In order to do those things that flout convention and challenge people, make them angry, Andy was the better man for the job.”Ĭarrey hasn’t starred in a comedy since 2014’s “Dumb and Dumber To,” but this documentary gives context to recent outings like his New York Fashion Week red-carpet appearance September 8 at New York Harper’s Bazaar’s ICONS party. “I was wondering how much of that inside me is because I don’t have the same courage as Andy. “It was a choice as an actor to have Andy come back and make his movie, to push me aside,” Carrey said during an interview in Toronto to promote the documentary, which Netflix recently acquired.
Pitched somewhere between a punchline and psychosis, the result was one of his most remarkable, lived-in performances in a career filled with jarring slapstick creations. It shows that Carrey baffled everyone on set and beyond it, crashing parties and workplaces in character as he burrowed so far inside the role no one was sure he’d come back. Using 100 hours of behind-the-scenes footage from Milos’ Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic “Man in the Moon,” Carrey and director Chris Smith created “ Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond,” a documentary that details Carrey’s aggressive Method approach to portraying Kaufman and his abrasive, lounge-singing alter ego Tony Clifton.