TRIVIA: The prosthetic make-up Jim Carrey wore took 3
hours to apply. Carrey felt so horribly confined and uncomfortable in the latex
skin he needed counseling from a Navy SEAL who taught him torture-resistance
techniques.
The Whoville set was built mostly
on the backlot of Universal Studios behind the still-standing Bates Motel.
During a break in filming Jim Carrey
surprised and scared tourists on the Universal Backlot Tour by running out of
the hotel wearing a dress and brandishing a knife. Nobody recognized him, and
the tour guide at Universal Studios will tell you the story when you pass by
the hotel on the Backlot Tour.
One morning, director Ron Howard came in at 3:30
to put on the Grinch suit with full make-up and directed the entire day with
the suit on.
No movie has featured so many
characters in heavy makeup since The Wizard of
Oz (1939).
Jim Carrey's yellow
contact lenses proved to be so uncomfortable that he was unable to wear them at
times during filming. This required that some shots of his eyes be colored in
post-production.
The scene where The Grinch is
directing his dog, Max, before stealing Christmas, is Jim Carrey doing a parody
of director Ron Howard.
Suss Cousins, an L.A. based sweater
designer (whose first name is pronounced just like Dr. Seuss), along with two
other knitters, produced 250 pieces of original knitwear for this movie
(including 8 identical red-striped sweaters for Jim Carrey) in four
months. That works out to 83.3 sweaters a person in just 120 days which is
quite amazing as all were hand-knit.
The photo of The Grinch in the
Whoville newspaper has The Grinch in the same pose as an infamous alleged photo
taken of the "Yeti" or "Sasquatch."
For a while, Tim Burton was considering
to direct, but could not due to a conflict with another movie.
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