Jim Carrey Offered to Return $20 Million ‘Grinch’ Payday and Quit the Movie Amid ‘Panic Attacks’ Over Makeup; A Man ‘Who Trained the Military on Enduring Torture’ Was Hired to Help
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jim-carrey-quit-grinch-makeup-torture-expert-1236607568/
57 Comments
hopesdead@startrek.website · 104 pts · 241d
Acting in makeup does not seem as easy as one’s ability to act without makeup. There have been stories of people on Star Trek for example, whom had terrible experiences. Some wanted to quit, others had bad skin reactions.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 119 pts · 241d
It takes hours and hours to put it on, and take it off. And then theres 10 hours of acting in between.
I would have panic attacks too
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 241d
As an aside. The guy who played Pinhead was in so many things as Pinhead he learned how to do the makeup himself.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 8 pts · 240d
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 7 pts · 240d
That's pretty neat
Kevlar21@piefed.social · 2 pts · 203d
Yeah and after all that you only get $20 million
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 241d
Jennifer Lawrence gets a lot of shit for not being blue much after the first movie she was in but she also had a really bad reaction to the makeup
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 240d
That's why they killed off Z'an on Farscape, the blue makeup was apparently harming Virginia Hey's kidneys so she had to quit the role.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 241d
Why would she be blue?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 241d
Da ba dee da ba di
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 241d
What about her house and car?
zedgeist@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 240d
It was all yellow
DancingBear@midwest.social · 4 pts · 240d
davidgro@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
Ooooooooh Yeahhhhhhhhh
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 241d
She played mystique in several X-Men movies. mystique is blue in her natural form
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 241d
Oh neat. I never knew. Not super into superhero movies.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 28 pts · 241d
Just average into average hero movies then?
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 241d
Honestly yeah. Like SkyHigh, ClockStoppers, Futureman
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 241d
ClockStoppers
Goddamn...
fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 240d
Ah, so you only like movies and shows with penis fight scenes
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 239d
DancingBear@midwest.social · 5 pts · 240d
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 240d
Rebecca Romijn played mystique first, before the role she currently has, of Una, in star trek strange new worlds. She did it best.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 1 pts · 239d
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 239d
Weird they couldn't do this in post production.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 240d
There's makeup, and then there's having carpet laid on your face.
Sizing2673@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 240d
Oh kinky
someguy3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 241d
Michael Dorn said "nope, no way, not doing that again, wait, how much?" (Wrt DS9)
fonix232@fedia.io · 37 pts · 241d
To be fair, in the near 40 years between the beginning of TNG and Picard S3, makeup tech has improved vastly.
In the 80s we were talking about heavy, hot prosthetics under very bright, hot lights.
Today, those prosthetics are slim, silicone moulded to the person's face, with skin-friendlier glues, much less makeup required to hide it, and better CGI that helps eliminate makeup mistakes.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 240d
Neat
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 241d
Dorn had been begging for his own show for decades
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 241d
Like the Sulu series, that ship has unfortunately sailed.
So many good ideas left behind because of the cheap bastards controlling the brand.
massacre@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 241d
Not only will this now accelerate, any fresh IP will get the dreaded production interference with MAGA themes
Tinidril@midwest.social · 5 pts · 241d
The name "Enterprise" was from the start a right wing capitulation to avoid a moral panic over space communism and a diverse crew.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Yeah, Dorn never had a problem with the makeup, he had a problem with Worf getting bodied and overruled every episode.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 240d
It really goes to show the talent that Jim Carrey has as an actor. I'm sure that Grinch costume was extremely restrictive, but his Grinch is almost more expressive than the animated ones. Contrast that with Mike Myers' Cat in the Hat, where The Cat emotes like he has daily botox injections, and you really start to get a picture of how much Carrey put into his performance.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 4 pts · 241d
And they still end up looking like stiff puppets
DancingBear@midwest.social · 2 pts · 240d
iatenine@piefed.social · 70 pts · 240d
The dude who created SEAL Team 6 helped Carrey endure the Grinch make-up is a wild tidbit to bury way so deep in an article like this
danc4498@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 241d
This was a very interesting read. This was my favorite tidbit.
sheridan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 240d
Wow, I had completely forgotten about Ain't It Cool News. It's still running.
daw@feddit.org · 35 pts · 240d
“But what really helped me through the makeup process, which they eventually pulled down to about three hours, was the Bee Gees. I listened through the makeup process to the entire Bee Gees catalogue. Their music is so joyful. I’ve never met Barry Gibb, but I want to thank him.”
TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 240d
Fun fact: How the Grinch stole Christmas is one of three Christmas movies in history to win an Academy Award, and did so for Best makeup.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 240d
Feels
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 6 pts · 240d
“I’m gonna rip the fuckin’ head off!”
I have a friend that dresses as Karl Havoc every Halloween. He’s a drummer in a band and played dressed as him for a Halloween show.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 241d
Even in 2000, I feel like they should have been able to compromise, e.g. by doing his sclera and covering up breathing holes on the computer, but still having the rest be makeup, prosthetics and a costume.
chisel@piefed.social · 15 pts · 240d
The article says they offered to color Carrey's eyes green with CGI but he opted for the painful contact lenses anyway.
TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 240d
The training worked almost too well.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 241d
The Tin Man and Wicked Witch would like a word
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 241d
Smoking more cigarettes should sort that out.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 240d
And the lady from Goldfinger
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 240d
He did so damn well in this
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 239d
Just read the full article. It was a fantastic read considering how much I’ve loved the movie since I was a kid.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 240d
I think it's one of the best acting performances in history.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 240d
Isnt Jim Carrey anti vax?
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 240d
His ex wife is, I think he's changed views
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 240d
I forget what I watched about them, but it seems like she really did a number on him
AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 239d
I can't find any evidence that he's changed his views.