Jim Carrey Criticizes His New Film
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VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Jim Carrey is calling attention to his new movie in an unusual way: by criticizing it.
Carrey logged on to Twitter Sunday to denounce the violence in Kick-Ass 2, which opens August 16. He wrote that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, in which 20 children and six adults were killed, changed his perspective on the R-rated film.
Carrey tweeted, “I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence.”
He continued, “[M]y apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.”
Carrey plays a baseball bat-carrying vigilante named Colonel Stars and Stripes in Kick-Ass 2.
Mark Millar, the writer of the comic book series on which the movies are based, and an executive producer of both Kick-Ass films, responded on his website that Carrey’s tweets were “surprising” to him.
He writes, “Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but I’m baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. …Ironically, Jim’s character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place.”
In March, Carrey poked fun at the National Rifle Association in a musical Funny Or Die sketch.
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