Steve Carell recalled how he nearly lost a body part in one of the most hilarious scenes from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”.
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Steve Carell is an actor who can truly say he gives his all for his profession. In an interview with Heart radio, the actor reminisced about the painful filming of one of the funniest and most iconic scenes from the 2005 film “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”.
“I almost lost a nipple. That waxing scene in ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ one take. Seriously, there’s blood! The pores were ripped open and you can really tell by the way the other people in the scene are reacting.”
“They were freaking out because it was really happening in front of them,” he said about Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Romany Malco, the actors who were in the scene with him. “And the woman who did it had on her resume that she was a professional waxer, but she had never done that before!”
In fact, Miki Mia, the actress who played the waxer, lied to the casting department. Because she had no experience, she skipped an important step and did not apply a layer of Vaseline to protect Carell’s nipples, which ended up bleeding after a few strips were removed.
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