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Steve and the portrayal of true characters:


He has a lot of experience in that dimension, all in recent years, more specifically after his first one as John Du Pont in Foxcatcher 2014!
He portrayed Steve Eisman (Mark Baum in The big short), Steven Goldenstein (Freeheld), Bobby Riggs (in Battle of the sexes), and lately in his newest movie Ramsfeld
He wears his characters under his own skin, breathes as them, talks as them and I think Thinks as them!
He was only praised by Steve Eisman in the Big Short, where he said that Steve Carell’s Portrayal was the most accurate of him at that specific time, 
well! He ought to..... he gained 25 pounds for that role!!
When you see the big short you will see the transformation, just on point display of character that is angry with deep moral value and cynicism to a fraud system he can’t beat but can bet against!
Another transformation happened in Foxcatcher, you can’t even recognize the guy. I think this is the closest thing Steve Carell ever done to a horror movie, with his calmness you can see the empending doom!!
As Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, he was the hustler that just makes you smile in a movie with so much tension, he just break that tension. 
Also in Freeheld with another Steven he was too gay to  be gay as the real Goldenstein say, but he made the movie a little lighter with the caricaturing of his character because the movie is too sad , so in a word he made a balance!

When he turned to playing true characters he turned in full capacity in that direction, either by choice or by chance, but it was a strange turn! Because before that he always chose characters which were molded in his own way of awkward situations that they find themselves in. 
After transition to the other side,  he had to completely transform to fit the image of his new already known true person characterisation, so there was no more awkward moments which were his key signature, but despite that he got from the other end not just ok! but marvelous!!! 
We rediscovered his talent for transformation, and he takes it very seriously as you can see in all those characters!!

An Update; Beautiful Boy and Welcome to Marwen are additions to the true story streak Steve Carell is going through, and it just seems getting better and better. Although I miss his inventive characters (the flying flag is not a true story so that has to do) and comedic ones but I am Flabbergasted by the new additions!





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