Jim Carrey is apparently ready to retire from his legendary acting career, after 40 years in the biz.
The 60-year-old actor was promoting his next (and final?) movie, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Access Hollywood when interviewer Kit Hoover mentioned that Dolly Parton wants him to play her, ‘music partner,’ Porter Wagoner.
While Carrey was intrigued, he said he had not heard that, when he casually mentioned he was ‘retiring,’ and while Hoover didn’t know if he was joking or not, he said, ‘Yeah, probably’ and he was, ‘being fairly serious’ about it.
Still, he doesn’t seem entirely certain, adding, ‘It depends, if the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s gonna be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I’m taking a break.’
‘I really like my quiet life and I really love putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life,’ Carrey continued.
He added, ‘I feel like – and I feel like this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists – I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough.’
When it came to the potential Dolly Parton biopic, Carrey admitted, ‘I will always talk to Dolly. Dolly is, just to me, an other-worldly that is just bigger than you can imagine.’
While Carrey doesn’t have any more movie projects lined up past Sonic the Hedgehog 2, in theaters April 8, he is returning in a new Netflix special honoring Bob Saget, with Chris Rock, John Mayer, John Stamos and Jeff Ross.
‘Bob was just an absollute gem of a human being. He was loving, he was funny, he was sick. His sense of humor was off-the-charts sick,’ Carrey said.
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He added he was the type of person who you can’t, ‘cut together who he really was’ by the kind of work he did, adding they would, ‘pantomime mutilating each other every time we saw each other.’
He added Saget was, ‘just a lovely guy to everybody,’ and he was one of the first people he connected with when he moved to Los Angeles.
The special was filmed at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles in January, slated to air on Netflix this June.
Carrey also revealed that he will be turning his artwork into NFT’s, stating that he has, ‘a website landing in April and it’s called Magic Hour.’
‘I’m going to present some kooky art that is a mix of painting and spoken word that delves into my existential musings,’ Carrey said.
Source: Daily Mail
