Steve Carell News

Steve Carell was the last member officially added to the Frat Pack so it seems fitting we made him our last Frat Pack member for Reel Movie Stars.

Steve Carell's career was started bring a correspondent The Daily Show, but it truly sky rocketed thanks to his starring roles in The 40 Year Old Virgin and on the television series, The Office.

We decided to give Carell some Reel treament with 9 films, 8 pictures, and one heck of a biography.

Now for some fun Carell trivia you may not have known:

• Was breifly a post office worker in Massachusetts where he delivered mail from his own car
• Provides the voice of Gary in The Ambigulously Gay Duo cartoons alongside fellow The Daily Show alumn Stephen Colbert
• While a member of the Chicago troupe The Second City, Stephen Colbert was his understudy
• Is a skilled ice skater and played goaltender as a kid.  Still plays in a league in Los Angeles
• Married to Nancy Walls who he met as his student in his improve class
• His wife, Nancy, briefly played his girlfriend on the show The Office
• Has two children, daughter Elisabeth and son John

Now enjoy this photo montage from our final Frat Packer being featured as a Reel Movie Star:

Here's a comedic duo we can't wait to watch in action:

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are set to play a married couple in Date Night, a 20th Century Fox comedy to be directed by Shawn Levy.

According to Variety, the plot follows a couple who find their routine date night becomes much more than just dinner and a movie.

The starting production date is unclear at the moment, as the film must be scheduled around Carell's sitcom The Office and Fey's 30 Rock.

Levy is currently shooting Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, while Carell recently starred in Get Smart and Fey appeared in Baby Mama.

With Get Smart opening this weekend, stars Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway sat down with MovieWeb to discuss the comedy. Here are excerpts from the interview:

Did you guys watch the original TV show before diving head first into this endeavor?
Steve Carell: I steered clear of it. I didn't want to do an impression of Don Adams. I figured there was no way to improve upon what he had done. I thought the more I watched him, the more I would be inclined to do an impersonation. He was so good and so definitive in that role. I sort of backed away from it.

Anne Hathaway: I actually grew up watching the show on "Nick at Nite". I used to love it, so it was really fun to revisit that. I was one of the last people cast, so I missed the whole collaboration of it. The: "This is the movie we're making" part of it. I wanted to make sure that I understood what tone we were trying to achieve. I think we've managed to have that silly, sweet, yet sophisticated feel that the original series had.

Get Smart opens on June 20.

As rumors of Anchorman 2 persist, at least one actor from the hilarious original says he'd reprise his role in a San Diego minute.

"I've heard some inklings as to what Adam McKay has in mind for a sequel, and it's really funny," Steve Carel said. "But I couldn't say anything more than that."

How excited would you be to see Brick Tamland again in Anchorman 2?!?

The actor added that he "can't wait to find out" what Channel Four News weatherman Brick Tamland is up to these days, also saying that he loves his co-stars from that film almost as much as he loves lamp.

"Everybody's a friend," he said of David Koechner, Paul Rudd and others. "That is one of the most fun things I ever did. I laughed until I cried, every day on that movie."

Carell can next be seen in Get Smart, which opens on June 20.

The good people at ComingSoon.net went on the set of Get Smart recently.

They spoke to stars Steve Carell and Dwayne Johnson. Check out the full article now, and read below to get these actors' takes on the project...

Carell talked about the honor of being offered such an iconic role:

"When Warner Bros. initially called me in, I thought I was coming in to audition. I heard that Will (Ferrell) had been attached. For some reason or another, he was no longer attached and that they were looking for somebody else," he said.

"They just came out and said, 'We'd like you to play Maxwell Smart.' And it was one of those moments I could not believe, it was one of those quintessential life career moments that was like, 'What the hell is happening? How did this come to pass?' So I've been pinching myself ever since then. It's great and it's been ever since then," Carell added.

Both he and Johnson, the former WWE star known as The Rock, were long time fans of the original series.

"I was a big fan, absolutely," Johnson said. "I like any type of comedy that is physical, self-deprecating comedy. I love that because I think, if you are really trying to be cool, then it's hard to be funny, like really funny.

The way Don Adams played that, very self-deprecating, giving himself up for the joke, I love that. And the gadgets were pretty cool too, which you see in this movie, updated ones, too."

In an audio interview with IESB.net, Steve Carell said that before he earned the the role of Maxwell Smart, both Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell were considered for the starring turn in Get Smart.

The Office star recalled going to Warner Brothers for a reading about three years ago:

"It was the most surreal moment, because I went in thinking I was just going to audition for a role. I didn't expect them to offer me the part of Maxwell Smart."

Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway star in Get Smart, bumbling its way into theaters on June 20, 2008.

Listen to the full interview now.

Steve Carell isn't always in an office.

In the upcoming comedy, Dan in Real Life, the hilarious actor stars as a widower who pens an advice column for a living. The catch, of course? This guy could use a bit of advice himself.

Below, Carell, discusses the film with MovieWeb...

Q: You seem to get the drama really well, as well as the comedy.
Steve Carell: Oh thanks. I guess I don't look at them differently, so that's part of it. I don't approach something as a comedy or as a drama. I don't think there's like a switch that you flip and you go into your dramatic face or you go into your comedic face. I think it's sort of all one. You just, you try to figure out what sort of tone the director's looking for, and try to listen to the other people there and get a sense of where you are and who you are.

Q: Did you learn a lot of this from Second City TV?
Steve Carell: I think. Yeah. I mean I think one of the [main parts] of at least decent improvisation is to listen, first and foremost. And ... I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.

Q: Is this and Little Miss Sunshine important to get people out of the idea that it's just for the laugh really?
Steve Carell: Well, I don't look at it that way. I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing. I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.

Read the full interview here.