Are you there, God? It’s him, Bruce. 2003’s Bruce Almighty featured an all-star solid — together with Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston — and memorable scenes that also go away viewers roaring with laughter at present.
After information anchor Bruce Nolan (Carrey) will get handed over for a promotion at work — a job that notably goes to Evan Baxter (Carell) — he’s satisfied God (Freeman) has it out for him. In response, God provides Bruce all of his powers, resulting in the sort of laugh-out-loud hijinks solely a solid of this caliber might pull off.
When talking about working with Aniston — who portrayed Bruce’s girlfriend, Grace Connelly — Carrey gushed over his love for the Pals alum.
“She’s super. We work properly off one another as a result of Jennifer is a very completely different particular person than me,” the Liar, Liar actor instructed BlackFilm.com in 2003. “I’m an individual who simply throws myself on the market and does wild stuff and he or she’s like the middle of the wheel. She’s the kind of particular person that may sit there and permit issues to return to her. I search them out and destroy them. It’s a beautiful sort of combine.”
One of many comedy’s most-talked-about scenes is the bit the place Bruce — with the powers of God — makes an attempt to sabotage Evan’s profession by having him converse nothing however gibberish whereas on digicam. The movie’s blooper reel reveals Catherine Bell (who portrayed Evan’s co-anchor) barely in a position to get via a take with out cracking up. The scene shot Carell to superstardom.
The Workplace alum later revealed that there was a scene so intense it didn’t even make the ultimate reduce.
“The half they reduce out is when Jim Carrey makes my nostril begin to bleed profusely, which they thought [was] too imply of him to do as a personality … after which my head burst into flames,” Carell revealed on The Graham Norton Present in 2020, revealing they ran a “actual dwell” fuel line down his again and a coil on his head for the impact. Flames got here capturing out.
“That was essentially the most terrifying factor ever since you might hear them venting the fuel line earlier than it occurred. I might see the crew in entrance of me, all of them lit up as a result of the flame was so vivid,” the Stunning Boy actor recalled, including that for the reason that movie was his large break, he wasn’t going to cease them.
“(It was) my first film,” he shared. “What was I gonna say, ‘I’m not gonna do it’? ‘In fact! Certain! Gentle me on hearth! Sounds terrific!’”
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