Last weekend's global box office results were released, with the debut Sonic The Hedgehog (aka Sonic Kid) topped the 700 million box office.
Sonic the Hedgehog
And today we want to introduce the big villain Dr. Egghead in this movie--- Jim Carrey, the first Hollywood superstar to earn $20 million and have the title of Hollywood comedy king. After experiencing the darkest time of depression, the king returned to the big screen again. And behind this comedy king who brings us laughter, there is unspeakable worry and darkness buried, and today I will take you into jim Carrey's dark life that he does not know.
Jim Carrey
Kim Carrey as a teenager
Jim Carrey was born in Canada on January 17, 1962, the youngest of four children. He grew up with a lot of acting and thought he had a talent for comedy. Jim Carrey's father may have become a musician, but in order to support the family and let the children of the family have a stable and practical life, he had to give up his dream and finally became an accountant. But unexpectedly, when Jim Carrey was 12 years old, his father was laid off by the company, the family's income was gone, and the family suddenly lost its dependence. In the end, there was no way but to live in the old campervan of a relative's family, where he lived for 8 months.
Jim Carrey's parents
In the most difficult days, the mother's health is also deteriorating, coupled with depression, long-term bedridden, so Jim Carrey every day to play treasure to make her mother happy, after school to do part-time work to maintain the family's expenses. Because of the work while taking care of her mother, So that there is a dyslexia, kim carrey herself is very difficult to study, forced to drop out of school, did not complete high school. In the end, Jim Carrey made the biggest decision in her life to become a comedian. Although his mother did not approve of it, his father encouraged him to bravely pursue his dreams.
At one opportunity, he performed at the Comedy Club, and his father did his best to support and assist Himeri to put on the first talk show of his life. Although the result of the performance was applauded by the entire audience, some audience members even threw rotten tomatoes at him. But this failure did not make Jim Carrey shrink back and give up, but also made him determined that he would succeed. He constantly looked for opportunities to star, and gradually his acting skills and reputation were slowly affirmed by the audience.
Carrey's acting career
In 1979, at the age of 17, Jim Carrey went to New York alone to work, and in the process of finding acting opportunities, Jim Carrey was caught by some comedy filmmakers and let him play the dragon set. In 1983, Jim Carrey began to have his own role under the screen. But his life has not changed because of this, and he still lives very hard. In 1992, Jim Carrey wrote himself a check on a blank piece of paper with $10 million, cashed on Thanksgiving Day in 1995, in the hope that he would earn the $10 million in three years. Later, miracles also occurred. Jim Carrey first starred in "Detective Plane Head" in 1994, and starred in "Stranger in Disguise" in the same year, setting a box office record of $23 million in its premiere week. These news also indicate that Jim Carrey is out of the blue. The last film of the same year, Dumb and Agua, took advantage of the success and made $16 million in its premiere week alone, making Jim Carrey the brightest star in Hollywood. Then later movies such as "Batman Forever" and "Detective Plane Head 2" made Jim Carrey's salary reach $20 million, becoming the first hollywood superstar to enter the $20 million club, and also let him cash the check he wrote to himself.
Detective plane head
In disguise, It's weird
Dumb and Dumb
However, when Jim Carrey succeeded in 1994, his most supportive father also died that year, and he did not see his success in person. So Jim Carrey also exchanged the $10 million check written on white paper for a real $10 million check and put it in his father's grave, thanking his father for his support and encouragement along the way, which became the motivation for him not to give up.
Batman forever
Jim Carrey's speed of popularity at that time was too fast, from an obscure little actor overnight to a superstar, which also made many veteran superstars who had been rolling in Hollywood for many years red, and tommy Lee Jones, the film emperor-level actor who worked with him in "Batman Forever", was one of them. Tommy Lee Jones played the two-faced man in "Batman Forever", and he himself did not voluntarily take on this role, this role made him suffer a lot, but also made Tommy Lee Jones angry at the time, the two had a chance encounter in a restaurant, making Tommy Lee Jones unbearable anger, seeing That Carey Kim Carrey become bloodless, and said in Jim Carrey's ear, "I hate you, I really don't like you". Jim Carrey also jokingly said that the picture in his mind at the moment was the picture of Tommy Lee Jones slashing and killing him. However, Jim Carrey also feels that Tommy Lee Jones has become so tense because he performed this work that is not suitable for him, and also said that he still loves Tommy Lee Jones.
Carrey's love career
Jim Carrey's love career was quite bumpy, and he first had an 8-month relationship with the singer Linda Langsde, who was 16 years older than him, and finally died without a problem. In 1987, Jim Carrey married actress Melissa and gave birth to a daughter, but divorced by agreement in 1995. Jim Carrey later fell in love with Loren, the heroine of the drama "Dumb and Agua", and married on September 23, 1996, but the marriage ended in less than 1 year. Later, Jim Carrey met Renee Zellweger in the movie "One First Two Big", but the two only got engaged until the engagement stage, and ended the relationship in December 2000. By 2005, Jim Carrey met playboy Jeanne McCarthy, and the relationship lasted until 2010, when they announced their breakup. After the breakup, Jim Carrey and Casalina White, a makeup artist 25 years younger than herself, sparked love, and the two split up, and finally ended the relationship in 2015.
Ex-girlfriend funeral Kim Carrey Fu Ling
On September 28, 2015, five days after breaking up with Jim Carrey, the woman was found to have committed suicide by taking medicine at home, and left a suicide note to Jim Carrey. The autopsy report later indicated that the cause of death was due to an overdose. Casalina's ex-husband jumped out and accused Jim Carrey of using a pseudonym to buy medicine for Casarina, thus killing her, so he sued Jim Carrey for negligence. This lawsuit also made Jim Carrey very angry, saying that Casalina's ex-husband simply wanted to profit from this matter, and finally although Jim Carrey was found not guilty, the matter was also boiling over, and also made Jim Carrey begin to silently fade out of the show business circle.
Jim Carrey, who suffers from depression
Many comedians suffer from depression, and Jim Carrey is one of them, who has been diagnosed with depression in the past, sometimes having to take a lot of medicine to soothe his emotions or rely on various religions to seek peace of mind. This also deeply affected his concept of marriage and love, and Jim Carrey also said that in order to make his seriously ill mother happy, the sense of humor he had trained at that time came from despair. When He brings us laughter again, it is constantly raining inside. Jim Carrey remained a masked sad clown on the screen until she met her girlfriend, Jannie McCarthy, in 2005, when she was accompanied and gradually recovered. But after the two broke up, they encountered a movie that did not do well at the box office, and then his girlfriend Casalina also passed away, which plunged Jim Carrey into a deeper depression and disappeared from the screen.
But during his disappearance, he did not let himself fall deeper into it, but began to paint madly, he filled the whole home with paintings, and walked out of the low tide of life through painting, filling in the original black and white life with colors. Until the rain in his heart is over, it can rain and clear. Later, he also made this incident into a short film, so that everyone could not get out of the depression until he slowly came out.
Now he is back on the big screen through "Sonic the Hedgehog", hoping that Jim Carrey can continue to put down the mask of sadness on the big screen and continue to bring joy to the audience.