Jim Carrey suffered ‘vicious confrontation’ with Hollywood star

Later today, at 3:55pm on ITV2, Jim Carrey stars in the 2008 comedy Yes Man. The actor loved sharing the screen with his co-star, Zooey Deschanel, but not every actor he has worked with over the years has felt the same way. In particular, he had a furious run-in with his Batman Forever co-star, Tommy Lee Jones, who took a powerful disliking of him.

In 1995’s Batman Forever, Carrey played The Riddler, Bruce Wayne’s annoying genius nemesis who caused crimes with riddles and puzzles. Opposite him, Jones played Two-Face, the second half of the crime-creating duo against Val Kilmer’s version of the Caped Crusader.

However, things between the two actors turned brutal during filming. Carrey looked back on working with Jones while on the Norm Macdonald Live podcast back in 2018.

Carrey recalled going to dinner one night and bumping into the actor while they were filming, and things got very heated.

He remembered: “The maitre d’ said: ‘Oh, I hear you’re working with Tommy Lee Jones. He’s over in the corner having dinner.'”

The comedian decided to go and greet his co-star and colleague, but things instantly went wrong.

Carrey greeted Jones: “Hey Tommy, how are you doing?” But he got the worst response imaginable.

The star recalled: “The blood just drained from his face.” He noted that it looked as if Jones had been “thinking about me for 24 hours a day”.

“He got up shaking,” he went on. “He must have been in a mid-kill-me fantasy or something like that.”

Jones stood up, hugged Carrey tightly, and whispered to him: “I hate you. I really don’t like you.”

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Carrey, naturally, tried to defuse the situation. He continued: “I said: ‘What’s the problem?’ And pulled up a chair [to his dinner table], which probably wasn’t smart.” Jones bitterly replied: “I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”

Jones’ aggressive actions were corroborated by Batman Forever’s director, Joel Schumacher, in a separate interview. He said: “I said Tommy Lee Jones was an as***le in People magazine … he was fabulous on The Client. But he was not kind to Jim Carrey when we were making Batman Forever.”

Interestingly, Schumacher had a theory about why Jones did not get on with Carrey during their time working together. He mused that Jones was irritated by Carrey’s extremely outrageous personality.

He said: “Tommy is, and I say this with great respect, a scene stealer. Well, you can’t steal the scene from Jim Carrey. It’s impossible. And, I think it irked Tommy.”

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Schumacher confirmed that Jones was “not kind” to Carrey during the film’s shooting.

He added: “[Jones] did not act towards Jim the way an Oscar winner with a star on Hollywood Boulevard – being the oldest member of the cast, and having such a distinguished career and the accolades to go with it – should have acted towards Jim. But what happens on the set stays on the set.”

Since Batman Forever wrapped, Carrey and Jones have not worked together again. Despite the fact their movie was a huge success.

Batman Forever made a staggering amount of money. Although the movie was made on a staggering $100 million budget, it earned a whopping $336 million at the box office.

Schumacher later returned to the series to direct a sequel – Batman & Robin – two years later in 1997.

Since then, Carrey has made a few more enemies in the industry. One notable issue arose after he starred in Kick-Ass 2 as the vigilante Colonel Stars and Stripes.

After the movie was released, however, he released a statement which read: “I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence.”

The film’s writer, John Romita Jr, later responded: “I know I’ll never work with that bonehead again, so let me say this. I think Mark [Millar] and I have talked about this before, but here’s a guy who could have capitalised on the character he played and played it toward his anti-gun stance. The character he played gave up weapons — gave up guns — and became a good guy. Anybody with three quarters of an education could have figured out how to fold that idea in with their anti-gun ideas. He’s not a smart enough guy to do that. He cashed his check and took his money, and then he went and pulled a bunch of c**p on our film.”

Yes Man hits ITV2 at 3:55pm.

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