Everything else … it was great to read about it!
Here are five:
Steve is the youngest of four brothers born in Acton, Massachusetts to a psychiatric nurse mum and electrical engineer dad. - Steve’s paternal grandfather was Italian and his dad was born with the surname Caroselli, which he changed to Carell before the comedian was born. Steve says of the more exotic moniker: “Frankly I almost wish I’d grown up with it because it would have been misspelled far less frequently [than Carell]. Everyone puts in two Rs and two Ls.”
- Steve felt the pressure when he tried out for Ricky Gervais’s role in the US version of The Office. He says: “When I was invited to audition for Michael Scott, people treated me as if I had a disease. They said, ‘You have to be crazy even auditioning for this, Steve. It’s going to be terrible.” It’s fair to say he had the last laugh after the show scooped a fistful of awards.
- Steve had his chest waxed for real in 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin because he wanted his reactions to look as real as possible. Ouch!
- Steve insists that he enjoyed working with children and animals in 2007’s Evan Almighty, despite flouting one of the cardinal rules of acting. He recalls: “They do what animals do, they don’t smell particularly good, and they sometimes want to attack you when you raise your voice. The baboons took umbrage, shall I say, when I improvised with them.” Eek!
But there’s five more over Digital Spy.
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