In the film, Paul Rudd plays a strait-laced and smarmy investment banker who gets the opportunity for advancement if he brings an idiot (Steve Carell) to his boss's monthly, er, dinner for schmucks. Over the course of the movie, Rudd learns to be a better person and see Carell, a tax accountant who makes dioramas out of stuffed mice, for the true hero he really is. Greenwood, on the other hand, has no character arc - he's just the evil one in a movie full of warm comedy fuzzies.
Greenwood, in a departure from his keenly felt and sensitive portrayal of conflicted characters in Atom Egoyan movies, plays the boss. Strange? Not for the actor, who claims to have always harboured an urge to end up on the slapstick side of things.
"My wife, for years, ridiculed me for wanting to see the latest Ernest movie - why? There's always five minutes in those films that make 'em worth the price of admission," says the Vancouver-based actor
"I [always wanted] to do slapstick, but it's hard to make that happen in Canada. First, I would have to be seen as someone who could do it, which isn't really the case. I mean, except for people who know me, who all kind of went, 'It's about time, ya goof!'"
Dinner for Schmucks
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