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Topics: Film and TV, Jim Carrey, US News, Entertainment
Callum Jones
Topics: Film and TV, Jim Carrey, US News, Entertainment
Jim Carrey has featured in a lot of movie over the years, and there is one film looking back on he regrets making.
Carrey has an impressive and varied resume to his name, from How the Grinch stole Christmas to The Truman Show.
The actor is even returning to our screens just in time for Christmas, as he stars in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as famed character Doctor Eggman.
However, there is one movie in Carrey's long-running acting career he regrets being involved in, and to be honest, it's a film many of you have probably forgotten about.
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While Kick-Ass is a famed franchise, Carrey would rather not have taken on the role of Sal Bertolinni, a.k.a. Colonel Stars and Stripes, a baseball-bat wielding vigilante, in the 2013 sequel.
The reason why a lot of actors try to distance themselves from a project is often because of a poor reputation.
There wasn't really anything wrong with Kick-Ass 2 as such, it was more the fact the film released during a very sensitive time before a national tragedy known as the Sandy Hook Massacre.
In 2012, a gunman took to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut shooting and killing 26 people in a horrible massacre.
The nation, alongside Carrey, were left in shock and mourning, and the actor was so affected by the tragedy that he resolved to swear off working in movies with excessive violence in the future.
Taking to Twitter back in June 2013, the actor said: "I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence.
"I meant to say my apologies to others involve [sic] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."
Carrey's post saw him on the receiving end of criticism from Scottish comic-book writer and Kick-Ass 2 executive producer Mark Millar.
Writing in a blog at time, Millar said Carrey knew exactly what he was getting himself in for: "[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay 18 months ago.
"Yes, the body count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us Hit Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much…
"Like Jim, I'm horrified by real-life violence (even though I'm Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn't a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production!"