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Recently, Steve Carell had a misunderstanding with his adult daughter over whether to give her a ride home. While both preferred she take an Uber, they agreed Carell could go hours out of his way to drive her instead \u2013 thinking it was what the other really wanted to do.<\/p>\n
His wife, Nancy, eventually stepped in, telling them to stop \u201cacting like idiots\u201d and to just be honest. That is when Carell realised he was \u201ctrying too hard\u201d to do what he thought was a good dad deed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would really have preferred to take the Uber and I would really have preferred to just go home without dropping her off,\u201d Carell says.<\/p>\n
That type of push and pull between a father and his adult daughter is at the centre of Carell\u2019s new series Rooster<\/em>, now streaming on HBO.<\/p>\n Carell plays Greg Russo, a successful author of \u201cbeach reads\u201d whose protagonist is named Rooster. When Greg\u2019s daughter Katie (Charly Clive), a professor at Ludlow College, finds herself in the middle of a humiliating break-up, he takes a job at the small liberal arts school to stay close to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n