Steve Carell brings a bit of Hollywood to Bodega for 'Beautiful Boy'

Actor Steve Carell spent a long, busy day in Bodega, shooting scenes for a not-funny movie, “Beautiful Boy.”

The crew pretty much took over the hamlet for the film. Carell, of “The 40-year-old Virgin” and TV's “The Office,” plays the father of a young man ravaged by addiction to meth.

Just for the day, Bodega's beloved McCaughey Bros store, known as the Bodega Country Store when it closed in March, was cinematically revived, though with a different name.

Bodega's Colleen Falconer got to costume-up and work as an extra, standing outside the store as Carell and Timothée Chalamet (Finn Walden in “Homeland') emerge and walk to an old but period-appropriate Volvo.

Colleen, who sells real estate and owns Colleen's Coffee Shop, said Carell is sweet and Chalamet told her Bodega was “the nicest town he ever worked in.”

At one point Carell approached Bodega Postmaster Rob Ramos to share that he'd never worked harder than during his stint as a rural carrier with the U.S. Postal Service.