On October 7, 2018, at the festival of The New Yorker, US President Donald Trump was publicly called a traitor. This accusation came from the world famous person, the guest star of the festival - Jim Carrey. After such a loud statement, journalists pounced on the actor and asked, including: if he wants to go into politics. Kerry replied, "No, not with my past." Jim Carrey's past is 56 years of life, in which there was nothing criminal, if it's serious. But there was a lot of things according to the principle: sometimes cold, sometimes hot.
Childhood and adolescence: break through at any cost
The future actor was born in Canada on January 17, 1962, the fourth child in the family of the accountant Percy Kerry and the former singer Kathleen Kerry (Oram). Jim's mother constantly complained about her health. Her eternal hypochondria even raised doubts among acquaintances about her mental normality. At some point, my father was left without work, and the family had to go through very difficult years. Jim, like all other children, from an early age was forced to earn money by cleaning industrial premises.
At seventeen, Jim gets a job at a steel plant. At the same time, he is trying to find a job in show business. From an early age, Jim liked to make friends laugh with grimaces and parodies of famous people. One of his favorite characters played by Kerry was the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev. At the age of 15, his father helped Jim perform comedy numbers at a local club. This performance failed. Jim was literally booed and pelted with eggs. Two years later, Jim decided on another performance in the same club and, this time, everything went whiter or less successfully. Jim worked at the factory, performed comedy numbers at the club and sang in the music group he created.
Comedian and … comedian again
According to Jim himself, if he had not had a career as an artist, he would have worked all his life at the plant. However, the entire further biography of Jim Carrey shows that his path into show business simply could not fail. He was called the best parodist in America and then ceased to be noticed. He was awarded the Golden Raspberry Prize, but in a star nomination. He was called one of the most overrated actors, but continued to pay $ 20 million for the role.
Inhuman grimaces, fantastic hairstyles and incredible plasticity made Jim Carrey recognizable from one or two frames. However, this is not the secret of his success.
In 1983, Kerry played his first film role. It was the movie "Rubber Face". Over the next ten years, he took part in the filming of a dozen more films, but none of these works brought him any serious money or fame. In 1993 he was offered the lead role in Ace Ventura: Pet Tracking. Prior to that, all the famous comedians, who were offered the main role in it, refused to shoot in the film one by one. Jim agreed, but on condition: he would rewrite the script. The producers had no choice. Jim significantly changed the script for himself - for his comic abilities and for his understanding of humor. The film was released and received negative reviews from critics. Nevertheless, in cinemas, viewers voted for the picture with their hard-earned money. The collection was $ 100 million. For this film, Kerry was nominated for Best Comedy Actor and Worst Rising Star (the first but not the last Golden Raspberry in Jim's life).
The following year, Jim Carrey starred in The Mask. The film turned out to be fantastically successful and was nominated for every possible film award. For Jim himself, "The Mask" was the last film, the fee for the main role in which was less than a million dollars. Now he has become a star, and everyone understood it.
Then there were "Dumb and Dumber", "Batman Forever", "Ace Ventura 2", "Liar Liar" and almost three dozen other films, most of which brought Jim another nomination for one or another award. Beginning with each new work, Jim Carrey got so used to the role that he required the directors to address him on the set exclusively by the name of the hero. He tried to do all the difficult tricks on his own in order to better feel the image. Once, doing somersaults on the court, he fell on his back and was seriously injured. Nevertheless, barely standing up, he immediately joked in the spirit of his character. He repeatedly deviated from the script, improvising in one scene or another and, as a rule, turned out to be right - it was better that way.
Jim became the highest paid comedian, but dreamed of proving that he could play dramatic roles. He succeeded in the movie "The Truman Show", but … probably not for himself. After at least a few experiments with dramatic roles, Kerry has returned to comedies where he feels at his best.
Family, personal life, wives and girlfriends of Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey's parents did not live up to his finest hour, but, according to him, he owes all his success to them. His father, despite the seriousness of the accounting profession, had an enviable sense of humor, never panicked and knew how to cheer up the environment. These qualities were adopted from him and Jim. Jim took the idea for the costume of Stanley Ipkiss, the hero of the movie "The Mask," from his mother.
Jim's first marriage - with Melissa Womer, who worked in the club where he performed in his youth, lasted nine years. Melissa gave birth to a daughter, Jim, who recently became a mother herself. Family life with Melissa went wrong after the death of Carrie's parents. Jim then fell into depression, but, subsequently, came out of it, switching his attention to sports and a healthy lifestyle. This did not save the family.
A year after the divorce, Jim married his Dumb and Dumber co-star, Lauren Holly. This marriage lasted less than a year. Then his girlfriend was actress Renee Zellweger. After her - fashion model Jenny McCarthy … In subsequent years, Jim changed many friends, which is not surprising. He is not only a talented and sought-after actor, but also a handsome man, which has been officially recognized by show business publications more than once. Jim himself, in the end, came to the conclusion that there are no eternal feelings, and you can give your partner all your love in just a few years.
