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How Steve Carell Uses His Comedy Skills Even While Shooting the Darkest Moments of ‘The Patient’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Donald Gleason stars alongside
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Speaker 1: Steve Carrell in the new Hulu thriller series The Patient,
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Speaker 1: about the relationship between a serial killer and his therapist,
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Speaker 1: and Donald says the first thing that attracted him to
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Speaker 1: the job was seeing the name Steve Carrell attached to it.
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Speaker 1: And while Steve might have a reputation for being able
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Speaker 1: to tackle comedy and drama, he's famous for a lightning
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Speaker 1: quick wit and legendary sense of humor, which Donald tells
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Speaker 1: Decider still came in handy quite a bit, even while
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Speaker 1: shooting a drama with the subject matter as dark and
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Speaker 1: serious as The Patients, saying, part of what was great
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Speaker 1: about the experience of making it was having all those
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Speaker 1: lovely people who are very funny doing something that, for
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Speaker 1: the majority of it was serious. But you cannot live
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Speaker 1: in that for twelve hours a day just go mad.
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Speaker 1: It wore quite a lot on Steve. He had to
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Speaker 1: be so still and so contained and had to swallow
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Speaker 1: it down. He was fantastic about coming up for air,
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Speaker 1: making it a nice place to work, and keeping a
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Speaker 1: happy crew. Even though it was stressful, it was a
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Speaker 1: very good experience. The Patient Tuesdays on Hulu. That's direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood