On a recent evening in a Los Angeles hotel room, Jim Carrey said that he was no longer Jim Carrey – at least not in the way he used to be.

“I use his name,” Carrey explained, his lanky form folding onto a couch, clad entirely in black. “That’s the mailing address.”

On a deeper level, though, the Carrey personality has faded. And now, at the age of 55, the actor is attempting to live as fully as possible without any masks or pretenses, allowing himself to float freely through the vast, unending farce of life.

“There’s always going to be two worlds: the absolute and the relative,” Carrey explained. “And the absolute is the understanding that there’s only one thing: There’s just a field of energy, and there’s no you or I involved. It’s just happening.”

When Carrey signed on to “Man on the Moon,” he was fresh off the acclaimed 1998 satire “The Truman Show,” so it seemed only natural that he would approach the role of Kaufman with the same spirit of playfulness and total commitment. Carrey’s portrayal would eventually become more than a Method acting exercise, bordering on an out-of-body experience.

Carrey had an on-off relationship with the Irish make-up artist who had a history of depression
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“Somewhere in the background, there’s a little piece of Jim going, ‘Oh, no, you’re not going to do that.’ But I was just along for the ride.”

“I didn’t black out, but the balance was way in Andy’s corner,” Carrey, who went on to win a Golden Globe for his role in the film, remarked. “I broke a couple of times on weekends and stuff, but pretty much from when I woke up to when I went to bed, the choices were all his.”

Carrey’s insistence on staying in character irritated those around him at times, such as when he would hurl foul-mouthed abuse at director Milos Forman while playing Kaufman-as-Clifton. Despite this, the actor never stopped. “I love Milos and I respect him greatly, but Tony doesn’t,” Carrey remarked. “Somewhere in the background, there’s a little piece of Jim going, ‘Oh, no, you’re not going to do that.’ But I was just along for the ride.”

The behind-the-scenes video from “Man on the Moon,” taken by Kaufman’s longterm lover Lynne Margulies and his close friend and creative collaborator Bob Zmuda, was originally meant to be published with the film as a promotional add-on. However, Universal Pictures opted not to put it out there.

“They didn’t want it to be seen by anyone,” Carrey explained. “They were protecting my persona. It was a scary thing.”

How Jim Carrey reacted when he was told he had 10 minutes left to live

7/2020

After a missile alert was accidentally issued in Hawaii, Jim Carrey explained what went through his mind when he felt he only had 10 minutes to live.

The actor and comedian was in Hawaii in January 2018, on a call about his semi-autobiographical novel, when his assistant, Linda, FaceTimed him with the news from the other side of the island.

“She said, ‘There are missiles coming, and they’re going to land in 10 minutes. This is real.’ And as she was strenuously clutching her iPhone, she accidentally took a screenshot of my face,” Carrey recalls in a Q feature interview with co-author Dana Vachon.

While recounting the experience, Carrey told Jimmy Fallon about a blurred photo of himself that is being used as the cover for his memoir, Memoirs and Misinformation, on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“That cover is actually my face after being told that I had 10 minutes to live. And that’s for real. A fake missile alert in Hawaii. I was there. I was writing. My assistant Linda called me, she was crying, she said, ‘We have 10 minutes left.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘The missiles are coming’,” according to the 58-year-old.

“I couldn’t get off the island. The question was posed — should we all try to get together? I said, ‘I don’t want to die in my car.’ And we had to say goodbye.”

Jim Carrey gave E! News one of the most awkward interviews EVER on Friday night at Harper’s Bazaar’s NYFW party ( Image: AFP)

As a result, Carrey said that he spent what he believed to be his dying moments in a serene environment.

He recounted, “I sat on the lanai and looked out at the ocean,” “At that point, I just started going, ‘OK, well, what can I do with this last moment of time?'”

“I just decided to go through a list of gratitudes. Honest to God, I just could not stop thinking of wonderful things that have happened to me and blessings that I’ve had. It was lovely. And I got to a point of grace with about two minutes to spare when I found out it wasn’t actually happening. And all I was planning to do was close my eyes and be thankful because it’s been a good ride,” he said.

With only two minutes left, Carrey received a call from co-author Dana Vachon, who informed him that it was a false alarm.

“It’s a part of me. It’s a part of this book,” says Carrey, reflecting on whether the experience changed him. “When all is lost, then all is found.”

“I got p***** off and heads rolled,” Carrey remarked when asked how he responded to the news that the warning was a mistake.

According to The New York Times, the notice, which was sent in January 2018, was ultimately determined to be the product of “human error,”