“It really is.”įor what Carrey called “the frozen scene,” his character, children’s TV host Jeff Pickles, is in the middle of a flashback, remembering how he flew to New York to tell his future wife (and ex-wife) Jill (Greer) that he wants to be with her. “It’s why you get into it: for the magic,” he said. The Best Limited Series of the 21st Century, Ranked
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On the simplest of levels, the stuff that looks cool. “When something like that is being designed, I get very excited,” Carrey said in a later interview.
Just hours earlier, Carrey faced a different challenge in the same position, as he walked through the same alley with the same swarming extras in the same brutal heat. The pressure is on - and it’s on for the second time that day. Standing with co-star Judy Greer in an alley decorated to look like Manhattan’s Little Italy, the duo is trying to get through a lengthy piece of dialogue while dozens of extras move silently around them. “No,” Carrey says, anticipating director Jake Schreier calling cut. It’s approaching 90 degrees on an unreasonably humid August afternoon in downtown L.A., and the “ Kidding” star has just flubbed his line for the second time.