Look, Christmas movie preferences are i of the almost subjective (read: polarising) topics in the history of conversation, so while I merely can't exist assed watching Love Actually, all the while obsessing over The Grinch, I fully understand that other people probs think I'one thousand a mad human being. And then again, I did grow upwardly watching The Grinch every year, so of form I'm a mad man. Look at the man I aspire to:

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And it's not just the graphic symbol himself who's mad, information technology turns out Jim Carrey (i of my fave comedians) besides went a lil mad on the set of the iconic 2000 film.

I pitched this story in our recent Christmas features meeting, thinking that at to the lowest degree a few of my colleagues will have heard the wild yarn near Jim Carrey's Grinch costume, merely it turns out that non a lot of people know about this, so buckle up, bbs. You're in for a wild 1.

Apparently the big, hairy, green Grinch costume was an absolute NIGHTMARE to attach to Jim Carrey'southward body. The procedure involved facial prosthetics, being encased head-to-toe in green yak fur and enlarged contact lenses being inserted over his eyes.

Carrey once described the process as "being cached alive every day," saying it took 8 and a half hours in total, although head make-up artist Rick Baker has recalled it existence more than similar two and a half hours. The fact that there's contention over how long it took gives you just an indication of how bewildering the whole process was, plus its impact on the people involved.

Because the process was so harrowing, Carrey became increasingly hard to work with and, I mean, yous would. Makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji, who worked under Bakery, remembered in an interview with Vulture how "mean" Carrey was to everybody.

"After two weeks we merely could finish three days' worth of shooting schedule, because suddenly he would but disappear and when he came back, everything was ripped apart. We couldn't shoot annihilation," he revealed.

On one particularly horrendous solar day, Carrey lost his shit at Tsuji.

"In the makeup trailer he simply all of a sudden stands upwardly and looks in the mirror, and pointing on his chin, he goes, 'This colour is different from what you did yesterday.' I was using the aforementioned color I used yesterday. He says, 'Fix it.' And okay, y'all know, I 'fixed' information technology. Every day was like that," Tsuji recalled.

The makeup artist became and then mentally exhausted that he ultimately had to take a break from the film to seek therapy.

"I went back under ane status," Tsuji said. "I was talking with my friends, and they all told me, 'You lot should ask for a raise earlier you become dorsum.' I didn't want to do that – kind of nasty. So I got the idea: How about I enquire them to help me to get a Green Bill of fare?" [Editor's note: a Green Card is permanent residency in the U.s.]. Light-green carte du jour. Dark-green. Grinch green. Oh the irony.

With letters of recommendation from the filmmakers and BAFTA and Oscars wins for Best Make-up nether his belt, Tsuji's application was approved, although returning to product meant that he had to seek therapy over how unhappy he was at work.

"If I had a choice, I would not be in this mental state all the time," he remembers thinking.

Meanwhile, Carrey was still going through his own hell over the "horrifying" feel of becoming the Grinch. Then, 92 days in, producer Brian Grazer brought in a human being whose job it is to train CIA operatives on how to suffer torture in order to help him deal with the pain of the makeup chair.

Do y'all sympathise how cooked this is? They literally hired a man who trains people to deal with TORTURE in case they're captured in battle to bargain with the hurting of DRESSING UP Equally THE GRINCH.

In a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Carrey revealed the advice he was given past the good was this: "Consume everything you lot see. If you're freaking out and you beginning to spiral downwards, turn the telly on, alter a pattern, accept someone y'all know come upwardly and smack you in the head, punch yourself in the leg or smoke every bit much as yous mayhap can."

Fucking heavy, hey?

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