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Jim Carrey Offered to Return $20 Million ‘Grinch’ Payday and Quit the Movie Amid ‘Panic Attacks’ Over Makeup; A Man ‘Who Trained the Military on Enduring Torture’ Was Hired to Help (variety.com)
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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The article says they offered to color Carrey's eyes green with CGI but he opted for the painful contact lenses anyway.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

The training worked almost too well.