Vulture has an oral history of the making of the live-action Grinch starring Jim Carrey.

One revelation was that the studio initially just wanted to paint Jim Carrey green. Makeup designer Rick Baker was against this and leaked it to Ain’t It Cool News and the backlash caused the studio to change their mind.

Jim Carrey’s makeup and costume required eight hours of set up and he was miserable inside it; “The suit was made of unnervingly itchy yak hair that drove me insane all day long. I had ten-inch-long fingers, so I couldn’t scratch myself or touch my face or do anything. I had teeth that I had to find a way to speak around, and I had full contact lenses that covered the entire eyeball, and I could only see a tiny tunnel in front of me.” Director Ron Howard said Carrey suffered from pan

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