Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s friendship has been a long time coming!
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Wednesday, April 16, Fey, 54, opened up about starring alongside Carell, 62, on their upcoming Netflix comedy series The Four Seasons. Although the pair had worked together before, the actress revealed that it wasn’t until their recent project that they truly bonded off-camera.
“Steve Carell and I made a whole movie together without ever breaking through to the other side because we’re both very shy,” she said, referring to the 2010 film Date Night, in which Fey and Carell played a married couple. “Without anyone to make us talk, he and I would both sit in polite silence. After working with this big group, I feel like Steve and I are actually all-the-way friends now.”
Colman Domingo, who also stars in The Four Seasons, noted that Fey is much more introverted than people might think.
“Tina, like my husband, is a Taurus,” he shared. “When you first meet her, I wouldn’t say she’s guarded, but she’s assessing. She sizes you up, figures out her way in. The moment it clicks, she’s affectionate and warm and funny.”
“I think I got there faster because I’m from Philadelphia,” he added of the Saturday Night Live alum, who is also from Pennsylvania.
“Parenthood makes you push through because you have to demonstrate for your kids how not to be shy, so I’m better than I used to be,” Fey explained about how she has broken herself out of that shell faster over the years.
Fey is a co-creator of the new Netflix comedy series, which is a remake of the 1981 film of the same name that starred Alan Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno.
It follows Fey’s Kate and her husband Jack (Will Forte), Carell’s Nick and his wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and Domingo’s Danny and his husband Claude (Marco Calvani) on a weekend getaway that leaves everyone “completely upended” when they learn that one of them is about to split from their longtime spouse.
The story unfolds over the course of a year and four vacations, where the breakup “affects everyone’s dynamic — sending old issues and new bubbling to the surface,” per the official synopsis.
Julia Lester, Ashlyn Maddox, Jacob Buckenmyer, Taylor Ortega, Simone Recasner, Toby Edward Huss, Tommy Do, Chloe Troast, Jack Gore and Cole Tristan Murphy are also slated to guest star throughout the season.
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The Four Seasons premieres May 1 on Netflix.
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