Jim Carrey Wants The Play The Grinch Again

ComicBook.com recently asked Jim Carrey whether there was a role from his cherished film career that he would most like to reprise. His response? As long as he used motion capture, that is. The comic has no interest in spending hours in the makeup chair going through a "painful" change.

Based on Dr. Seuss's 1957 children's book of the same name, Ron Howard's 2000 Christmas epic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" featured Carrey as the main character. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the movie made $346 million worldwide and was a box office success. "Grinch," starring Carrey, was the highest-grossing movie in the United States and the sixth-highest-grossing movie worldwide in 2000.

The transformation of Carrey into the Grinch was unpleasant, even though the film received three Oscar nominations and won for makeup and hairstyling. According to special effects makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji, who previously disclosed that he sought treatment after working with Carrey on his Grinch transformation because the actor was so challenging in the makeup chair, it was "excruciating" for the actor and a headache for Tsuji.

Tsuji said that he was so worn out by Carrey that he was given permission to take a break from the project by Rick Baker, the lead makeup artist for the movie. Weeks into his vacation, Tsuji finally got a call from Carrey requesting that he come back. Although Carrey's final thinking at the conclusion of shooting was, "if I had a choice, I would not be in this mental state all the time," Tsuji said that he "kept his temper in check" for the rest of the filming.