Jim Carrey decided to denounce the violence of Kick-Ass 2, a little more than a month before the film is supposed to come out. Carrey acts as if he didn’t read the script, didn’t see the first film, and didn’t know the comic existed. He claims to have enjoyed the first movie and was attracted to the role of Colonel Stars and Stripes because he doesn’t use a gun, being a born-again Christian. Looks like he’s had a change of mind.
Jim Carrey ✔ @JimCarreyI did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e
I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.
Kick-Ass 2 creator, Mark Millar, decided to publicly respond to Carrey’s tweets.
As you may know, Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but I’m baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much. My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you’re going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon. Like Jim, I’m horrified by real-life violence (even though I’m Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn’t a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production! This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence, whether it’s the ramifications for friends and family or, as we saw in the first movie, Kick-Ass spending six months in hospital after his first street altercation. Ironically, Jim’s character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place.
Millar makes very good points and it’s shocking that Carrey decided NOW, to come out about how he doesn’t condone the violence in the film. It just shows how classless the actor has become. He’s still going to cash that paycheck. I just wish that if you were going to not condone violence in the media, you wouldn’t get involved in a project called KICK-ASS 2.
~Chaz
