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Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film and TV, Jim Carrey
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film and TV, Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey has revealed what happened when Tommy Lee Jones told him he 'hated' him just before shooting their 'biggest scene together'.
Truman Burbank? The Grinch? Ace Ventura? Simply Jim Carrey?
In whatever form he takes, you'd think it would be impossible to hate Jim Carrey,. Alas, fellow actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly wasn't a fan, and he certainly wasn't afraid of telling him to his face.
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Carrey and Jones worked alongside one another on 1995 release Batman Forever, with Carrey in the role of the Riddler and Jones as Harvey Dent - later Two Face.
However, the two actors behind the criminal masterminds ended up butting heads during the production of the movie.
And just before their 'biggest scene together,' Jones' true feelings about Carrey came to light.
The Truman Show actor opened up about it during an appearance on the Norm Macdonald Live show in 2017.
Carrey explained he ended up at the same restaurant as Jones and the maitre de pointed him out having dinner in the corner.
The actor continued: "I went over, and I said, ‘Hey Tommy, how are you doing?’ and the blood just drained from his face, and he got up shaking - he must have been in mid-kill-me fantasy or something like that.
"And he went to hug me, and he said, ‘I hate you. I really don’t like you.’ And I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ and pulled up a chair, which probably wasn’t smart.
"And he said, ‘I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'"
Carrey questioned whether Jones simply wasn't 'comfortable' doing the work they did in Batman Forever, noting it's 'not really his style of stuff'.
He continued "I was the star and that was the problem. He's a phenomenal actor, though. I still love him."
And Jones spoke out about the movie himself.
While not commenting on his relationship to - or rather strong dislike of - Carrey, Jones praised the film, and in particular director Joel Schumacher as being 'excellent' in an interview with ScreenSlam.
Jones reflected: "If there's a lot of technology at work, the actor's job is to work with it. Either use it or be used by it, whatever is called for. So, some movies are more technological than others and your job is to do the right thing so far as you can understand it and so far as you can identify it."
He added it was 'difficult' to get rehearsal time given how 'complicated' the movie was technologically, with so much smoke, lighting, and special effects to take into consideration.
Jones can't have had too much of a bad time working alongside Carrey on the film, noting he'd 'probably say yes' to returning, although it ultimately wasn't meant to be.