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'Dumb and Dumber': Jeff Daniels feared flushing away his career with infamous toilet scene

Jeff Daniels had many smart reasons to turn down 1994's "Dumb and Dumber" with Jim Carrey. Here's why he starred in the goofball comedy anyway.

But more than three decades ago, the young dramatic actor, who had starred in 1983's Oscar darling "Terms of Endearment" and 1985's "The Purple Rose of Cairo," took the chance of his career. Daniels agreed to star as "8 IQ" Harry alongside Jim Carrey's dimwitted Lloyd in 1994's unabashedly moronic comedy "Dumb and Dumber," despite his agents' warning. Yet when it came to shooting the scene in which Harry suffers his prolonged intestinal purge on Mary's toilet after drinking laxative-spiked tea served by his jealous best friend Lloyd, Daniels clenched.

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