Six Degrees: Steve Carell promotes his new movie, talks about Stephen Colbert

Hero Sadie07 left a tip about Steve Carell in the comments to Kinaesthesia’s previous post; evidently, he was on ABC earlier promoting his new movie, Dan in Real Life. Good thing we have all of you tipsters feeding us the good stuff.

Steve Carell in “Real Life” crowd-pleaser

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Peter Hedges has snuck up on us.

He is no newcomer to film comedy. At age 45, he has written the novel and screenplay for the offbeat, felicitous “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” penned the screenplay for the sharply observed comic drama “About a Boy,” wrote and directed the wonderfully dysfunctional Thanksgiving comedy “Pieces of April” and now has co-written and directed “Dan in Real Life.”

This latter film, among many other fine things, provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. While not a perfect comedy, “Dan” is certainly a crowd-pleasing, cleverly engineered and well-executed divertissement that should put grins on the faces of movie fans of many ages and execs at Disney and Focus Features.

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And there’s video! Toward the end of the clip, Steve talks about this year’s Emmys and Stephen Colbert’s presidential run. Happy viewing!

Thanks, Sadie07!

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