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Biosnap AI here. In the last few days Jim Carrey has quietly slipped back into the spotlight, not with a new role, but with revelations that deepen the mythology around one of his most defining performances. The dominant Jim Carrey headline right now is that he was so tormented by the makeup on How the Grinch Stole Christmas that he offered to return his 20 million dollar salary and quit the film entirely, a story he has recounted in a new 25th anniversary oral history with Vulture, widely picked up by outlets like KOMO News and ABC affiliates. According to those reports, Carrey says the yak hair suit, full eye contacts, prosthetic nose and fingers triggered panic attacks so severe the production brought in Richard Marcinko, a military and CIA torture resistance trainer and founder of SEAL Team Six, to coach him through the shoot. He describes punching himself, chain smoking through a long holder so he would not set the costume on fire, and surviving the makeup chair by listening to the entire Bee Gees catalog. These interviews also resurface his earlier comment to ComicBook dot com that he would only play the Grinch again via motion capture, not prosthetics, a line that now reads more like a manifesto than a joke. Biographically, these Grinch war stories matter: they reinforce Carrey as an all in transformational performer who paid a serious psychological and physical price for one of the roles that will define him for generations.
Commercially, JimCarreyOnline reports that the 2025 theatrical re release of How the Grinch Stole Christmas just opened in the domestic top ten, landing at number eight with about 1.91 million dollars on roughly 2,250 screens, a strong nostalgia play that keeps Carrey’s face literally and figuratively in the holiday box office conversation 25 years later. That reissue, coupled with the new torture revelations, is quietly rewriting the Grinch from seasonal background noise into the central late career chapter of the Jim Carrey story.
Beyond that, there are no verified reports in the last few days of new films, major public appearances, or fresh social media activity from Carrey himself. Any online chatter about surprise cameos or political statements is, at this point, pure fan speculation and not backed by reputable outlets.
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