Steve, with Juliette and Dane Credit: Touchstone

We know cute actor Steve Carell as a funnyman. Whether it's on TV's "The Office" or as The 40-year-old Virgin or a modern Noah in Evan Almighty. Next summer we'll see him as Max Smart in the TV adaptation film Get Smart. This week, Steve tries on a different hat and it fits him quite well. In the romantic comedy Dan in Real Life, Steve plays an adorable and totally-datable dad raising daughters (two of them teens) without a partner since his wife died. Dan is an advice columnist but isn't so good at taking his own advice. When he meets a great woman (Juliette Binoche) while at a family reunion, things are looking up..until he learns she's his brother's girl!

We sat down in Marina Del Rey, California with Steve recently to learn about this romantic comedy departure for him, what it's like playing a dad with several daughters (he has one much younger daughter in real life) and wazzup with "The Office" and Get Smart. Picture Steve in casual blue stripe shirt, jeans and a brown cord jacket.

TeenHollywood: "The Office" is still hilarious. But, now that you are this big movie star, why do you stay on the show?