In an interview with France Inter, Eric Judor spoke of the unlikely encounter between American actor Jim Carrey and French director Michel Hazanavicius. The opportunity to discover the grain of madness of the Hollywood star.
Jim Carrey invested in his roles to the point of being almost possessed? During an interview recently granted in the show L’Embellie from France Inter, Eric Judor delivered an astonishing and almost disturbing anecdote about the Hollywood star, one of his favorite actors, to whom he had given the reply in the short film Pecan Pie by Michel Gondry.
At first not very convinced that Carrey was obsessively involved in his roles after seeing the documentary Jim and Andy, diving behind the scenes of the film Man on the Moon, Eric Judor changed his mind somewhat when Michel Hazanavicius told him about his meeting really like no other with the American actor.
“Michel Hazanavicus receives a screenplay that Jim Carrey would absolutely like to do”says Eric Judor, who wrote the foreword to America Unmaskedfilm critic’s book Adrien Denouette devoted to the Hollywood star. “The character in the film has an imaginary friend who would be a giant bear, a giant stuffed animal. I don’t know if it’s a rabbit or a bear, in short, a 2.50 meter tall stuffed animal, to whom he speaks regularly. And so, Michel goes to Los Angeles and has lunch with Jim Carrey.”
“Jim Carrey walks in, he says, ‘Okay, I’m going to have a salad and you, what do you want?’continues Judor. “Michel laughs, of course, and then Carrey continues. “You wanted something to drink, maybe? A soda ? Or a squeezed orange juice?” He continues to address his imaginary friend like that! Michel is laughing less and less, and then it lasts… all lunch! And it’s very long when you have a guy who talks with an imaginary character for an hour and a half.”
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“Obviously, it was very embarrassing”concludes Eric Judor. “So I don’t know if Michel authorized me to give this anecdote but I don’t care, I told it. So there is this where we see that Jim Carrey can be possessed and that he can show that ‘He’s possessed, and then what I saw of the Jim and Andy documentary, which was glory in the way he invested himself in his roles, which I half believed.”
The trailer for the documentary “Jim and Andy”: