I was watching the outtakes and Jim Carrey just making everybody laugh, and just how much fun they looked to be having. Then two years later it was exactly and then I was in the outtakes. And then the chance to work with Tom, again, sort of on a one on one basis, was like a dream come true.
It was, how the last few years came about, was very surreal for me. He actually came and pitched it to me. I thought that he was going to pitch the idea of a sequel, starring Jim, and then maybe featuring me as, you know, another thorn in his side sort of character.
But then when he said, We d like you to play the title role, I was like, You had me at Hello. I was totally there. Although Freeman played God in Carell never had the opportunity to meet him on that set.
Carell recalled, I saw him from a distance at the premiere, but I was far too nervous and shy to approach him and say, Hi. I was almost too shy to approach him on this one as well. He walks around and people have a great amount of respect and reverence for him, really.
He s such a fantastic actor and all you want to do is be around him. He s the type of actor I think, the best kind, because he makes everyone else he s with better than they are. Could not have been sweeter and has an enormously good sense of humor about himself.
In the past couple of years I ve worked with Alan Arkin and Juliette Binoche and Catherine Keener, and I ve worked with Morgan Freeman. These are people who I hold in such high regard, among others that I ve worked with. But, yeah, he s one of those sort of iconic people that I think anyone would love to get to work with at any point.
Carell never received any formal training on how to actually build something as large as the film s ark. I think one day a guy said, This is an auger. And you put it here and you press down here.
I didn t get any training. I am so not handy. There is no way.
It would take me several hundred years to build one of those ribs for that ark. The amount of work that would take even a skilled master carpenter to stand I mean, imagine this room - and we are in a large viewing room - the ark was maybe twice as wide as this and 450 feet long. The structure and just the magnitude of this project.
And for Tom, it was very important for him to actually build it and he was right. We were talking about it early on and he said that in his mind he had this idea of me at night in front of the ark and it s just this massive, hulking thing. It s almost like another character in the movie.
You just couldn t get that if you did it as a computer generation or a backdrop of some sort. But, no, I could maybe build a boat the size of this table that would then sink. I was watching the outtakes and Jim Carrey just making everybody laugh, and just how much fun they looked to be having.
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