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Jim Carrey Wants to Play the Grinch Again but Only via Motion Capture; the Makeup Transformation Was ‘Extremely Excruciating’: I Could ‘Hardly Breathe’

Jim Carrey would only play the Grinch again if it was via motion capture because the makeup transformation was "excruciating."

“In the makeup trailer he just suddenly stands up and looks in the mirror, and pointing on his chin, he goes, ‘This color is different from what you did yesterday,’” Tsuji once told Vulture. Tsuji said that he became so exhausted by Carrey that the film’s head makeup artist Rick Baker allowed him to take a hiatus from the project. Tsuji added that Carrey “kept his temper in check” for the remainder of filming, although his final thought at the end of production was “if I had a choice, I would not be in this mental state all the time.”

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