Jim Carrey formed with an expert in CIA torture to play this role
He needed professional help to endure his makeup to find out how the Grinch stole Christmas.
Research for a cinema role is one thing. Many actors will train, study or even shadow professionals in another field to enter the head space in which they want to give to give Their best performance . But few found a job as an actor so difficult that they had to consult an expert in torture who worked with the CIA. Embodying one of his most famous characters, Jim Carrey was put under an incredible quantity of physical and mental stress. Read more to find out why the 2000s How the grinch stole Christmas was an endurance exercise and what the torture expert taught him to help him travel the shooting.
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Carrey played The Grinch in the live feature film.
Ron Howard Directed Carrey in the 2000 cinematographic adaptation of the 1957 bien book by 1957 by Dr. Seuss . He played alongside Taylor Momsen ,, Christine Baranski ,, Molly Shannon , and Jeffrey Tambor In a family comedy that has spread (and made a little darker and more adult) the source material. To Carrey How the grinch stole Christmas Released, it was just the classic animation special of 1966 which was in regular vacation rotation for fans.
A lasting element on the film is that the other work of Carrey at the time of the casting led to a non -traditional hearing. The actor played in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon And would not break the character. He supposedly Auditioned for Grinch As if Kaufman played green.
Makeup was intense.
Transforming a distribution of human actors in which down in Whoville required a serious quantity of hair, makeup and prostheses. But no one was buried under more than Carrey. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"There were about three and a half hours of makeup, and another half for the costume, then you just hit the wall of the coffin and say:" I'm still alive! "" " he said Entertainment tonight In 2000. He added that it had taken "a good hour to scrape the things [his] face". While Carrey delighted how much he had fun playing the character, he recognized that makeup was not a picnic. He even said that he had lived "two weeks of absolute discomfort and panic about it, thinking, I don't know how I'm going to go through it . '"
Rick Baker , The artist behind Carrey-avech-Iterife, ended up winning the Academy Award for the best makeup for the film.
He had the help of the CIA.
Years later, Carrey was much more candid as to the stress of the Grinch makeup, which he estimated that he had to put 100 times during the shooting.
"Literally the Makeup was like being buried living every day, "he said on a 2014 episode of The Graham Norton show . "The first day was half past eight, and I returned and I put my leg through the wall, and I told Ron Howard that I could not make the film."
At this stage, the actor told, producer Brian Grazer intervened to provide a solution. His suggestion was to "hire a gentleman formed to teach CIA agents how to endure torture," said Carrey.
As for the advice that the specialist has offered, Carrey remembers some tips: "He said:" Eat everything you see. If you panic and start in a spiral, turn on the TV. Change your model, ask Someone you know go up and slam in your head, hit your leg or smoke - run away as much as you can. "The star added that he had to use a long cigarette medium to do it, So the hair yaks that made its costume would not take fire.
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Howard also lent a hand.
Talk to Entertainment tonight , Baker said that the director of the film had taken a tour of Grinch's full outfit to show solidarity with Carrey. "This is one of the few films where I did not suggest this, but Ron, I think, made the idea," said the makeup artist. "[He] thought, maybe it would be easier for Jim if he sees that I can do it too. He did it for a day.
