Here
is the first image of Steve Carell as John du Pont in Bennett Miller’s take on “…
the gripping, true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Channing
Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the
eccentric John du Pont (Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune that led
to murder.”
Foxcatcher
also stars Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall.
Regarding
the casting of Steve Carell, Miller said to EW that:
“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, who explains that the unlikely casting of Carell as a killer is an
important part of making the character feel authentic. “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.”
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