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Universal Nearly Nixed The 40-Year-Old Virgin for How Steve Carell Looked

January 13, 2016
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Here’s another case where it was great studio heads resisted their initial instincts by not shutting production on The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Judd Apatow and Steve Carell.

Keep in mind that was several years before Steve Carell’s critically acclaimed turn in Foxcatcher where he looks like a lord of the creeps.

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