At that point, Lawler said Carrey's bodyguard started pulling on Carrey's legs, which could have caused "some trauma to his neck." So, Carrey didn't get to take a piledriver, but he got his neck injury story blasted all over the press, and if there's one thing movie studios love, it's having their insurance writers see on the evening news that the star of their movie got injured on the set. ![]() Furious, Carrey allegedly spat in Lawler's face, which led Lawler to put Carrey in a "front face lock," meaning the actor's head was basically in the wrestler's vice-like arm grip. Speaking with TMZ, Lawler said that Carrey secretly tried to arrange it so Lawler would piledrive him instead of the stuntman, but Lawler blew the whole thing when he told the director. The beloved actor turned 60 years old on Monday (January 17) and he shared a funny video on Twitter to mark the occasion. In it, Millar suggested that the film is actually a statement on the consequences of violence, and also points out: "Ironically, Jim's character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place." While it's impossible to say for sure that Carrey was widely saddled with the dreaded "difficult" label after that, it's a good bet that at least one producer isn't champing at the bit to cast him anymore.Īnother crazy story from the set of Man on the Moon is the time Carrey got wrestler Jerry Lawler to "injure his neck" in an echo of the famous piledriver injury that Andy Kaufman supposedly incurred during his bout with the wrestler in the '80s. Jim Carrey is celebrating a milestone birthday. Kick-Ass comic book creator and executive producer on the film Mark Millar shot back in a since-deleted open letter, which was quoted at the time by Think Progress. 5) Steven Jay Russell in 'I Love You Phillip Morris' (2009) Based on the life of a real con artist, this movie has Jim Carrey inhabiting the skin of a former police officer, businessman, husband. According to The Washington Post, Carrey spoke out against the ultra-violent flick in a couple of tweets that linked his discomfort with the film to the mass shooting in Sandy Hook, which occurred after the film wrapped. The comedian has had a prolific career, so the revelation of Jim Carrey's retirement is unfortunate news. Carrey's quirkiness ran head-on into his work obligations when he decided he could no longer promote Kick-Ass 2. Carrey's 1994 was one of the best years for any comic actor in history, with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber all becoming smash hits that have legions of fans even to this day.
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