On performing with Christian Bale and Amy Adams in ViceĮsquire: You’ve done a lot of improvisation on your past films with Adam McKay. I didn’t feel the need to overdo with the performance. I think movies like this can become very manipulative, and it was important not to do that-I mean the material was powerful enough. He wasn’t trying to elicit any sort of response. He wasn’t trying to do more than he needed to do. He was listening - as an actor he was listening. SC: It might have been the diner scene What was so special about it he was just there. As soon as we started doing together, at least from my perspective, we knew instantly that he was exactly the right person. Man, I’ve never seen someone nail an audition like he nailed that audition. On working with Timothée Chalamet in Beautiful BoyĮsquire: Tell me about working with Timothée. But yeah, it was important to learn some of that stuff, to learn how your body moved.
And, yes, I took movement classes and dance, but it was never anything that I studied with any sort of intensity.
I played around with some mime, like, in high school. No, I think training probably would have helped. Don’t you have to be skilled to be that bad?Įsquire: They say that, but you're a natural?
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If you've ever seen me in a film or on TV dancing, it's pretty apparent that I've never really had training.Įsquire: But isn’t hard to dance deliberately badly? I always thought one of the greatest physical performances ever was Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing her famous awful dance on that episode of Seinfeld. Did you ever had any dance or mime training, anything like that? Does that come into this at all? I liked it.Įsquire: I would think that’s a particularly physically nuanced kind of acting. It's just an enormous room with sensors and cameras all over the place. And it's silly, too, because all of the actors are walking around in these ridiculous unitards with ping-pong balls attached to them. I mean, all of is make-believe, but this is really, really make-believe. You see a tennis ball and you just have to imagine that it's a Nazi platoon that's about to attack you. Steve Carell: I feel like you either really like it or you hate it. On doing motion capture for the first time-and admitting to having had some actual mime trainingĮsquire : Had you ever done motion capture work before you shot Welcome to Marwen ? He also talked about working with Christian Bale for the film Vice (due out December 10 Bale and Carell play Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld respectively) and his first stab at motion capture-the digital technology that allowed Andy Serkis to play Golem and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movies-for his new Robert Zemeckis film Welcome to Marwen (out December 21). (The magazine insisted it be finite.) So below, some outtakes from our interview, including Carell’s first account of shooting his final scene on The Office. Spoiler: he's a generous, funny, and thoughtful man.īut there was a lot we talked about that didn’t make it into the article. I did, and you can read all about it in Esquire’s November cover story. Easy to f*** with.It’s not every day you get to sit down for nearly three hours with Steve Carell over lunch at a slightly musty 70-year-old restaurant in Burbank that still serves shrimp Louie. “Everyone was f****** with me… I guess because I was high. “I was a real target,” responded Jennifer Lawrence, who earlier said that Jonah Hill teased her that their co-star Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance, was upset with her. It would be too mean.’ So I left you alone.” I think I have a monologue idea for you.’ And I would look at Jen and was like, ‘I can’t do it. And I was like, ‘No, you can get high.’”Īdam McKay continued, “I kept turning to my script supervisor, Cate Hardman, and was like, ‘I just want to say, ‘Hey Jen.
Because my character was getting high in the movie.” McKay added, “So Jen was like, ‘Are you gonna throw me some improv?,’ which we always do. “You were not pregnant,” agreed McKay before asking her permission to make the revelation, “Can I say this?” Jennifer Lawrence said, “I think so, just nobody tell my mother-in-law.
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