Los Angeles Times (Sunday)

STEVE CARELL’S BUSY SUMMER

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Among his many roles, actor Carell has played a fumbling manager (The Office), a nerdy weatherman (Anchorman )anda predatory TV personalit­y (The Morning Show). Now he checks in to the thriller The Patient (Aug. 30 on Hulu) as psychother­apist Alan Strauss, who’s taken prisoner by a serial killer (Domhnall Gleeson). It’s a bit of a departure for Carell, 60, from his other role this summer—as the voice of the wannabe villain Gru in Minions: The Rise of Gru (in theaters now), the latest animated entry in the comedic Despicable Me spinoff franchise. “I’ve always been Gru, all of Gru’s life,” says

Carell, who began voicing the cartoon

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