Eastwood confessed to Carrey that he had loved what he had done: “I showed it to all my friends”
June 15, 2024, 17:30
Updated June 16, 2024, 10:32
Clint Eastwood He is a Hollywood legend and has marked the lives of countless people throughout the world. What many may not know is that he also played an essential role in the growth as an actor of Jim Carreywhich is why the protagonist of ‘The Truman Show’ will be eternally grateful.
“I went completely crazy”
Some of you may remember that Carrey has a small role in ‘The Blacklist’, the latest film in the ‘Dirty Harry’ franchise. At that time, the actor was going through a delicate moment in his career and Eastwood helped him regain his confidenceas he revealed when the author of ‘Unforgiven’ was awarded an AFI Life Achievement Award:
Clint Eastwood was one of my first supporters in the industry. At the time, I was a struggling actor, and I was hired to play the role of a crazed drug addict named Johnny Squares in the Dirty Harry movie called ‘The Blacklist.’ For the audition, they recorded me singing an Alice Cooper song. I went completely crazy, trashing the office, doing contortions, spitting at the camera. Afterwards I wondered if I had gone too far. At that time, I still worried about those things.
It was a reasonable fear, since that could have cost him the role, but The truth is that his way of proceeding delighted Eastwood. Carrey comments the following about his first meeting with him: “When I finally met Clint, he just told me “I loved your tape. I showed it to all my friends.”“. That motivated even more the protagonist of ‘A Crazy Man at Home’, who comments the following about his reaction:
Naturally, I was elated. He wanted to do the best job he could for this man. On the first day of filming, I showed up with a bunch of crazy ideas. I told: “I have a lot of ideas I want to try, Mr. Eastwood, if you don’t mind.“I was expecting a little resistance, but Clint looked at me, looked at producer David Valdes, and said, “Well, maybe we should turn the camera on and… let him go…”
Unfortunately, Eastwood and Carrey They haven’t worked together since.. What we do have is this video with the second one doing a parody of the first.
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