![]() The mindful nature of Jim Carrey’s current era career was ever present when getting to speak with him. You just chewed it up, and blew a bubble, man. It was innocent and beautiful, and you didn’t care what the bubble gum was gonna do to ya. Which is that at some point in our lives, we were these innocent, non-skeptical beings that enjoyed everything that popped up in the zeitgeist. I’m a demigod of evil, and it’s all in service of showing you, again, what matters. I play the Evil 3.0 quantum version of Robotnik in this, and there’s no limits to my powers. I play the contrast to this incredible innocence. Robotnik's role in Sonic 2, and why he feels it only enhances the film’s innocence: In Jim Carrey’s viewpoint, playing a baddie is just as important as having a hero as cool as Ben Schwartz’s Sonic in the mix. Playing the embodiment of comedic evil further helped Sonic the Hedgehog 2 separate itself from the standard sequel. 1995’s Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To hold those historic places on the Canadian-American actor’s resume, with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 making for the third sequel he's agreed to. In the past, Jim Carrey has gone on record about sequels, saying that sequels were “a function of commerce, for the most part.” Out of his entire filmography of memorable roles, Jim Carrey has only previously returned to two of those iconic characters he made famous. ![]() But, first of all, there was something sweet at the heart of it. It’s a kids movie, do you really want to do a kids movie?’ And I went, ‘Well, yeah,’ because kids appreciate movies like nobody else. The first time around there were people that looked at and went ‘I don’t know. ![]() I think it’s a lovely kind of reminder of innocence, and there was something sweet about this movie. ![]() In fact, Carrey told CinemaBlend that in his mind, Sonic 2 represented the following opportunity: As one of the many kids who grew up hoping that someday there’d be The Mask 2, to have the chance to ask why this sequel was so special was too good to pass up. That’s not being flowery with language either, as I got to speak with Jim Carrey during the press day for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which will hit the 2022 movie release schedule this weekend. ![]()
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