Steve Carell: intervista al protagonista di Benvenuti a Marwen

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00:00Steve Carell, molto bello to meet you. Welcome to Marwan, by Robert Zemeckis.

00:05First of all, I want to know if you mette a real Marc Ogenkamp to prepare the role.

00:11Yeah, I did. Both Bob and I went up and met with him.

00:16And I've been in touch with him since the day we met.

00:21We've exchanged emails and call each other from time to time.

00:25Yeah, it was great. It was great to meet him. He's exactly who you'd hope he'd be.

00:30He's very warm and self-deprecating and kind and open-hearted sort of guy.

00:38And how did you approach the character for the movie?

00:42Well, I approached it as I thought Mark would.

00:48I tried to get to know him as well as I could.

00:51And I tried to emulate the type of person he is.

00:56I just thought, you know, here's a guy who's experienced real severe trauma.

01:02And after all of that, after going through this incredible suffering

01:08and experiencing, you know, mental lapses and memory loss,

01:17that he still retained his humanity through it all.

01:21And I think that was sort of the root of what I was looking to do,

01:24is that here's somebody against all odds just maintain a real positive outlook on life.

01:31During the last few years, your characters have become more and more complex.

01:36I think it's quite beautiful for an actor to build this kind of characters during the years.

01:44I've been fortunate enough to be able to take some roles that are different and diverse.

01:51And so a lot of that's just luck being offered the kind of things that I've been offered.

01:57And always working with Robert Zemeckis, I think it must be quite stressful on set.

02:03Yeah, yeah, very intimidating. He's such a master.

02:06And I think that first day, everybody felt a lot of butterflies and a little bit apprehensive.

02:14But he's very unassuming. I don't know if you've met him or not yet, but very, very nice guy.

02:21Very, you know, very down to earth, very normal, and a real technician.

02:26Just knows exactly what he wants and is very confident, obviously, in his filmmaking.

02:30You share the scene with Leslie Mann. You work together in The 40 Years Old Virgin.

02:35She plays Mark's neighbor in the movie, and she's sweet and understanding and becomes Mark's friend.

02:43But there's also a sense of knowing about her.

02:48She understands what Mark is going through. She's very sympathetic, but she's earnest,

02:53but, you know, not completely oblivious to what's going on with him.

02:58And it's, I think, a very delicate and finely tuned performance.

03:02And it's great. We, you know, we make each other laugh. We have a good time.

03:06How did you feel being a doll?

03:09It was really fun. I mean, it was nice to be able to see myself as an action figure.

03:14It's not, not everybody gets to see something like that come to life.

03:20And it was, it was fun because much better looking than I am.

03:23So that was kind of nice to see.

03:25Like the idealized version of what I might look like.

03:27of what I might look like.

03:28of what I might look like.