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The big short director5/29/2023 Their paths crossed again when McKay cast Carell as dimwitted weatherman Brick Tamland in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” the 2004 absurdist farce that jump-started both their film careers. “Everyone knew Adam was a special talent back then, super smart, super funny, clearly the head of his class,” says Carell, who, a quarter of a century later, can still reel off, in great detail, McKay’s envelope-pushing work. McKay eventually found his way to Second City, landing in the same company as Carell’s wife-to-be, Nancy. Steve Carell and filmmaker Adam McKay go back 25 years to Chicago when Carell was tearing it up with the celebrated Second City improv group and McKay was making a name for himself as a writer and performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade.
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