In the past decade, cinema audiences have seen decidedly little of Jim Carrey.
With the recent release of 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, fans are finally getting another
dose of the beloved comic actor, who reprises his role from the original film as villain
Doctor Eggman.
Sadly, this treat for audiences comes with some bad news, as Jim is claiming that his
role in the film may very well end up being his last ever.
Join Trender as we take a look at the real reason Jim Carrey is retiring, as well as
something that may bring him back!
Will Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Be Jim Carrey’s Last Movie?
While Jim Carrey fans have been anxiously awaiting the release of 2022’s Sonic the
Hedgehog 2, its premiere has sadly come with some bad news.
The beloved comic actor, who can be seen in the sequel reprising his role of the villainous
Doctor Eggman from the original film, claims that his work in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 may
very well end up being his last bit of film work ever.
Of course, Jim Carrey has threatened to leave Hollywood before, but this time the actor
claims that he’s serious… or, at least, fairly serious.
Though Jim seems to be having a hard time making his mind up about whether he’s serious
about retiring from acting or only fairly serious, he claims that it’s going to take
some marvelous film script in order to get him back in front of the cameras.
Sonic the Hedgehog and its recent sequel represent the only major films that Jim Carrey has appeared
in within the past several years, and they’re certainly no high works of art.
If Jim is looking to end his career with a bang, there’s a chance he might try to do
one more critically acclaimed picture before officially retiring.
However, Jim seems intent on teasing his fans that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 may really mark
the end of his time in Hollywood.
Jim Carrey Didn’t Work Much During the 2010s Prior to the release of Sonic the Hedgehog
in 2020, Jim Carrey hadn’t headlined a major feature since the third Dumber and Dumber
film in 2014.
Though it was the third film in the series, it was the first follow-up to feature Jim
Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their classic roles from the original film.
Despite the pedigree, Dumb and Dumber To was a big disappointment with both critics and
audiences, and this perhaps made Jim hesitant to take on further work.
Even prior to the release of 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To, Jim Carrey had been slowly
transitioning away from his days as a headlining blockbuster star.
This isn’t because Jim Carrey is no longer bankable, but instead because the beloved
comic actor simply doesn’t think very much of the Hollywood system.
According to Jim, he’s grown tired of the corporate influence over Hollywood and prefers
expressing himself in ways that he has complete control of.
Some of the ways that Jim prefers to express him nowadays include painting and drawing
political cartoons.
He shares the latter hobby on his Twitter account to numerous followers.
While Jim Carrey’s film work in the 2010s was predominantly limited to the aforementioned
Dumb and Dumber To, he also headlined 20 episodes of a Showtime series by the name of Kidding
that represented somewhat of an artist comeback for the actor.
Jim’s work on the series saw him reuniting with director Michel Gondry, who had directed
the actor in the critically acclaimed 2004 feature Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Just as the release of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind over a decade prior had
proved to critics and audiences that there was more to Jim Carrey than just his comedic
person, the release of the Showtime series Kidding in 2018 proved to modern audiences
that Jim Carrey is still just as talented as ever after all these years.
Jim Is Getting Passionate About Politics Besides Jim Carrey’s work on the Showtime
series Kidding, which ran for two seasons, Jim Carrey could also be seen performing on
several notable episodes of the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live throughout 2020.
Jim Carrey played presidential nominee Joe Biden over the course of several episodes,
with the occasion being the 2020 presidential election.
If Jim Carrey’s political cartoons are any indication, the comedic actor is fairly passionate
about his politics.
Jim is certainly glad that Donald Trump is out of office, though he seems to be more
passionate about independent politicians than big ones like Joe Biden.
Is Jim Carrey Still a Bankable Star?
Besides Jim Carrey, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 also features such stars as James Marsden and Idris
Elba.
The first film raked in well over $300 million at the box office, and about as much of that
came from Jim Carrey’s star power as the star power of the film’s titular video-game
character.
After all these years, Jim Carrey is certainly a bankable star, though it’s doubtful that
he could ever again command the staggering $20 million paycheck that he was purported
to have received for 1996’s The Cable Guy.
Ironically, The Cable Guy went on to become the actor’s first big flop.
However, the failure of the film didn’t much affect the actor’s career, and he went
on to appear in his biggest blockbuster features over the course of the ensuing 1990s and 2000s.
Jim Carrey is currently known as one of the most recognizable stars in the world, but
there was a time when the actor was struggling to be noticed.
In fact, Jim Carrey’s success during the 1990s surprised a great deal of the comic
actor’s critics, and there were many who claimed that the actor’s comedic antics
would end up proving to be just another cinematic fad, like Pauly Shore and Yahoo Serious before
him.
Instead, Jim Carrey was somehow able to endear audiences despite critical disapproval and
was eventually able to win over the critics with more cerebral features such as the aforementioned
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Jim Carrey Chooses Not to Work Unlike so many other comedic stars that have
saturated the media and then essentially disappeared, Jim Carrey works infrequently of his own volition.
Studios would likely love it if the star would be willing to come back out and start acting
in blockbuster features as routinely as he did during the late 1990s and early 2000s,
but Jim would prefer to toil away his days on his California ranch, working on paintings
at his leisure and sketching political cartoons for his social media followers.
Jim claims that he prefers painting to act because there’s no one around to tell him
what to do, and he says that he started getting into sketching political cartoons just around
the time of the 2016 presidential election.
Is Jim Mentally Well?
Many were surprised when Jim Carrey first started taking to social media to share his
political cartoons.
Jim has candidly revealed that he was initially discouraged from going onto social media due
to his oftentimes-erratic behavior.
However, he claims that he always has at least two or three handlers sign off on his social
media posts before he makes them.
According to him, this is just the way things are for a person of his stature.
The beloved comedic actor’s sanity has been questioned numerous times over the past few
decades.
In 2017, at a time when he hadn’t been seen in a major film since the aforementioned release
of Dumb and Dumber To in 2014, Jim made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that saw
the actor behaving very strangely.
Several months after his bizarre appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jim Carrey made a bizarre
appearance at a party that was being held during New York Fashion Week.
A reporter on the party’s red carpet interviewed the actor, and Jim claimed that the reason
that he had attended the party was because he wanted to do the most meaningless thing
that he could possibly think of.
He then went on to insinuate that he didn’t exist and talk about spiritual energy.
Following these strange public exhibitions, Jim Carrey had his aforementioned lite comeback
thanks to the Showtime series Kidding, and this lite comeback was followed by a more
major comeback with his appearance in 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog.
Fans may have thought that they were going to be getting quite a bit more Jim Carrey
in the future, though the actor’s insistence that he is fairly serious about retiring following
the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 casts doubt on how much we’ll be seeing of the
beloved comic actor.
Dolly Parton Wants Jim to Play Porter Wagoner Although Jim Carrey maintains that he is fairly
serious about making his reprisal of Doctor Eggman in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 his last film
role ever, there is one person who seems to be anxious to keep the actor from retiring.
That unlikely figure is Dolly Parton, and the reason that she doesn’t want Jim to
retire is because she thinks that he would be perfect to play the part of country music
singer Porter Wagoner in a proposed movie about her life.
For those that don’t know, Dolly Parton’s got her start in the industry thanks to her
tenure on The Porter Wagoner Show.
Though Dolly and Porter had their troubles after Dolly left the show, they made up by
the time of Porter’s death and he still remains an integral part of the female singer’s
story.
According to Jim, he’d be willing to set aside his plans for retirement if he thinks
that there’s a script that would be worth filming.
However, it has yet to be seen whether or not Dolly Parton can produce a script that
would meet the beloved comedic actor’s standards.
Until then, Jim Carrey’s fans should be sure to catch Sonic the Hedgehog 2!
Although Jim Carrey could likely still be a big, bankable Hollywood star if he wanted
to, it seems that the beloved comedic actor prefers to stay at his California ranch and
work on his paintings and political cartoons.
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that Jim Carrey was the first actor to
ever receive $20 million to appear in a motion picture and that the actor is claiming that
he’s ready to retire after the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2?
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