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Topics: US News, Jim Carrey, Film and TV, Entertainment
Kit Roberts
Topics: US News, Jim Carrey, Film and TV, Entertainment
There's one film Jim Carrey starred in which he later turned around and said he couldn't 'support' anymore.
We all know and love Carrey for bringing life to a whole array of films, whether it be his role in How the Grinch stole Christmas to The Truman Show or even Horton Hears a Who.
However, there's one movie among his collection of over 30 that the 62-year-old has spoken out about being regretful for taking on and it's a movie that may well've slipped your mind that Carrey's in.
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Kick-Ass fans, prepare to shed a silent tear, because Carrey would rather not've taken on the role of Sal Bertolinni a.k.a. Colonel Stars and Stripes - a former hitman for the D'Amico's who's since devoted himself to the Christian faith - in the 2013 sequel.
In his role of Colonel Stars and Stripes, Carrey takes on the role of a baseball-bat wielding vigilante and puts in a solid performance - I mean, when does he not?
So, what could be so bad about the film that it has led Carrey to regret doing it?
Well, there wasn't really anything wrong with the film as such, it was more it just came about during a very sensitive time as Carrey filmed Kick-Ass 2 a month before a national tragedy known as the Sandy Hook Massacre.
The incident saw a lone gunman take to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut shooting and killing 26 people.
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 X 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."
Alas, Carrey's post saw him on the receiving end of criticism from Scottish comic-book writer and Kick-Ass 2 executive producer Mark Millar, who also wrote the graphic novel that the film was based on.
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!
"This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless bodycount of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence…
"Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action movie."