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 Steve Carell
Spotlight By: Stephen Snart
Few contemporary comic actors can match the credibility and marketability of Jim Carrey and thus attempting to follow in his footsteps is a mighty daunting endeavor; in Evan Almighty, the sequel to the 2003 blockbuster Bruce Almighty, Steve Carell attempts to do just that. Others have tried before. Eric Christian Olsen tried doing a Jim Carrey impression for 80 minutes in Dumb and Dumberer and Jamie Kennedy gave a sedated go at it in Son of the Mask. Needless to say, both films were monumental failures. But if there’s one comic actor working today who can pull of such a gargantuan feat, it’s Steve Carell. Carell himself is completely upfront about his immense adoration for the rubber faced funny man and the enormous duty of taking over the reins of the Almighty franchise. “To have even been in Bruce Almighty and to be in scenes with him was a real thrill and honor for me. Even if I’m unfavorably compared to Jim Carrey, I take that as a compliment.” He vividly remembers the shock and amazement he felt when Bruce and Evan director Tom Shadyac revealed he was being courted to take over the lead role in the sequel. “I thought that he was going to pitch the idea of the sequel starring Jim and maybe featuring me as another sort of thorn in his side kind of character. And then when he said well we’d like you to play the title role. I was like..." Carell stammers for a moment, "You had me at hello. I was totally there." When asked what specifically got him so excited about the project, he answers with a name. ““Well mostly because of Tom. The first movie I ever did was Bruce Almighty and Tom took very good care of me. It was funny; when I went to the premiere of that I had no idea if I was going to be in the final cut... I remember going and sitting there and there my scene was in tact! I had so much fun doing it and it was sort of a dream,” he recalls nostalgically. “A couple years before I got the part I remember watching Liar Liar [also directed by Shadyac] and I was watching the outtakes and Jim Carrey was just making everybody laugh. Two years later I was doing Bruce Almighty and it was exactly that. And then I was in the outtakes! The chance to work with Tom again, sort of on a one-on-one basis was kind of a dream come true.” As Evan Almighty has transitioned from the PG-13 rating of the predecessor to a family targeting PG, the sequel risks garnering the reputation of being a kids’ film. But Carell is quick to discredit the PG rating as a hindrance to the film’s brand of humor. “I wouldn’t say it’s a kids’ movie. I think it’s…” he ... |
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