• @moakley@lemmy.world
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    1514 hours ago

    Nostalgia usually doesn’t work on me, but bringing back 1990s Jim Carrey to be in the Sonic movies is laser targeted at 10-year-old me and totally works.

  • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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    1416 hours ago

    Actors say this shit all the time, particularly when they know they’re a critical character in the middle of an unfinished successful series. I wish I could just tell my boss I’m retiring then come back a week later just to do the work I was always planning on doing after my boss wrote a check for $10 million.

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      tbf being an actor, especially in film, is fucking terrible at times.

      I shot a car commercial years ago. Getting up at 4am to get to set for 4.30 to stand in one spot say “¡Vamos!” in heavy makeup repeatedly for 15 hours 3 days in a row in the exposed elements becomes torturous.

      • @FluorideMind@lemmy.world
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        108 hours ago

        You know what’s really torturous? Getting up at 4 am to drive 1.5 hours to the city to pour concrete for a multi billion dollar company 10 hours, 5 days a week so you can support your family on $24 an hour.

    • kadup
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      291 day ago

      Oh tell me your joking, this profoundly ruins he and every single one of his roles forever for me

          • @myTerminal@lemmy.zip
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            John McCarthy gave us the beautiful programming language named Lisp that eventually led to birth of a whole new family of programing languages including modern JavaScript, Clojure, and more. He was also (among a few other significant things) one of the founders of AI.

          • Rob T Firefly
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            58 hours ago

            Counterpoint: Melissa McCarthy is a goddamn gift to a world which struggles to deserve her.

        • His exes parents blame him for their daughters suicide afaik, I read about it long ago and remember feeling shitty about him after. I’m too lazy/disinterested to read about it again.

        • @Goku@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          Maybe it’s about from when he dated Jenny McCarthy (another anti vaxxer but she’s down into this rabbit hole of misinformation a lot deeper including herself being prominent in spreading misinformation), I didn’t know til recently Jim Carrey was an anti vaxxer, there’s some other actors/actress (including Robert De Niro) I never expected to be one, what a shame. (I rarely check out news about celebreties so that might be why)

          A list of some from BuzzFeed with sources included in their article, I tried archiving with archive.is and archive.ph but for some reason lately they just stay on infinitely “Loading” at least for me

  • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    452 days ago

    Everybody comes back when you back a big enough truck full of money into their driveway.

    At least Carrey is being picky about what he does. I wanted another season of Kidding, but I understand if he’s done playing dark roles.

  • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    532 days ago

    He also obviously got to write his own lines. He insisted on either that or explicit Robotnik/Stone (true story source go do your own research).

    I don’t know about you but that seems a good reason to un-retire.

    • Yeather
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      520 hours ago

      Bro wanted Improv or Yaoi, can’t blame a man for knowing what he wants.

  • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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    232 days ago

    As much as I loved him in the Sonic movies I really hope they don’t bring him back for number four. He’s died twice now but that second one was actually a really good death.

  • @bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    122 days ago

    I wonder if you could go back to him when he got his start on that TV show with the Wayans brothers and told him that he would enter playing Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic movie what he would think.

    • @blargle@sh.itjust.works
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      172 days ago

      Sonic 1 had just come out for the Genesis and was hugely popular while In Living Color was on TV- and that awful live action Mario Bros movie hadn’t come out yet, so he probably would have been all for the idea.

  • kurikai
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    112 days ago

    He seems to enjoy doing sonic. So good for him getting paid to do it