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Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images Some Wildly Different People Were Considered to Play Ace Ventura
The producers clearly had no idea what they were looking for, as everyone from Rick Moranis to Alan Rickman was proposed at one point
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Jim Carrey Needed Special-Ops Training to Get Through ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’
Richard Marcinko, who developed SEAL Team Six, was hired to guide Carrey through the film’s grueling makeup process
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That Time Jim Carrey Went to an Award Show in Disguise and Fooled Everybody
Carrey showed up to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards dressed like a chain-smoking hippie, and spoke to Samuel L. Jackson for 15 minutes without being recognized
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There’s a Reason the Repair Shop From ‘The Mask’ Looks So Familiar
Interior scenes utilized the same decommissioned firehouse used in another classic comedy movie ten years earlier
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Jim Carrey in 'The Truman Show.' The Original Version of ‘The Truman Show’ Was Much Darker Than the Jim Carrey Movie We Got
The cheerful Truman Burbank we all know was an alcoholic who cheated on his wife with a hooker prior to Jim Carrey’s involvement
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Photo: egumeny / Getty Images Jim Carrey Only Made It 3 Hours in the Hotel Room That Inspired ‘The Shining’
The infamous Room 217 was apparently too much for Carrey to handle while he was in town filming ‘Dumb and Dumber’ in 1994
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‘Dumb and Dumber’ Slipped in a Clever Joke That Most Viewers Probably Missed
The 1986 comedy-thriller ‘Something Wild’ served as the inspiration for Lloyd’s famous dine and dash scheme
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The One Movie Jim Carrey Said He Regretted Making
After the Sandy Hook shooting, Jim Carrey said he could no longer support the level of violence in the film
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Photo by New Line Cinema/Getty Images The ‘South Park’ Guys Were Hired to Write a ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Prequel
Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers were even attached to the project in its early stages
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Vinnie Zuffante/Stringer/Getty Images ‘The Mask’ Was Shaping Up to Be a Horror Movie Before Jim Carrey Got Involved
New Line was originally looking to launch a very different franchise in the early stages
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Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images 5 Dream Comedy Collabs That Happened in Disappointing Ways
Some things aren’t as exciting as they sound on paper
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The Ambiguously Gay Duo. 3 Abandoned ‘Saturday Night Live’ Movies (And Why We’ll Never See Them)
A few other popular characters from the show came close to getting their own big-screen adaptations
