Jim Carrey Gets Weird, Talks Parallels with Andy Kaufman, Making 'Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond' | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Star Jim Carrey, director Chris Smith, and producer Danny Gabai discuss their new film 'Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond' at TIFF 2017.

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00:00You guys are our first group today. Good morning.

00:02First group?

00:03Of the day.

00:04Oh, yeah? How many groups are you going to have?

00:06A lot. A lot.

00:07Really?

00:08There's a lot of movies here.

00:09Clooney and his goons coming in here.

00:11Well, tell them you said that if they are.

00:20We like to kick it off with the elevator pitch, the 15-second, this is what my movie's about.

00:25Speaking of the elevator, the elevator at the Windsor Arms has a faux library in it.

00:32Go in the elevator.

00:33With removable books?

00:34No, you can't remove the books.

00:36It's just a fake library face with a lock on it, and there's like a bar in front of it,

00:42so you couldn't open it if you wanted to, and there's no books in it.

00:45Are the fake titles at least provocative?

00:48Yeah, Tale of Two Cities, stuff like that.

00:51Stuff you want to read the entire thing on the way to the lobby.

00:55Yeah, the movie is basically, you know, when they were making Man on the Moon,

00:59which is a portrait of Andy Kaufman, there was a crew that documented the entire experience

01:05of the making of the movie, and so our movie is a sort of exploration of that event,

01:11everything that happened, and sort of a look back at how that shaped events that went forward,

01:17and also a look back on Jim's career and Andy's career.

01:19Kind of an interesting perspective on what came from losing yourself in a character,

01:28and then realizing that you're a, you know, a character has been playing you your whole life.

01:33I mean, the first part was really a lot of...

01:35That's enough.

01:36Yeah, there you go.

01:38Okay.

01:39I think, you know, it was just due diligence, diligence, not due diligence, diligence.

01:44Any kind of diligence is good.

01:45Spike was very diligent, you were very diligent.

01:47I was John Diligent.

01:48He was Don Diligent, walking through walls, taking names.

01:52A lot of people think that, you know, I'm kind of going through something,

01:56but it's been my whole life, you know, and they go like,

02:02well, it's a reaction to depression.

02:04He's dealt with depression his whole life, and I have...

02:07There's no hint of depression in my life whatsoever.

02:10It is... depression only happens when you don't accept what is,

02:15and when you're playing a character, you know, in life.

02:20So when I tried to go back and play Jim Carrey, I got depressed.

02:24And now I don't try to do that anymore.

02:27I think there's so much in there about Jim and Andy that, you know, is so fascinating

02:33and was such a great way to spend, you know, a year of your life just sort of living in that world.

02:38Right.

02:39But ultimately, I would hope that it, you know, that it has a connection to the audience.

02:43You know, what am I is the central question.

02:45Right.

02:46You know, why am I here?

02:47What am I, you know?

02:48And this movie, it really has an odd way of opening up that door to at least the questioning of that.

02:55You know, an opportunity to think beyond sort of the project that was started.

02:58Excuse me for a second.

03:00I just want to see this a different way.

03:08You feel like you're being watched.

03:09I want to be a boyer on this one.

03:10I don't know.

03:11Anything, I think.

03:12Liar!

03:13Yeah, it's nothing but lies.

03:15It's all just a sham.

Jim Carrey Gets Weird, Talks Parallels with Andy Kaufman, Making 'Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond' | TIFF 2017

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