FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME IN `VIRGIN' SCENE STEALER STEVE CARELL IS THE MAN.Byline: Glenn Whipp Film Writer Steve Carell Steven John Carell (born August 16, 1962)[1] is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American comedian, actor, producer and writer, who rose to fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, from 1999 to 2004. has made a career out of stealing movies from headliners like Jim Carrey “James Carrey” redirects here. For the murder conspirator, see James Carey. James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian actor and comedian. (``Bruce Almighty'') and Will Ferrell John William "Will" Ferrell (born July 16, 1967[1]) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, impressionist, writer and actor who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, (``Anchorman''). Now, with irreverent, R-rated comedy ``The 40-Year-Old Virgin,'' which opens Friday, Carell, 42, finally gets to be the title character, a sweet, fairly normal guy who has gone through life without having sex. ``It's certainly a fun challenge to take someone who's famous as a supporting actor supporting actor n → attore m non protagonista and make him the lead in a movie,'' says director Judd Apatow (``Freaks and Geeks''), who co-wrote the film with Carell. ``To me, what's most impressive is the way he underplays the entire movie. It's an amazing arc, watching this character turn into a man. It's a really big leap for Steve.'' Carell, who lives in Studio City with his wife, comic Nancy Walls Nancy Ellen Walls (born July 19, 1966, in Cohasset, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several comedies. Career Nancy Walls was born to Robert and Carol Walls in July, 1966. , and their two small children, appreciates the praise, but is leery of it as well. The man is as grounded as they come. And even though he's starring in the second season of the NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. comedy ``The Office'' and attached to the upcoming ``Get Smart'' movie, he's firmly convinced that ``a month from now, this could all be done.'' Q: Talking about this movie must be a little weird because it just invites all sorts of personal questions. How many times have you been asked when you lost your virginity? A: Probably about 60 percent of the interviews have asked me that. And I'm developing a very savvy, pat response, which is to say that I was 17 ... Q: And it was a very good year ... A: (Laughs) That should be it, and that would be the end of it. No, I was 17 - I say 17 only because it sounds like a good age for a male to have lost his virginity. If you go a lot older, people think there was something wrong because it hadn't happened sooner. And if you go younger, it's creepy. So 17 is the age I'm sticking with, even though I will never tell what it really was. Q: How do you explain to your 4-year-old and your 1-year-old why daddy's face is on all those billboards? A: Well, of course, we don't even say the title of the movie in the house. It's ``The 40-Year-Old Guy.'' My 4-year-old will ask, ``Daddy, why are you on the signs?'' It's a little hard to explain. She just thinks that it looks stupid and, of course, she's right. Q: But now you're the Guy on the Billboard. Is that something you've worked for as an actor? A: It's not anything I'd ever anticipated. It's a happy surprise, certainly. Honestly, I always thought if I could just support a family and possibly save some money for college as an actor, I would be so far ahead of the game. That was the dream. So this is surreal. On the other hand, I'm not getting ahead of myself. I'm naturally a glass half-empty kind of person, the guy who's waiting for the other shoe to drop. So I just tried to enjoy this movie and not anticipate what might come of it. And I did. Q: What's not to enjoy? You go to work, you make out with five beautiful actresses, you come home. Never mind the kids, how did you explain all this to your wife? Full disclosure? A: There's been no disclosure so far and it kind of worries me. Is she going to start thinking, ``What is up with him that he has to create a movie so he can get a little action on the side?'' When I was shooting it, she was taking care of the kids all day and I came home and I was kind of tired and I said, ``Oh, wow, that was kind of a long day.'' And she had absolutely no sympathy for me. ``You made out with Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks (born February 10, 1974) is an American actress. Early life Banks was born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As a young child, she was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. all day and I was here with a 1-year-old and a 4-year-old.'' Q: What about the lap dance lap dance n. An erotic dance that a stripper performs while straddling a customer's lap. lap  -dance Banks did for you during her audition? A: She just went for it. She sat on my lap. She nuzzled my neck. Just between us, looooved it. Q: Just between us ... A: Honestly, I felt like that creepy Hollywood guy in ``Fame,'' the photographer who said, ``Just take off your top, Coco.'' It's like, ``Wow. I have become that guy. I'm making these beautiful women do the dance in front of me.'' But Elizabeth has a ridiculous, bawdy bawd·y adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est 1. Humorously coarse; risqué. 2. Vulgar; lewd. bawd i·ly adv. sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"sense of humour, humor, humour that totally goes against her gorgeous looks. One take she was kissing me in the bathtub sequence and Judd cried out, ``Elizabeth, we really need to see you tonguing tongu·ing n. Interruption of the wind stream through a wind or brass instrument by movement of the tongue in order to articulate notes. tonguing Noun him.'' So the next take after that, she literally cleaned the inside of my mouth out with her tongue and proceeded to grab my lower lip The lower lip covers the anterior body of the mandible. It is lowered by the Depressor labii inferioris muscle. See also
and pull it off my face.'' Q: So the hazards of being The 40-Year-Old Virgin were a severed lower lip, having your chest hair waxed ... A: Exploding condoms. The scene where I'm vomited on. I was almost struck by a car. I was crossing Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. in Encino. They closed the street for all these precision drivers who are avoiding me on purpose. After I did the final take, which was incredibly realistic as I recall, I was told that someone who is called a ``bogey'' had gotten into the traffic pattern. It was a van who got through the police barricade and was zooming past and got within six inches of me. And I remember what shot through my mind was, ``Man, these guys are good.'' That was almost the end of the movie right there. Q: It would have made for a different movie. The virgin who never had sex. A: Yeah, it would have started off with my funeral. ``We tried to get him laid. Anyway, on with our lives.'' Q: How long does it take chest hair to grow back? A: Two months. And, no, that is not CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. chest hair. We didn't have the budget for it. Glenn Whipp, (818) 713-3672 glenn.whipp(at)dailynews.com 3X TROUBLE They are the buddies, the well-meaning idiots who just want to help The 40-Year-Old Virgin lose his title status. And as played by Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen Seth Rogen (born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, and Emmy-nominated writer. Rogen began his career doing standup comedy for four years during his teens, coming in second place in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest when he was sixteen. and Romany Malco Romany Malco (born November 18, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and music producer. Getting his start as a rapper at age 7 under the name Kid Nice, he formed the rap group R.M.G. in his teens. , they make for one of the funniest trios since the Stooges roamed the earth. Here, the boys ponder their movie's central issues: women, dating and Michael McDonald Michael McDonald may refer to:
Q: Once and for all, how long do you wait to call someone? Rogen: I've recently just gone for the instant call. That night. It's like that scene with Jon Favreau Jonathan K. Favreau (born on October 19, 1966) is an American actor and director. Biography Early life Favreau was born in Flushing, New York to Charles Favreau, a special education teacher, and Madeleine, a schoolteacher who died of leukemia in 1978. in ``Swingers,'' but with more heavy breathing. Malco: I gave this chick my number and she ended up sending a few text messages that night. I was completely turned off. Rogen: I skywrite to them. After I've first met a woman, I just leave a text message: ``Look up in the sky around 7:30.'' Rudd: I didn't meet my wife in that kind of way. She worked for a publicity firm that I was a client of, so it wasn't weird when I called. I was really just calling to talk about myself. Not much has changed now that we're married. Malco: Am I trippin'? Working as much as we do, do you have time to meet chicks and be in the game? Rogen: I make time. I have a girlfriend now, but before I'd go out for the sole purpose of meeting girls. Rudd: Tijuana, right? Rogen: (Laughs) Exactly. What's funny is that when I first moved to L.A., I turn on the news and it's this Fox 11 news special (Rogen segues into a sinister, dramatic voice), ``The teens call it TJ. Tijuana, Mexico. Women sleeping with animals. All-night binge drinking binge drinking An early phase of chronic alcoholism, characterized by episodic 'flirtation' with the bottle by binges of drinking to the point of stupor, followed by periods of abstinence; BD is accompanied by alcoholic ketoacidosis–accelerated lipolysis and .'' I remember thinking it as funny that people would drive five hours to watch women sleeping with animals. Rudd: You don't have to go to TJ. I know a place in Queens. Q: The movie more or less says that listening to Fran Drescher in ``The Beautician and the Beast'' would be preferable to a Michael McDonald concert. Truth or what a fool believes? Rogen: We made a point of saying, ``Nothing against Michael McDonald'' - and not just so we could use his music. Rudd: The reason it's Michael McDonald is that it's the kind of safe concert you might see playing in Circuit City or Best Buy. But you never think about what the workers must be going through, hearing the same concert again and again. The truth is, I didn't want to slam Michael McDonald so much as I wanted to reference ``Yah Mo B There,'' which is really fun to say. Rogen: I think you slammed Michael McDonald. Rudd: I did, didn't I? But he's still better than Fran Drescher. - G.W. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- cover -- color) Like a Virgin Steve Carell goes all the way (2) Steve Carell and Catherine Keener Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959)[1] is a two time Academy Award-nominated American actress. Biography Early life Keener, the third of five children, was born in Miami, Florida, to Evelyn and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store. (3) Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen Box: 3X TROUBLE (see text) |
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