First Look at Steve Carell In Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’
Here’s our first official look at Steve Carell as real-life murderer John DuPont in Bennett Miller’s (Moneyball, Capote) upcoming drama Foxcatcher. The film centers on the “the chemical heir (Carell) who befriended Olympic wrestler brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) before murdering David in 1996.”
Miller talked to Entertainment Weekly about the unlikely casting of Carell as a killer:
“We just had our first test screening, and not everybody recognized Steve. He is aged for the film, and his face is changed, and his physicality changed,” says Miller. “If I say I’m going to make a movie about a guy who’s a schizophrenic murderer, there are probably a dozen actors who would immediately appear on anybody’s casting list. And Steve would not be on any of those lists. And that’s a good thing. Because it’s unexpected… John DuPont was a character who nobody thought was capable of doing something as horrible as he did. And I did not want to cast somebody who would feel dangerous in that way.”
I love seeing Carell play against type and I’m a huge fan of Miller’s so I’m definitely eager to see some footage from this one. Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller, and Anthony Michael Hall also star. The film is set to open on December 20th.