Carrey began to question the trappings, and even the point, of movie stardom, and, as documented in the riveting documentary Jim & Andy, went through a total career (and mental) breakdown while filming Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon. But he stuck with it - famously writing himself in 1985 a postdated $10 million check ten years in the future for “acting services rendered” - and after landing on In Living Color, he bagged a weird little script he didn’t even like called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, decided to rewrite the whole thing himself, and almost instantly became the biggest movie star in the world.īut perhaps what’s most interesting was what happened next. But then he moved to Hollywood, and despite some bit roles ( Earth Girls Are Easy, one of Nicolas Cage’s buddies in Peggy Sue Got Married, an Axl Rose lip-syncing rock star in The Dead Pool), it never really came together for him. He dropped out of high school to work both as a janitor - his family was briefly homeless and relying on his salary - and as a stand-up comedian he was opening for Rodney Dangerfield and touring his home country of Canada before he was old enough to vote. Jim Carrey was both a phenom and a late-career bloomer. Photo: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios
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