Jim Carrey On Retiring From Acting: “You Can’t Be Definite About These Things”

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Jim Carrey is clearing up his comments about retiring from acting after he claimed he was stepping away from the limelight following Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Carrey reprises his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 only two years after he said he was retiring. “You can’t be definite about these things.

I said I’d like to retire but I think I was talking more about power resting,” Carrey told ComicBook. “Because as soon as a good idea comes your way, or a group of people you really enjoy working with, things tend to change.” In 2022, when the Bruce Almighty star was promoting the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog, he said he was retiring from acting. “I’m being fairly serious,” he said in an interview to Access Hollywood at the time. “It depends.

If the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink, that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road.