Jim Carrey Is Open to Making a Sequel toThe Mask30 Years Later 'If Somebody Had the Right Idea'

Mar. 15, 2025

From L: Jim Carrey inThe Mask(1994) and in Los Angeles on April 5, 2022.Photo:New Line Cinema/Getty; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

New Line Cinema/Getty; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Nobody stopJim Carrey— he’s open to making a sequel toThe Mask!

The 62-year-old actor isn’t ruling out the possibility of returning as Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask in a potential follow-up to his hit 1994 comedy, in which he starred oppositeCameron Diaz.

Using his powers, Stanley must save his love interest Tina Carlyle (Diaz, 52) from mafioso Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene) while evading law enforcement.

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Back in 2022, while promotingSonic the Hedgehog 2, Carrey said he wasplanning on retiring from his acting career.

Of making the soon-to-be-releasedSonic the Hedgehog 3, the actor told theAssociated Presswith a smile at the film’s U.K. premiere in London on Tuesday, Dec. 10, “I came back to this universe because, first of all, I get to play a genius, which is a bit of a stretch. And, you know, it’s just … I bought a lot of stuff andI need the money, frankly.”

But as he clarified in his recent interview with ComicBook.com, “It’s not really about the money. I joke about the money … but I never know. You can’t be definite about these things.”

“I said I’d like to retire, but I think I was talking -resting. Because as soon as a good idea comes your way, or a group of people that you really enjoyed working with and stuff, it just — things tend to change,” Carrey added.

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Jim Carrey in London on Dec. 10, 2024.Joe Maher/Getty

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AndThe Maskisn’t the only iconic movie of Carrey’s that he’d be open to revisiting. He also recently toldComicBook.comthat he’d bedown to film a sequelto the live-actionHow the Grinch Stole Christmas— but only “if we could figure out the Grinch.”

“The thing about it is, on the day, I do that with a ton of makeup and can hardly breathe. It wasan extremely excruciating process," Carrey told the outlet. “The children were in my mind all the time: ‘It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids.' "

“And now, with motion capture and things like that, I could be free to do other things,” he added.“Anything is possible in this world.”

Sonic the Hedgehog 3zooms into theaters Dec. 20.

source: people.com