New Netflix series The Four Seasons sees Tina Fey and Steve Carell unite on screen, and behind the scenes, the two comedy icons were finally becoming “super tight besties.”
In her recent cover story, Fey told The Hollywood Reporter that “Steve Carell and I made a whole movie together without ever breaking through to the other side because we’re both very shy,” after the two co-starred in 2010 comedy Date Night. “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.”
At the Los Angeles premiere of the show — an eight-episode remake of Alan Alda’s 1980s rom-com of the same name — Carell confirmed Fey’s comments, joking, “It only took 15 years for us to become super tight besties.”
“We had a great time together before but we are super shy. This is about as gregarious as you will ever see me, right now, in this interview,” Carell teased to THR. “So the two of us I think we’re very similar in that we don’t want to bug the other — it’s like, ‘I shouldn’t text her, should I call her? No she’s got kids and they’re busy.’ But she was thinking the same thing and we’re very protective of each other that way, I know she’s got a lot going on. So yeah on this one we became buds. It was really fun, she’s the best.”
Carell and Fey star alongside Colman Domingo, Will Forte, Marco Calvani and Kerri Kenney-Silver in the series, which follows a decades-long friendship between three married couples that is tested when one couple divorces.
“I was in instantly. You can’t say no to Tina Fey,” Carell said of the project. “‘What is it?’ I don’t even care, sounds great. ‘I haven’t explained it to you Steve.’ It doesn’t matter.”
The Four Seasons premieres May 1 on Netflix.