Steve Carell reveals why he didn't watch much of British ‘The Office'
Steve Carell made a deliberate decision not to watch the British version of The Office before taking on the American rework, and it turned out to be
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Steve Carell reveals why he didn't watch much of British ‘The Office'
Steve Carell made a deliberate decision not to watch the British version of The Office before taking on the American rework, and it turned out to be one of the smartest calls of his career.
Speaking to LAD Bible , the 63-year-old player explained that he had not seen the original Ricky Gervais program before auditioning for the US version.
"I started to watch a tiny bit, and I knew instantly that if I watched any more, I would just do a copy of Ricky, and I didn't want to do that because I figured if it had any chance of achievement, it's not going to be the same program. It has to be different in some way and his depiction of that character part figure was so specific and so great that I knew I could never, ever come close to that level."
In total, he says he has watched less than a minute of the British program to this day.
The decision to tryout in the first place was not universally supported at the time.
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