Jim Carrey says there’s one film he really regrets making

A lot of iconic roles have been played by Jim Carrey over the years, some questionable, some weird.

Through his career, Carrey has done it all; from the rubber-faced roles in The Mask and Ace Ventura to the timeless dramas like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to the Sonic the Hedgehog movies with his role as Dr Robotnik. Despite all these years, the actor says Captain Stars & Stripes from Kick-Ass 2 is the only role he regrets playing.

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After flying under the radar upon release, the 2013 sequel film based on the graphic novel was nevertheless a decent film, arguably due to Carrey’s performance as a baseball bat-wielding vigilante, which is every bit as solid as you’d expect from a performer of his caliber.

A gunman shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, shortly before the film was released, making it one of the most deadly mass shootings in American history. Carrey, who became a strong gun control advocate following the tragedy and has sworn off excessive violence in his films ever since, appeared to be particularly affected by the tragedy’s scale and senselessness.

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In June 2013, he wrote on Twitter, “I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook, and now I cannot support such violence.” It is not my intention to apologize to those involved with the film. I am not ashamed of it, but recent events have caused me to change my mind.”

Mark Millar, the author of the graphic novel on which Kick-Ass 2 was based, criticized Carrey for his words At the time, Millar wrote in a blog that Carrey knew exactly what he was in for: “I’m baffled by this sudden announcement since nothing in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay 18 months ago.”

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“Yes, there is a lot of blood in Kick-Ass 2, but it really has to live up to its name. A sequel to the picture that brought us Hit Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and for someone who enjoyed the first movie so much, this should have not surprised him… Despite being Scottish, I’m horrified by real-life violence, but Kick-Ass 2 isn’t a documentary. No actors were harmed.