Jim Carrey lifts the lid on working with Tommy Lee Jones on Batman Forever...
Tommy Lee Jones has a reputation as an actor with intensity, who doesn't suffer fools - and sometimes not fools - gladly. And rumours had done the rounds around the time that Joel Schumacher was shooting Batman Forever that he and co-star Jim Carrey didn't get on particularly well for a start.
Turns out those rumours had some substance to them. Bluntly: they didn't.
Chatting on The Howard Stern Show, Carrey was asked directly whether they got along or not, and he said that "I was really looking forward to working with Tommy, but he was a little crusty. I think he was just a little freaked out because Dumb And Dumber came out on the same weekend as Cobb, and Cobbwas his big swing for the fences and that didn't work out. And that freaked him out a bit."
In particular, Carrey recalled meeting Tommy Lee Jones for the first time. "I walked into a restaurant the night before our big scene in the Riddler's lair. I went up to say hi and the blood drained from his face in such a way that I realized that I had become the face of his pain."
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Carrey continued, saying that "he got up, kind of shaking, hugged me and said 'I hate you. I really don't like you.'" When Carrey questioned him as to why, Tommy Lee Jones replied that "I cannot sanction your buffoonery."
"He did not want to work with me," Carrey concluded.
Carrey was on the show as he kicked off promotional duties for this winter's Dumb And Dumber To. Tommy Lee Jones isn't co-starring in that one, and you won't be surprised to hear that the pair haven't worked together since Batman Forever. We wouldn't bet a sweet wrapper on them doing so again...
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