Just read the full article. It was a fantastic read considering how much I’ve loved the movie since I was a kid.
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“But what really helped me through the makeup process, which they eventually pulled down to about three hours, was the Bee Gees. I listened through the makeup process to the entire Bee Gees catalogue. Their music is so joyful. I’ve never met Barry Gibb, but I want to thank him.”
I think it's one of the best acting performances in history.
The dude who created SEAL Team 6 helped Carrey endure the Grinch make-up is a wild tidbit to bury way so deep in an article like this
Acting in makeup does not seem as easy as one’s ability to act without makeup. There have been stories of people on Star Trek for example, whom had terrible experiences. Some wanted to quit, others had bad skin reactions.
It really goes to show the talent that Jim Carrey has as an actor. I'm sure that Grinch costume was extremely restrictive, but his Grinch is almost more expressive than the animated ones. Contrast that with Mike Myers' Cat in the Hat, where The Cat emotes like he has daily botox injections, and you really start to get a picture of how much Carrey put into his performance.
It takes hours and hours to put it on, and take it off. And then theres 10 hours of acting in between.
I would have panic attacks too
As an aside. The guy who played Pinhead was in so many things as Pinhead he learned how to do the makeup himself.
That's pretty neat
Freak!
There's makeup, and then there's having carpet laid on your face.
Oh kinky
Jennifer Lawrence gets a lot of shit for not being blue much after the first movie she was in but she also had a really bad reaction to the makeup
Weird they couldn't do this in post production.
That's why they killed off Z'an on Farscape, the blue makeup was apparently harming Virginia Hey's kidneys so she had to quit the role.
Why would she be blue?
Da ba dee da ba di
What about her house and car?
She played mystique in several X-Men movies. mystique is blue in her natural form
Oh neat. I never knew. Not super into superhero movies.
Just average into average hero movies then?
Honestly yeah. Like SkyHigh, ClockStoppers, Futureman
Honestly probably my favorite TV show ever
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Michael Dorn said "nope, no way, not doing that again, wait, how much?" (Wrt DS9)
To be fair, in the near 40 years between the beginning of TNG and Picard S3, makeup tech has improved vastly.
In the 80s we were talking about heavy, hot prosthetics under very bright, hot lights.
Today, those prosthetics are slim, silicone moulded to the person's face, with skin-friendlier glues, much less makeup required to hide it, and better CGI that helps eliminate makeup mistakes.
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Dorn had been begging for his own show for decades
Yeah, Dorn never had a problem with the makeup, he had a problem with Worf getting bodied and overruled every episode.
Like the Sulu series, that ship has unfortunately sailed.
So many good ideas left behind because of the cheap bastards controlling the brand.
Not only will this now accelerate, any fresh IP will get the dreaded production interference with MAGA themes
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Fun fact: How the Grinch stole Christmas is one of three Christmas movies in history to win an Academy Award, and did so for Best makeup.
Feels
“I’m gonna rip the fuckin’ head off!”
I have a friend that dresses as Karl Havoc every Halloween. He’s a drummer in a band and played dressed as him for a Halloween show.
This was a very interesting read. This was my favorite tidbit.
“There was a popular movie website at the time, Ain’t It Cool News, and the guy who ran it was a fan of my work, and I contacted him,” Baker continued. “I said, ‘Listen, Universal wants to paint Jim Carrey green. I feel it’s a major mistake. I did a test on myself of what I think it should look like. Can you somehow say that you saw this test and that Universal is making a major mistake and they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about?’ And he did. And it was outrageous responses from everybody. ‘What the hell is wrong with these people at Universal? I don’t want to see green Jim Carrey. I want to see a Grinch!’ Blah, blah, blah. So they finally caved in.”
Wow, I had completely forgotten about Ain't It Cool News. It's still running.
He did so damn well in this
Even in 2000, I feel like they should have been able to compromise, e.g. by doing his sclera and covering up breathing holes on the computer, but still having the rest be makeup, prosthetics and a costume.
The article says they offered to color Carrey's eyes green with CGI but he opted for the painful contact lenses anyway.
The training worked almost too well.
The Tin Man and Wicked Witch would like a word
And the lady from Goldfinger
Smoking more cigarettes should sort that out.
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