Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen's Grinch Reunion Will Develop Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes
Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen, who costarred in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, reunited at the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Popularity Induction Ceremony Nov. 8, 25 years after filming the commute traditional.
Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen are kicking off the commute season with a bang.
The pair—who performed The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, respectively, within the 2000 family movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas—reunited for the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Popularity Induction Ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles Nov. 8, where they helped induct rock band Soundgarden into the prestigious museum.
After the match, Jim, who wore a dim pinstripe trench coat and T-shirt, posed for photos within the press room with Taylor, who became once dressed in an outsized leather jacket and dim lace minidress. And the sweet reunion became once reasonably a really prolonged time coming.
“We haven’t considered every other since The Grinch,” Jim, 63, knowledgeable photographers in a video posted on TikTok, with Taylor, 32, alongside side, “25 years!”
Whereas it’s been a quarter-century for the reason that commute traditional—constant with the 1957 kids’s book by Dr. Seuss—became once released in theatres, the Slightly Reckless frontwoman vividly recalled her bond with the comedian on location.
“He became once very holding of me. He became once persistently very kind,” Taylor knowledgeable Of us in an interview printed Nov. 9. “Your total trip of filming Grinch and attending to know him so smartly, even within the total makeup, became once factual improbable.”
And the Gossip Girl alum—whose remaining performing credit became once on the CW drama—realized a lot about performing by watching Jim in his part.
“As a teen watching an artist at work and taking their craft so severely,” she continued, “that left a really highly effective, lasting affect on me as an adult now.”
Taylor added, “I'm furious with a arrangement to show him that as a grownup.”
The singer no longer too prolonged within the past mirrored on making the movie at factual 7 years ancient, noting that despite being “teased relentlessly” at college over the position, she handiest has fond recollections of the trip.
“Having a perceive abet on it, I crawl, ‘No, all of this stuff that took set and all of these experiences of constructing this movie became once (sic) improbable,’” she said on the Nov. 5 episode of the Name Her Daddy podcast. “So why am I shunning this? I am Cindy Lou Who. I am that lady. I'm unruffled that lady.”
Retain learning for added on the making of How the Grinch Stole Christmas…
They Save a Grinch on the Moon
Jim Carrey infamously went plump approach to play expressionless comedian Andy Kaufman within the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon.
Which, since filming on How the Grinch Stole Christmas bought underway that very same year, resulted in some overlap for the massive title of every motion photos.
“Jim Carrey didn't exist at that time,” the actor knowledgeable an viewers at the 2017 Venice Film Competition, which hosted the premiere of the documentary Jim & Andy: The Huge Past – The Memoir of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman That comprises a Very Particular, Contractually Obligated Uncover of Tony Clifton. “Andy in fact affected the Grinch as smartly.”
Namely, Carrey said he spent two hours on the phone with Howard one night going over notes, but in character as Andy.
“It became once psychotic now and again,” he admitted.
I Will Try to Entertain You as Simplest I Can
Carrey even met with Theodore Geisel's—aka How the Grinch Stole Christmas creator Dr. Seuss'—widow Audrey Geisel as Kaufman, constant with director Ron Howard.
Audrey being the gatekeeper of her expressionless husband's legacy and the one to dispute yea or nay to the venture.
Nonetheless it appears to be like she liked Carrey's dedication to every characters.
“He invited Mrs. Geisel to the placement,” Howard knowledgeable Empire in 2000, “and for a while he became once talking to her like Andy Kaufman. After which he'd tumble that and turn abet to her and be the Grinch for a total minute of Grinchiness, alongside side the sizable grin, and she became once entirely enthralled. By the time I came to her with my belief, she said to me, 'I find it irresistible, and I desire Jim Carrey to play the Grinch.' Which is what I mandatory to hear this capacity that of I potentially wouldn't luxuriate in performed the movie with any individual else.”
And it became once handiest the foundation, as Carrey also voiced Horton within the 2008 absorbing hit Horton Hears a Who!
The Seussian Cinematic Universe
You shall be in a position to't show while you're in Whoville (or on it), but the total planet suits on a speck of mud, constant with Dr. Seuss' 1954 book Horton Hears a Who!
And yes, constant with Seuss canon lore, the little Whos Horton hears are from the Whoville of How the Grinch Stole Christmas popularity.
A Sweet Gesture
Taylor Momsen, who became once 7 when she performed Cindy Lou Who, would teach Carrey sweet bars from his native Canada.
And he, in turn, knowledgeable of us that she “outmoded to give him too a lot sweet,” so if he forgot his lines it became once this capacity that of he became once “all overestimated” from the sugar, the Gossip Girl actress knowledgeable E! in 2000. “That's factual a shaggy dog fable that he tells.”
In the meantime, even supposing she remembered bringing him toffees and couldn't endure in options the title of the chocolate bar he said became once his favourite, Carrey recalled being awash in his most standard confection.
“She became once attempting to get me Crunchies, which became once my favourite Canadian chocolate bar,” he knowledgeable E!, “so she became once plying me with Crunchies the total time.”
Liking the Sound Of It
Momsen said working with Oscar-a hit Huge composer James Horner on Cindy Lou's songs made her realize she mandatory to plan tune extra than something.
“I'll never put out of your mind strolling into this ultimate studio, with this immaculate console in entrance of me,” the Slightly Reckless frontwoman said on TODAY in 2020, “and inserting headphones on and singing into a microphone for the notable time, singing 'The attach Are You, Christmas?' That became once such an impactful 2nd in my lifestyles this capacity that of it made me crawl, 'I wanna plan tune for the relaxation of my lifestyles. I love being in a recording studio.'”
Performing the tune on location, Momsen said, “in fact, that became once my first tune video.”
Putrid Accident
“All of us knew we luxuriate in been piece of something in actuality special,” Carrey knowledgeable E!, recalling how at any time when he walked on location, he'd “factual crawl, 'Come on, that is insane.'”
He outlined, “I felt like I became once piece of The Wizard of Oz. I became once factual like, 'I wonder if they luxuriate in been pondering this stuff after they did that movie,’ this capacity that of I became once persistently amazed at what they came up with.”
In the meantime, Momsen did her communing with the 1939 Judy Garland traditional sooner than she came to location.
“I love any that creativeness,” she said. “I outmoded to lumber across the house dressed up as Dorothy or pretending I became once Glinda.”
The Correct That way of Makeup
Grinch-designated makeup artist Kazu Hiro's first earn became once deemed too transformative by the studio, which mandatory Carey to be extra recognizable, so he became once asked to dial it abet.
“The remainder one became once handiest to paint him green with shadow and highlight and positioned on a wig,” Hiro knowledgeable the Los Angeles Times in 2000. “In the foundation Jim mandatory the lighter makeup, as light as imaginable, so he would per chance per chance pass a lot. He made a videotape of himself making a Grinch face, and it regarded huge, but factual insist him green and giving him a wig doesn’t plan him a Grinch. He began to adore that, and he agreed that our way became once extra the factual formulation to attain it.”
So, after attempting a minimal of half of a dozen iterations of Grinchdom, decrease than per week sooner than taking pictures became once as a result of originate they went abet to Hiro's preliminary earn.
Suffering for Their Success
“A median day started at five or six within the morning,” Hiro recalled, estimating he worked on Carrey four days per week for three months. “The makeup time itself became once reasonably short, about two hours and 10 minutes. With the relief of my makeup assistant, Amy Schmiederer, I tried to work as rapid as imaginable this capacity that of we didn’t desire Jim to sit down down within the chair for a really very prolonged time.”
He continued, “There luxuriate in been three notable steps within the makeup: to apply the froth rubber pieces on his face that covered nearly the entire lot but his decrease lip and chin; to paint on the color and to positioned on the hairpieces and the wig. After every step, Jim would luxuriate in a rupture of 10 to Half-hour.”
Retaining the makeup intact for the relaxation of the day became once the right notify, Hari shared, “this capacity that of circulation and sweating will luxuriate in an ticket on how smartly the makeup stays on his face.”
Carrey “became once continuously transferring around so there became once constant contact-up on the placement,” Hari said. “Nonetheless once Jim begins a scene, he needs to luxuriate in going and attain it time and again and again. Every shot he did, he tried a minimal of thrice or extra to give you something better, and all over that time he didn’t must be touched up.”
The artist wore a instrument belt filled with offers—makeup clothier and supervisor Rick Baker estimated it weighed 100 pounds—so he would per chance per chance luxuriate in up with the massive title.
Baker and key hairstylist Gail Rowell-Ryan ended up a hit the Oscar in 2001 for Simplest Makeup and Hairstyling.
Barely Stayin' Alive
Time did no longer plan Carrey's coronary heart grow fonder for the Grinch costume.
Coming into into plump makeup on day one took eight and a half of hours, he recalled on The Graham Norton Yelp in 2014, evaluating it to “being buried alive.”
So, he continued, “I went abet to my trailer and repair my leg via the wall, and I knowledgeable Ron Howard I couldn't attain the movie. Then [producer] Brian Grazer came in and, being the repair-it man, came up with an even belief, which became once to rent a gentleman who’s educated to educate CIA operatives how to attain suffer torture.”
The suggestion, Carrey recalled, became once to “eat the entire lot you undercover agent and while you're freaking out and also you originate to spiral downward, turn the tv on, trade a sample, luxuriate in somebody come up and smack you within the pinnacle. Punch yourself within the leg or smoke—smoke as a lot as it is probably going you’ll.”
Requested how prolonged this went on for, Carrey said he became once in makeup 100 times.
“And what bought me via it?” he added. “The Bee Gees.”
No longer Correct Jive Talkin'
Carrey wasn't joking about that.
“Whereas I became once doing the makeup, he would be watching a DVD or paying consideration to tune,” Hiro knowledgeable the LA Times. “Nearly day-after-day he became once playing a CD of 'Bee Gees Are residing.'” (Presumably 1977's Right here at Final…Bee Gees…Are residing.)
“After a while I became once doing the makeup in time with the album, and I would per chance per chance show if I became once a runt bit expressionless or a runt bit snappily by the tune!” the artist said. “Then one Friday, Jim said, 'I want to take this album dwelling as we yell time,' so we took it out of the CD player and gave it to him. Nonetheless on Saturday, I became once pondering: 'Presumably he’ll put out of your mind to teach it abet, and that will mess up my rhythm with the makeup.' I went out and sold the same CD and brought it into the makeup trailer the next week.”
Which became once lawful pondering, he said, this capacity that of Carrey did put out of your mind to teach the CD abet.
Carrey later autographed Hiro's replica.
Tough From Day One
On the day Carrey recalled inserting his leg via the wall, Hiro felt the flexibility within the air.
“Every first day has some roughly notify that or no longer it is well-known to handle, but this became once in fact the notable time we tried the final earn on Jim, and we luxuriate in been no longer distinct if he would really find it irresistible or no longer,” he knowledgeable the LA Times. “I became once nervous, and Jim became once nervous, too. As it grew to turn out to be out, he didn’t like the formulation his neck became once covered with the hair, which became once piece of the wig, so we had to repair it factual on the placement, which intended we couldn’t originate the taking pictures factual away.”
And, he added, “Jim is a perfectionist, and at any time when there became once a trade, he said something.”
Flying Blind
“The largest notify with the makeup for Jim became once the contact lenses,” Hiro said. “They luxuriate in been using counterfeit snow on the placement, which became once in fact dried, smashed paper pulp, and on the placement there luxuriate in been persistently tiny particles flying around within the air. The mud in fact went between the lenses and his eyes, so he had a painful time.”
Howard said Carrey became once a guy who in actuality couldn't attach on contacts.
“Nonetheless he had to, this capacity that of he knew it became once factual for the character,” the director knowledgeable Empire. “Nonetheless there luxuriate in been days after we had an optometrist standing by the total time with a natty magnifying glass this capacity that of he persistently bought stuff in his eyes, and then we luxuriate in been knowledgeable he couldn't movie.”
Whereas Carrey's bare brown eyes in actuality luxuriate in been aching to be uncovered, an editing oversight that went viral in 2022 left one frame whereby the Grinch is finding out that Whoville is unruffled awash in Christmas spirit despite his easiest efforts—and the actor's contact-much less eyes are showing.
Bah, Humbug
“It became once a right lesson in Zen,” Carrey knowledgeable the Times of dealing with the discomfort. “Every every so recurrently it would per chance per chance be very humorous this capacity that of they’d know I became once having a notify, this capacity that of I would per chance per chance punch myself within the leg. I realized about misfortune deferment—you pinch your leg or your arm, and take the notable level of interest out of your discomfort. It became once tricky the notable couple of weeks, but I became once in a position to transcend it. It’s improbable what humans can earn outmoded to.”
You Can Snatch It With You
Carrey would rupture no time getting de-Grinched after filming wrapped for the day.
“The lens technician, the swimsuit technician and I would per chance per chance flee over to him and delivery to take away the entire lot lets on the placement,” Hari recalled to the LA Times. “All that would per chance per chance be left on him became once the Grinch face with out the hair and the dim spandex swimsuit he wore beneath the furry costume. Then he would return to his trailer for a rupture, all in which he would originate peeling the makeup pieces off himself.”
Carrey preserved pieces of the froth rubber he pulled off his face in a plastic earn with the day's call sheet and gave them to of us on location to luxuriate in as souvenirs.
It Changed into once No Picnic for Me Both, Just correct friend
At the time, Hiro said all became once smartly that ended smartly.
“About two months after the filming became once completed, Jim and I talked again,” he knowledgeable the Times. “He said he admired me, and knowledgeable me I did an infinite job and said thanks. I thanked him too, this capacity that of he went via that total thing. I mediate How the Grinch Stole Christmas became once the hardest movie I've ever worked on. It’s miles a lawful memory, but when we had to attain that again…we obtained’t attain it!”
As it grew to turn out to be out, Hiro—who's obtained two Oscars since, for 2017's Darkest Hour and 2019's Bombshell—started treatment after his trip on HTGSC.
It bought sorrowful sufficient, Hiro knowledgeable Vulture in 2018, that a producer in fact helpful he depart to present Carrey how well-known he became once to the production. (The movie's makeup department became once enormous, but among the credit Hiro is the handiest one dedicated to the Grinch.)
He didn't resolution when Carrey known as after per week, Hiro said, but Howard assured him the actor had sworn to trade his strategies.
Whereas his company impressed him to search files from for a sizable enhance, the Kyoto-born artist continued, he determined he'd search files from the studio for relief getting a green card as a substitute.
It worked, and he's since turn out to be an American citizen. (And treatment helped him realize that he became once “in actuality an introvert.”)
They're Every Grrrreat!
Frankenstein massive title Boris Karloff became once the narrator and voiced the title character within the 1966 absorbing TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and loads of assumed he also sang the iconic “You're a Point out One, Mr. Grinch.”
He did no longer. Moderately, the prolonged-uncredited vocalist became once Thurl Ravencroft, who also offered the enlighten for Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger for many years.
For the 2000 movie, sans exclamation level, Carrey did his beget vocal on the conventional tune.
A World of Impure Improvisation
Howard admitted it became once a “very unorthodox” production, for the reason that location and costume designers—who a minimal of had the framework of the kids's book to head by—luxuriate in been waiting on the writers to create the script.
Carrey's brain waited for no creator, on the other hand, and he improvised lines a lot like “6:30 p.m. Dinner with me. I will't assassinate that again.”
Aide-de-Camp
Howard has attach his character actor brother Clint Howard in 17 of his motion photos, from 1977's Huge Theft Auto to 2018's Solo: A Critical person Wars Memoir.
And that's Clint playing Mayor Augustus Could presumably well well Who sycophantic assistant Bris Who in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Moreover, it became once Clint who in fact helpful his sizable brother don the Grinch makeup for a day as a morale booster.
“He said to me, 'You know, all and sundry's getting a runt down. If there's per chance some roughly stunt it is probably going you’ll per chance pull, attach on the plan-up, let of us know that it's tricky,'” Howard knowledgeable Empire. So, in some unspecified time in the future, “I slipped into the plan-up chair at about 3:30 a.m. within the morning and donned the costume, and horrified Jim, and bought a right cheap chortle out of the crew, and I mediate of us liked that I became once exciting to suffer a minimal of in some unspecified time in the future.”
Nonetheless he did no longer suffer the contacts. One, this capacity that of it wasn't value the expense to luxuriate in a pair customized-made for in some unspecified time in the future, Howard said, but additionally, “frankly, I didn't must attach on the rattling things.”
Mayberry S.O.S.
Carrey became once “having fear assaults” and “breathing into a paper earn” as a result of the claustrophobia he felt within the swimsuit, Howard recalled, so the director became once recurrently attempting to cheer the massive title up. (Sooner than he became once in a position to present Carrey the $350 million in worldwide field office receipts.)
Shimmering the actor became once a enormous fan of Don Knotts, who performed Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Yelp, Howard—who bought his originate as a baby actor on the Fifties-abilities sitcom—had his archaic costar visit the placement.
“I desire I'd had the digicam rolling,” Howard said on In Depth With Graham Bensinger in 2023, to capture “genius impressionist” Carrey doing “a finest Don Knotts, within the Grinch costume.”
Total, Howard “understood the roughly agony [Carrey] became once going via,” he said. Nonetheless, “, no topic he had to attain he had to attain.”
The Heart of the Topic
And, er, why became once Carrey doing this again?
He cited a longtime affinity for the Grinch for what drew him to the laborious venture within the notable set.
“The fable of his trade of coronary heart has persistently been in actuality crucial to me, that any individual’s reachable,” he outlined to E! in 2000. “Most of us factual must be piece of the birthday celebration and piece of the membership, and while you give them the chance, they’re going to be.”
And he also mandatory to call sorrowful on the avarice.
“Correct perceive at the book and perceive at what Dr. Seuss’s popular intent became once,” Carrey continued. “I mediate he supposed to present of us what Christmas became once all about, to present us ourselves at Christmas time…At the coronary heart of Christmas, no topic how industrial it gets, it would per chance per chance earn you this capacity that of it way something. It’s about family and love and acceptance. It’s the thing that makes of us realize we're all piece of a family.”
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