Jim Carrey has been one of the biggest movie stars in the whole world, certainly, one of the comedy kings. The actor has appeared in several groundbreaking comedy roles with his signature style, physical comedy, and redefining comedy in Hollywood.
Carrey’s comedy revolution and a bunch of serious roles that further proved his genius and versatility enhanced his fame further. Carrey had huge box office success, his movies have grossed nearly $5 billion but he is a complicated man. The view of life for the actor is very different.
Jim Carrey’s Perspective On His Life
When it comes to the life of a celebrity, the dark side of fame has definitely impacted many. People are always curious about every aspect of their life and privacy is reduced to almost zero. To satisfy the curiosity of people, the media even publish unverified events creating an alternate image of the person. Jim Carrey was troubled by that on many occasions. Speaking of the media persona and reports the actor candidly revealed his perspective. “And 90% myth as well, so that’s a tough thing to deal with when people create your life,” Carrey told The Hollywood Reporter.
“They take elements. That are true and put it in an article so the article looks legit and yet there’s so much of the article that isn’t true. So that’s something to kind of teach you that, hey, you know what, in order to go forward I have to let go of what this creation is. And I ultimately found that even the me I created wasn’t real, so. So that left me in an odd, precarious situation. The mask was not real. – And I’ve been writing and creating about that for a very long time. Many of the things I do have to do with the disappointment of creating a winning personality in the world and then eventually for your own sanity and freedom letting it go, you know?”
Carrey has been a different person in real life than his media image and even the persona he created for the sake of people. As the actor said, with resounding experiences of decades, he regrets creating the image and now he’s ready to let it go.
Jim Carrey Revealed Why He Hates Selfie
As the modern world has embraced technology to integrate into their life many things have drastic change. Back in the day autographs happened to be the classic way to preserve celebrity memorabilia and now it has evolved into a selfie— Carrey is not fond of selfies and he does not feel responsible to please anyone.
“I operate, I dropped the whole trying to be something for somebody a long time ago,” the 61-year-old said. “So, I pretty much walk through the world except when I wanna be funny or I wanna do something outrageous, you know, kinda tip the boat, you know?”
He added,
“I don’t have any trouble being myself, and I don’t have any trouble saying no when I mean no. I don’t feel there is a pressing responsibility to please everyone, I’m not unkind to people. I love people, I would much prefer saying ‘hello’ and ‘who are you?’ and ‘what are you doing today?’ than giving a selfie because selfies stop the world. You know, they stop life. You then go like that and it’s going on Instagram to give people a false sense of relevance.”
However, the Dumb and Dumber actor clarifies that he has nothing against the people. “And that’s something I have to kind of live with. Nothing to do with the person that comes up,” he said. Because “they’re programmed to react to celebrity that way. They don’t even think of another way to react,” he added.
Certainly, Carrey has a different worldview and he intends to live on his terms.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
