If He's Not Careful, Jim Carrey Might Start To Develop A Reputation As A Difficult Actor
In a brief preview of an article to appear in the upcoming Resurrection Issue of Radar (much more background info on that here for the curious), Ben "The Gatecrasher" Widdicombe assembles a variety of anecdotes, that when taken together, seem to add up to the shocking revelation that serial studio dumpee Jim Carrey might be somewhat difficult to work with: Tales of unbidden urination, tantrum-having, and fun-list-deletion follow:
Labeling Carrey "unpredictable," the mag blames the collapse of some recent projects on his "bizarre behavior and on-set tantrums."
Apparently he annoyed colleagues after he "unzipped his fly and urinated" during a scene on his upcoming film, "The Number 23" - a touch that wasn't in the script.
"Dealing with Carrey proved so harrowing for 'Fun With Dick and Jane's' director [Dean Parisot] that he now refers to the film as 'Fun With Jane,'" the story claims.
"He was scary," a "Lemony Snicket" exec says. "When producers ... expressed the studio's concerns to Carrey, director Brad Silberling recalls, the star bristled. He said, 'You should stop right now, because what you're about to say may mess up my creativity for the rest of this movie.'"
In the end, it wasn't Carrey's flight of bladder-voiding, improvisational fancy itself that was disruptive to The Number 23 shoot, it was the actor's insistence, upon discovering that the scene's missing ingredient was indeed his character's unexpected micturation, that he be given dozens of takes to produce a stream of sufficient duration, force, and color to satisfy his infamous perfectionism, a process that kept frustrated crew members idling while Carrey chugged bottle after bottle of Evian in pursuit of his Platonic urination ideal.