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Years after swearing off acting, Jim Carrey returns to the big screen next week. Now, he is explaining why.
In a 2022 interview with entertainment news programme Access Hollywood, the actor from The Truman Show professed to be “fairly serious” about retiring from acting, saying he had “done enough”. His only contingency, he said, was a script delivered by “angels” and “written in gold ink” coming his way.
“That might have been hyperbole,” Carrey said, laughing, as he spoke this week at the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 premiere in London, in the UK. The jokester reprises his role as antagonist and comically-large-moustache enthusiast Dr Robotnik in the franchise’s third instalment, in cinemas December 20.
Carrey went on to explain that he “came back to this [film’s] universe” for two main reasons, neither of which concerned cherubs or calligraphy.


“First of all, I get to play a genius, which is a bit of a stretch,” he said. The second, he continued, was, “I bought a lot of stuff, and I need the money, frankly.”
Carrey rose to fame via a trio of 1994 comedies – The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber – but has been acting less and painting more in recent years. The Sonic films are the only ones he has shot in the 2020s, according to IMDb.

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actor did, however, provide radio-host-style narration throughout The Weeknd’s 2022 album Dawn FM. He also made a brief cameo in the music video for the album’s seventh track, “Out of Time”.
The video co-starred The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye and Squid Game breakout star Jung Ho-yeon.
And Carrey’s retirement increasingly seems like a short stint, as he is also listed as an actor on Evergreen Pines and the Fading Summer, the forthcoming film from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell. The mystery, set at a sleepaway camp, is still in pre-production, per online database IMDb.


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The chance to play a genius – ‘which is a bit of a stretch’ – and the film’s pay cheque are the reasons Carrey is back on the big screen


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