Jim Carrey on His Upcoming Films: Asked what he’s up to next, Carrey replied, “Well, I’m working on Ripley’s Believe It or Not! with Tim Burton… Yeah, it’s going to be really fun. And at the moment I’m doing Horton Hears a Who - the cartoon version of Horton Hears a Who - which is going to be beautiful. I love, and have always loved all Dr Seuss [stories] and I’m lucky enough to have been the Grinch. Audrey Geisel, Dr Seuss’ widow, liked what I did and she asked me to do Horton.”
Carrey says the idea of playing Horton the elephant really appealed to him. “I love that idea that a person is a person no matter how small and the idea of worlds within worlds within worlds. Because sometimes I sit out in my backyard and I look at the birds, and a hummingbird will come down ‘wap’ goes flying past my head and will threaten me and stuff like that. I realize that he has no respect for my deed to the land, you know? That’s his property as far as he’s concerned. And that’s just the reality… We think that we’re the ones in control. Everybody does.”
Reuniting with Steve Carell: Carrey and Carell worked together on Bruce Almighty and now Carell’s taken over the lead role for the sequel, Evan Almighty. Carrey had no problem with Carell starring in the follow-up to his 2003 hit. “Oh, I think it's wonderful. I think he's an amazing talent so I think he'll do a great job. I think it'll be good,” said Carrey.
Although Carrey and Carell are both providing voices in Horton Hears a Who – Carrey as Horton and Carell as the Mayor of Who-Ville – they probably won’t see each other until it’s time to do press for that animated family film. “Everybody pretty much does their thing solo in those cartoons,” explained Carrey. “We'll be promoting it together I'm sure.”
Jim Carrey’s Really Looking Forward to Ripley’s: “It’s going to be wonderful. It’s just an incredible world to open up, you know? He was very much the champion of the underdog and people who were a little bit different and freakish. He was about celebrating life. He was about proving its specialness.”
The Long and Winding Road to Ripley’s: Production was supposed to have begun a while back but there have been a series of delays that have pushed the start of production on Ripley’s back. Carrey’s now pretty sure production will actually begin in earnest in early 2008 and says it was never a matter of financing the film. “No, financing never went away. We just got kind of close to going into production and I just felt like the script wasn't quite where it could have been. I had a lot of ideas that would have facilitated a change in plan, a change of approach to the production of it, so I just thought it could be more than it was.”
