Like his character, Carell had a magic kit as a kid, but, “Obviously, it never turned into a profession. There are so many moving parts,” he says, noting that they actually performed “the hanged man” during filming and didn’t use CGI for the trick. (“We had to be sworn to secrecy and sign a confidentiality agreement,” Carell notes.) Carell, who is a producer on the film, says he was amazed how much physicality is involved in making things appear and disappear. One, “the hanged man,” was designed by Copperfield. The illusions, though, are pretty neat, a word Carell uses. I think people sometimes go to Vegas with that sense of irony but come away with the fact that they were legitimately entertained on a very pure level.” In the movie, Burt and Anton’s show is pretty Vegas-y kitsch. “You go thinking this might be ironically entertaining, but there is no irony in it at all. “It was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life,” he says. Carell says one of the most memorable concerts he ever saw was in Vegas. It’s not my thing.” He recently saw Cirque du Soleil’s “O” with his family, and as part of research for the film, he went to shows by illusionists David Copperfield, who was an adviser on the film and has a cameo, and Criss Angel. For that I love it,” he says, on the line from the Paris casino. “There are some great restaurants and great shows here. I was just around, and it was just exactly what I wanted it to be, soaking up my family and just having time there, taking the kids to school and doing domestic things.” But having filmed there, the family guy has developed a perspective about Vegas. “The first year away from ‘The Office’ I really didn’t work that much. The actor is the father of two and married to actress and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Nancy Walls. “It’s been great,” says Carell about his home life since then. “Once you’re up there a few hours you get used to it, and then you start rocking the thing back and forth to get Steve Buscemi upset,” he jokes, adding that “Getting the vibe of Las Vegas from that vantage point was pretty neat.” When last we talked with Carell nearly three years ago, he had just announced he was leaving “The Office” and was looking forward to spending time with his family. Originally, says Carell, they were only going to shoot part of the scene in Vegas and the rest on a back lot in Los Angeles but ended up filming the entire sequence, which took some eight hours. But when the duo find their popularity waning with the arrival of Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), an illusionist with tricks that border on the masochistic, they concoct the aerial stunt. You felt very untethered to anything, and that was disconcerting.” In the film, Carell plays a magician who has had a successful show on the Strip for years with his longtime stage partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi). “It was the fact that it was all Plexiglas. “The height itself wasn’t what got me,” he says. In the first scene that was shot for his new movie, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” Steve Carell was hoisted some 60 feet in the air in a see-through box over the Las Vegas Strip.
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