Jim Carrey recently joined Vulture for an oral history to mark the 25th anniversary of “ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ,” Ron Howard’s 2000 adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s 1957 children’s book. The movie was a giant box office hit, earning $346 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2000 domestically, but it was also a tortuous experience for Carrey given the grueling transformation process. Carrey has been honest in previous interviews about how “excruciating” it was to play the Grinch under heavy makeup and prosthetics, but he revealed wild new details to Vulture about the process.

Rick Baker, the legendary make-up effects artist who won an Oscar for his work on “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” told the publication that the studio originally offered to just h

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