‘It was like being buried alive’: 24 years later, Jim Carrey has very bad memories of the filming

As the end of the year holidays approach, we all want to delve into our childhood Christmas movies while snuggling up under the covers with hot chocolate. If you’re planning to re-watch The Grinch this time around, sit comfortably on the couch and think about the ordeal Jim Carrey went through to portray this iconic character.

he asked ComicBook To promote Sonic 3, The Mask star revisited his harrowing experience on the set of Ron Howard’s 2000 feature film. At the time, Jim Carrey was the undisputed global comedy superstar after the huge success of Dumb. Dumber, Ace Ventura, Liar, Liar and The Mask.

Shortly before The Grinch, the actor also began a 180-degree turn toward drama with The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. Paid $ 20 million per film, he began the 2000s as the real king of Hollywood and the box office. Despite this status, nothing is spared on the set of The Grinch!

The Trial of Jim Carrey

In fact, the green villain’s makeup process can take up to 8 hours a day. Jim Carrey had to go through this process more than a hundred times during filming. “It’s like being buried alive”Jim Carrey recalls.

It was like being buried alive. I did it with a ton of makeup and it was hard to breathe.

“I did it with a ton of makeup and it was hard to breathe. It was an extremely painful process. To motivate myself, I kept telling myself that I was doing this for the kids: ‘This is for the kids.’ It’s for the kids.”explains the 62-year-old actor.

Watchword: endure suffering

To combat this, producer Brian Grazer even hired a man with a special mission! The latter trained CIA agents for torture; He used the same methods on Jim Carrey so that the artist could withstand the very heavy make-up process.

Additionally, according to celebrity makeup artist Rick Baker, “This makeup works well with Jim Carrey, who has a very moving face. He doesn’t hesitate to force his expressions to put them in latex. I also knew exactly where I could refine his face for that grimace. Maximum latitude.”he confided.

Fun fact: The Grinch’s fur was created using yak hair sewn onto a stretch Lycra suit. All that hard work finally paid off, as The Grinch was the highest-grossing film of 2000 in the United States. Internationally, it grossed $346 million for a $123 million budget. In France, the work attracted less than a million viewers.

If you want to watch the movie (again), it is available on the Netflix platform! To remind you, the Grinch is a green-haired bogeyman who wears an elastic smile from ear to ear. A persecuted misanthrope, he lived in a cave on Mount Crumpit for 53 years with his dog Max. It feeds on salad juice, beaver oil and sour cream, and its heart is three times smaller to be loved by someone.

Meanwhile, Jim Carrey will be back in Sonic 3 on December 25th. He reprises his role as the big bad Dr. Robotnik, who has already played in the other two installments of the Blue Hedgehog saga!