(Dangerfield and Carrey were friends.) Though New Line considered Rick Moranis and Robin Williams for the role, it was Carrey who emerged as the frontrunner. But Chuck Russell was very aware of the actor thanks to his time producing the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School. The Mask was written for Jim Carrey.Īt the time work was underway on The Mask, Carrey was still best known for his work on In Living Color and in a series of supporting roles in films like Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Earth Girls Are Easy (1989). I have stretch marks on my knees for this! They called me ‘The Worm’ because it was close to my name the kinder ones called me ‘The Whip.’ You don’t know how many times I wished I had the mask.” 2. I weighed 90 pounds and grew 6 inches, from 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 10, in one year. “I was pretty much a loser geek in high school. “Stanley is me, sort of,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1994. Werb based the character in part on his own childhood. (Richardson and Mark Verheiden also worked on drafts of the script.) That Mask was, in the words of screenwriter Mike Werb, “very dark … Stanley ends up killing hundreds of people.” With director Chuck Russell, the two reshaped the story so that Stanley is more mischievous than homicidal. Instead of a mallet, the comic Stanley might whip out an axe and start chopping. (Comic creators Doug Mahnke, John Arcudi, and Chris Warner also worked on subsequent iterations of the character.) While the feature film wound up being a frenzied comedy, the source material was considerably less humorous. The Mask is based on a comic book concept by Mike Richardson and Mark Badger that originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents in 1987. The comic book The Mask was based on was much darker than the movie. Check out some facts about the film and character Carrey once called “Fred Astaire on acid.” 1. alone and, to the anguish of parents everywhere, prompted kids to scream “Sssssmokin’!” at each other for months afterward. In The Mask, the malleable actor-who had previously been best known for his work on Fox’s sketch hit In Living Color-tackled the role of bank teller Stanley Ipkiss, who finds an enchanted mask made by Norse god Loki that helps him unleash his id by becoming a maniacal, green-faced superhero who can alter reality for his own amusement. Jim Carrey had a year unlike any other actor in 1994, in which he starred in three number one comedies: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask, which was sandwiched in between.
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