Michael Scott, is that you?
Over the weekend, the internet exploded with tweets and memes fawning over Steve Carell after photos of the Oscar nominee out in London (and looking better than ever) surfaced.
“Honestly take your Goslings and your Zayn Malik and give me 2017 Steve Carell,” one person tweeted, earning over 35,000 retweets.
Following the social media explosion, the 54-year-old silver fox was asked about his new heartthrob status at the premiere of “Despicable Me 3” in Los Angeles.
“I am so sick of people just looking at me for my physical attributes,” he quipped to Entertainment Tonight. “It’s just genetic! There’s nothing I can do.”
Although Carell admitted, perhaps jokingly, to “busting with pride” over becoming an internet sensation, when asked what his wife thought of all the attention, he simply replied, “You know, I think she’s hot, and that’s all that matters.”