You won't believe the one movie Jim Carrey regrets making

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11 Oct 2022, 14:52

This must hit movie makers where it hurts. There's one film Hollywood star Jim Carrey would rather not have been in. Ace Ventura? The Mask? The Truman Show? Sonic the Hedgehog? Nope, it's none other than playing Captain Stars & Stripes from the comic-book sequel Kick-Ass 2.

The 2013 sequel film sees Carrey as 'a masked vigilante and a born-again Christian' and is based on the graphic novel of the same name.

Just before the film was about to open, the tragic US shootings in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, happened killed 26 people.

Soon after the tragedy, which was deemed one of the worst mass shootings in history, Carrey became a prominent advocate of gun control and has turned his back on films containing excessive violence.

“I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence,” he wrote on Twitter in June 2013.

"I meant to say my apologies to others involved with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."

Kick-Ass 2 executive producer Mark Millar wrote at the time: "I'm baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay 18 months ago.

"Yes, the body count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us Hit Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much…

"Like Jim, I'm horrified by real-life violence (even though I'm Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn't a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production!

"This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless bodycount of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence… Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action movie."