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Jim Carrey : I learned that you can fail at what you don't love, so you might as well do what you love. Jim Carrey : Where did this character come from? What is the dirt that the pearl is built around? And the pearl is the personality that you build around yourself as a protection against that thought: "If they ever find out that I'm worthless, if they ever find out that I'm not enough, I'll be destroyed". Jim Carrey : At some point when you create yourself to make it, you're going to have to either let that creation go and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are, or you're going to have to kill who you really are and fall into your grave grasping a character you never were.

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A behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon Jim Carrey : I learned that you can fail at what you don't love, so you might as well do what you love. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Play trailer Director Chris Smith. See production info at IMDbPro. Top credits Director Chris Smith. Videos 1.

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Comedian Jim Carrey is no stranger to method acting. But those around him noticed that the comedian tended to go too far when immersing himself in his roles.

Chris Smith's on-set documentary about Jim Carrey channeling Andy Kaufman is a ticklish meditation on comedy and identity. By Owen Gleiberman. Chief Film Critic. He wanted to leave you amazed. He was, in that way, the very soul of showbiz.

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I look to him in the way that I extend to few performers: he's more of a truth-speaking prophet than just a person. Videos 1. Through dramatic re-creations of phone conversations caught on FBI wiretaps, the film, out March 17 on Netflix , revisits the bribery story. Maybe I didn't want to process it. Chris Smith. Self archive footage uncredited Christian Schmook Carrey's full immersion into the role has caused controversy, though the documentary never stoops to making you feel a particular way and invites you to question Carrey's techniques and skills. Sammy Davis Jr. Bobby Wheeler archive footage as Jeff Conway. Comedian Jim Carrey is no stranger to method acting. This edition would have been a great addition as a special feature to Man on the Moon but on its own it is completely unnecessary and futile. That being said, this is a must see documentary, it's transcendental on all levels or perhaps it's just normal and the way it should be and is on the human level, but we're all living in such a backwards world that we see transcending as related to a spiritual or a non physical realm, but perhaps transcendental is just normal, the way it should be. Self Peter Bonerz

It was released on November 17, , through the streaming service Netflix. The film alternates between contemporary interviews with Carrey and firsthand footage of the making of Man on the Moon almost 20 years earlier. According to Carrey, Universal Pictures had withheld the behind-the-scenes footage much of it originally shot by Kaufman's former girlfriend, Lynne Margulies "so that people wouldn't think [he] was an asshole".

Jim Carrey : How far should I take this? This was not needed and a waste of time. A complicated public figure, Carrey has quite clearly been through some deep personal issues and while it's refreshing to see such frankness come across from the actor, quite a bit of what his talking about is either cringe worthy or just plain odd, while filmmaker Chris Smith really missed out on his chance to include insights from other figures involved in the film such as Paul Giamatti or other co-stars on the filming of Man on the Moon. I look to him in the way that I extend to few performers: he's more of a truth-speaking prophet than just a person. At some point you have to live, you know, your true man. I found it to be really fascinating and involving. Andy Kaufman possessed Jim Carrey. Recently viewed. Clear your history. Self - President, Universal Studios. For most of that film Carrey stayed in character as Andy Kaufman or one of Kaufman's alter egos , and he describes the mindset he was in through it all. Many say he's dead and many say he's still alive somewhere, playing a big gag that we just don't know about. Self Linda Fields Hill With so many people nowadays complaining about the 'fake' or 'elite' Hollywood actors, it's nice to know that some of the people that we look up to are just as human as the rest of us.