Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for the original Dumb and Dumber, while his co-star Jeff Daniels — who shared top billing! — made just $50,000. Carrey wasn’t a big star when Dumb and Dumber went into production in 1994 and the comedy’s total budget was just $16 million — so how did he walk away with so much? “They offered him $350,000 to do the movie and he passed,” explains Peter Farrelly.
From what I read Carey himself was the one who wanted that. He told the producers if it was two comedians they’d spend the entire time trying to one up each other
Jim Carrey is the only reason that movie works at all, and the only reason people went to see it.
Apparently, according to Carrey himself, they needed a full-range actor and not a comedian to be his counterpart, so…
From what I read Carey himself was the one who wanted that. He told the producers if it was two comedians they’d spend the entire time trying to one up each other
Yeah, no one would have gone to see Jeff Daniels alone, and this was during Jim Carrey’s peak.