Jim Carrey may once have been comedy box office gold, but this time the joke’s on his own movie!
The fierce gun control advocate has officially pulled his support from the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, decrying it as too violent! He tweeted:
I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
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.
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
Executive producer and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar responded with shock on his own site. He wrote:
“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.”
We have to agree with Mark here. There’s no way Jim didn’t know what he was getting into with a sequel!
And we understand that Jim is shocked every time there is another shooting. So are we!
But does he really think that movies are to blame? Isn’t it that kind of taking the onus off of the gun lobbies thing he usually fights against?
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