Q & A: Little Miss Sunshine star Steve Carell
You see him every week at The Office on TV, and you couldn't stop laughing when he was The 40-Year-Old Virgin last summer at the movies. Funnyman Steve Carell gets stuck in a van in Little Miss Sunshine, which premieres at Sundance.
By Cristy Lytal
PREMIERE: Little Miss Sunshine follows a dysfunctional family on a road trip. Where exactly are they headed in their yellow VW van?
Steve Carell: We’re taking my sister’s daughter to a one of these kiddie pageants. She qualified second in the regionals, and the number one qualifier in the region is unable to attend, so by default, she gets invited to the state championship. We’re all on a mission to get her there in time for her to show her stuff.
Does your character have any eccentricities?
He’s the self-proclaimed number one authority on Marcel Proust in the country, but he has a bit of a comeuppance during the course of the movie when someone else claims that title. So there are a lot of Proust scholars circling this movie.
Have you read Proust's Remembrances of Things Past?
Oh, it’s just bedside reading for me, and it was such a happy coincidence that I happened to finally play a Proust scholar after having been one for so many years. No, I tried to dig in as much as I could, but it’s pretty thick, and your mind starts reeling after a while when you read it. It’s not like summer beach reading, let’s put it that way.
What did you do during rehearsals to achieve a realistic air of family dysfunction?
We drew a line down the center of our rehearsal space, and we played dodgeball. It was me, a 71-year-old man, and a nine-year-old girl against everyone else. Watching Alan Arkin play dodgeball was just fun. He threw himself into it completely, as I think everyone did. I beaned Greg Kinnear in the face a couple times — air quotes — by mistake!
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