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25 years ago, Jim Carrey ruined Christmas. The star of Dumb & Dumber put himself in the shoes of Grinchfor Ron Howard. A film that has become cult, and which has remained in the heart of the actor, who today confides to ComicBook.com that he would like to return to the green character one day. But on one condition: with digital makeup!
“Oh my God, you know… If we could bring back the Grinchthat would be great“, he said before tempering:
“The thing was, every day I had to go through a ton of makeup. And I could barely breathe. It was an extremely excruciating process. I had the kids on my mind the whole time. I was like, it's for kids… It's for kids… But now there's motion capture and things like that If I was doing the Grinch today, I could be freer to shoot in. even other things in parallel. Everything is possible in this world.”
The Grinch had earned three Oscar nominations at the time and even won the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling. The film based on the book by Dr. Seuss (1957) was moderately received but met with certain success at the box office with 350 million dollars in revenue worldwide.