This notorious disaster (from his Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher) about a man obsessed with a book full of conspiracies about the number 23 is lurid, overcooked, and completely ridiculous, and not even in a fun way. But as Saturday Night Live reminded us, his characters will live on beyond all of us. Carrey has had many ups and downs in his career, but even in his most obnoxious roles, there’s an inherent sweetness, and an undeniable sadness, at the center. ![]() It’s a long way from talking through your butt cheeks to Tone Loc.Ĭarrey in many ways has now merged the philosopher and the comedian with his terrific turn in Showtime’s Kidding, but he can still be the goofy movie star, as witnessed by this weekend’s release of Sonic the Hedgehog, which features him as an over-the-top villain. He has even inspired a sort of motivational philosophy of the self: Type “Jim Carrey philosophy” into YouTube, and you’ll find hundreds of fanmade videos featuring Carrey discussing success, and the conscious mind, and what it means to be alive. Since then, Carrey hasn’t had the box-office might he once had - though his biggest hit ever came just a few years later - but he has become a far more fascinating personality, both onscreen and off. Carrey began to question the trappings, and even the point, of movie stardom, and, as documented in the riveting documentary Jim & Andy, went through a total career (and mental) breakdown while filming Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon. But he stuck with it - famously writing himself in 1985 a postdated $10 million check ten years in the future for “acting services rendered” - and after landing on In Living Color, he bagged a weird little script he didn’t even like called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, decided to rewrite the whole thing himself, and almost instantly became the biggest movie star in the world.īut perhaps what’s most interesting was what happened next. ![]() ![]() But then he moved to Hollywood, and despite some bit roles ( Earth Girls Are Easy, one of Nicolas Cage’s buddies in Peggy Sue Got Married, an Axl Rose lip-syncing rock star in The Dead Pool), it never really came together for him. He dropped out of high school to work both as a janitor - his family was briefly homeless and relying on his salary - and as a stand-up comedian he was opening for Rodney Dangerfield and touring his home country of Canada before he was old enough to vote. Jim Carrey was both a phenom and a late-career bloomer. Photo: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios
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