Overview
- Entertainment Weekly recaps that Carrey’s first day in the chair ran about 8.5 hours, with daily transformations later ranging between three and eight hours and prompting panic attacks.
- Producer Brian Grazer says Carrey offered to return his $20 million fee before Grazer brought in Richard Marcinko, a former U.S. Navy SEAL commander known for training CIA operatives in torture endurance.
- Carrey has detailed coping tactics taught for the set, including punching his leg, hitting a friend’s arm, rearranging room patterns, listening to the radio and Bee Gees tracks, and using a long cigarette holder to protect the itchy yak-hair suit.
- Reddit and TikTok have recently resurfaced older interview clips, with some viewers expressing shock at the confirmed behind-the-scenes ordeal and saying it has changed how they watch the film.
- A separate TikTok highlighted a brief continuity error showing Carrey’s brown eyes instead of the Grinch’s green, as the 2000 film continues to be widely watched during the holidays.