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
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.
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
As an aside. The guy who played Pinhead was in so many things as Pinhead he learned how to do the makeup himself.
That’s pretty neat
Freak!
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
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.
Why would she be blue?
Da ba dee da ba di
What about her house and car?
It was all yellow
Ooooooooh Yeahhhhhhhhh
She played mystique in several X-Men movies. mystique is blue in her natural form
Oh neat. I never knew. Not super into superhero movies.
Just average into average hero movies then?
Honestly yeah. Like SkyHigh, ClockStoppers, Futureman
ClockStoppers
Goddamn…
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
The article says they offered to color Carrey’s eyes green with CGI but he opted for the painful contact lenses anyway.
The training worked almost too well.
He did so damn well in this
FeelsIsnt Jim Carrey anti vax?
His ex wife is, I think he’s changed views
I forget what I watched about them, but it seems like she really did a number on him
