Jim Carrey originpartner portrayed the Grinch in the 2000 feature How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The movie was commercipartner prosperous, and since then, there have been speculations about a potential sequel. In a novel interwatch, Carrey transmited interest in reprising the role but put forth one condition that the project necessitateed to encounter.
Jim Carrey uncover to returning as the Grinch, but wants motion seize CGI
Carrey stated that he was uncover to returning as the Grinch in a potential How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2. However, he would only repascfinish the role if the titular character is created with motion seize CGI instead of pragmatic effects and create-up, as it was for the first movie.
“Oh, gosh, you understand, if we could figure out the Grinch,” the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 actor tancigo in ComicBook. “The slfinisherg about it is, on the day, I do that with a ton of createup and can difficultly breathe. It was an innervously excruciating process. The children were in my mind all the time. ‘It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids.’ And now, with motion seize and slfinishergs enjoy that, I could be free to do other slfinishergs. Anyslfinisherg is possible in this world.”
Carrey has spoken about his struggles with the burdensome create-up he had to wear to execute the Grinch in various other interwatchs. During one of his materializeances on The Graham Norton Show, Carrey contrastd the experience with “being buried alive.” The create-up process for the Grinch apparently took over eight hours on the first day. Afterward, Carrey “put [his] leg thraw the wall” of his trailer. He tancigo in straightforwardor Ron Howard that he could no lengthyer do the movie. Eventupartner, someone associated with the production arranged for him to speak to a man who teached CIA operatives on “how to endure torture.” “That’s how I got thraw the Grinch,” he grasped.
Notably, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is an alteration of Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s Christmas children’s book of the same name. Geisel never penned a second How the Grinch Stole Christmas book, but the Grinch has materializeed in other toils he wrote. In 2023, author Alastair Heim and illustrator Aristides Ruiz unveiled the legacy sequel How the Grinch Lost Christmas!