Steve Carell and writer Greg Daniels got so close while making “The Office,” they became like family.
\n\nSo much so that Daniels once wanted Carell to play his dad Aaron in a biopic he wrote about him almost 20 years ago.
\n\n“He’s a very colorful person and he actually was in the Olympics in 1968, and I wrote a movie for Steve to play him, like on spec during the writers strike of 2008,” Daniels told me at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling on Thursday morning. (Writers were allowed to write uncommissioned spec scripts during the 2008 strike.)
\n\n“He had a very rare sport. That’s how he was able to do it,” Daniels explained. “It was the demonstration sport of Mexico, basically like jai alai but with paddles and so he managed to wrangle his way in with some friends.”
\n\nThe elder Daniels competed as an amateur athlete in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
\n\n“The Office” creator Greg Daniels reveals Steve Carell almost played his dad in a biopic Daniels wrote nearly 20 years ago: “He’s a very colorful person and he actually was in the Olympics in 1968, and I wrote a movie for Steve…
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