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Steve: I'd be a terrible spy

Aug 19, 2008
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Steve Carell may play a special agent in new movie Get Smart, but in real life he reckons he wouldn't be too good at espionage. "I think I'd be a terrible spy," he admits. "I'm not particularly intelligent, athletic and I'm not cagey. I think if you looked at me and I was hiding something then you would know immediately. I don't think I could be very secretive so I think I'd kind of fail on all accounts." Despite being an unlikely 007, Steve is a big fan of the spy genre. "I'm a huge fan of spy movies and that's what we tried to do with this movie. We tried to make it a legitimate spy movie that was also funny," he explains. "So there is action, it's exciting and it's fun at the same time." Steve plays bumbling agent Maxwell Smart in the new film which comes out August 22, opposite Anne Hathaway and Alan Arkin. "(Maxwell) is... [read full story]                    

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