Why Jim Carrey needed CIA torture training to play The Grinch - and what got him through

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Jim Carrey was in makeup for so long during filming for The Grinch that a CIA operative had teach him how to endure torture.

While the 2000 film is a firm Christmas favourite in households across the world, it was a rather gruelling feat for the now 59-year-old actor, who was in makeup for upwards of 800 hours in total. "The makeup was like being buried alive every day," he told chat show host Graham Norton. "The first day was eight and a half hours - I went back to my trailer and put my leg through the wall. "I told Ron Howard I couldn't do the movie and then Brian Grazer came in and being the 'Fix It' man, came up with a brilliant idea which was to hire a gentleman who is trained to to teach CIA operatives how to endure torture. "'He came.