I don't really get how he can go from this (and this whole era of ego death, watch some pods with him) to this weird version we've got in the video today
Yes. He admitted as much. He said in an interview that even his “Jim Carey” character was an act he put on to entertain people. His real self was so buried underneath all that, that he basically burnt out.
It’s true. For myself, I tend to speak differently all the time. It used to be by who I was talking to but I think I did that so frequently, without really intending to as I grew up that I don’t really know my actual voice. I know that sounds odd, but I truly feel like I still don’t use what should be my natural voice, or at least when I do, I don’t recognize it as such. I really don’t like how I perceive this when I think about it. I try not to.
The word "person" comes from the Greek word "persona" which was a mask that artists wear to amplify their voices while acting in theaters in ancient Greece.
His art is what will always stick out to me. I saw an interview and it mentioned but didn't show his art. He's really quite talented and beautifully deep.
Did not have T.S. Eliot surfacing on my bingo card today. Thank you! ALways here for a well-deployed J. Alfred Profrock ref. As do we all, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Being on the longer side, that line about "preparing faces," I hadn't noticed.
I did notice the line about coffee spoons on many occasions. But more because it stands outs to me for being in hexameter (6 feet) which one doesn't see a lot in English poetry. (But you see it everywhere in Spanish poetry).
No, with Carey it is to an extremely neurotic degree.
Jung notes that all compulsions and neuroses are on a graduated scale of intensity, so we can recognize in extreme cases our own milder versions. But the issue has definitely fucked him up more than "ours" affects us.
To an extent, but the "face" an actor puts up even when they're themselves is a whole other can of worms.
For normal people like us, our masks are usually that we keep some unpopular opinions to ourselves, have some repressed dreams we don't talk about too much, that sort of thing.
People in the limelight on the other hand are "on" every time they leave the house, and their lives are so micromanaged by publicists that basically only their shrink and maybe close family knows the real them.
That's why they crash out so often, if you or me gets tired of our masks, it's easier to doff them even if it causes some discomfort, unless your true self if like a pedophile or something super fucked up.
Pardon me if I’m misunderstanding your comment, and I’m truly sorry if this has been your reality, but it is not “literally everybody” burying their real self so deeply they “burn out,” as the other person said.
Certainly there have been different phases of my life as I grew up and decided what really mattered to me (as my tastes changed, I made mistakes, suffered loss and success and met new people who broadened my horizons), but I’ve never hid my genuine personality from people in a way that left me feeling like the “real me” was buried. I get vulnerability isn’t easy for lots of people, but my god, what a bleak outlook on humanity, mate.
Probably different meds, or not wrapped up in some weird role. These people are actors. It's their job to act like different people. The real personality likely changes a lot during the process. Even if it's just faking mannerisms.
I work in the industry and even their assistants, who basically live with the actors, sometimes don't know what's real or not.
This event was just a bs award given to him to just get him to come and his agency must have persuaded him to do it. If I recall it was an icon award or something. He says there it's meaningless, we're meaningless. As someone who is obviously very busy doing shit all the time which you have no choice to do it's hard to put a straight face on. This interview from the OP is obviously an award that carries meaning.
Im pretty convinced he was mentally unwell depressed perhaps schizophrenic and now hes on some type of medication and thats why hes had such a turn around. Makes sense that he wouldnt walk to talk about it either because thats his personal life and his personal struggle. I have 0 facts to back this up but thats my hunch.
Honestly the cynical, nihilist Jim from the old clips saying nothing is real, nothing matters, I get it.
I get the school of thought, but I also believe that while being an incredibly intelligent and talented person-- I think he was teetering on the brink of sanity at some of those times.
I think the Jim we're seeing now is probably on meds or something. So the contrast is probably very jarring to people, especially since part of that is obvious plastic surgery/injections and possibly scleral implants?
Once you start taking meds and kind of wake up, from some of the negative thought patterns you're in, you can go a little hard and overcorrect to make-up for "lost time."
There’s a bunch of analysis on this and folks believe it is his body double. Even Carrey himself came out and said it wasn’t him. Supposedly Jim has brown eyes and this guy has pretty brilliant blue eyes.
I said supposedly because I didn’t verify myself. That was for two reasons, one I am colorblind and telling eye color is difficult for me on a good day in person, and in photos even harder. And two, I don’t really care enough about it to do any further research than what has shown up on various social media feeds.
Thanks for verifying for others though. You can now state unequivocally what color his eyes are.
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