Jim Carrey On Retiring From Acting: “You Can’t Be Definite About These Things”

Jim Carrey is clearing up his comments about retiring from acting after he claimed he was stepping away from the limelight following Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Carrey reprises his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 only two years after he said he was retiring.

“You can’t be definite about these things. I said I’d like to retire but I think I was talking more about power resting,” Carrey told ComicBook. “Because as soon as a good idea comes your way, or a group of people you really enjoy working with, things tend to change.”

In 2022, when the Bruce Almighty star was promoting the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog, he said he was retiring from acting.

“I’m being fairly serious,” he said in an interview to Access Hollywood at the time. “It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink, that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road. But I’m taking a break.”

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When AP asked during the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 London premiere on December 10 about what he said in 2022, Carrey said, “That might have been hyperbole.”

Carrey also told ComicBook that he would be open to reprising his role from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and also welcomes the idea of making a sequel to The Mask.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 opens in U.S. theaters on December 20. The third installment of the action-adventure film has Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles facing a mysterious adversary known as Shadow the Hedgehog and are forced to form an unlikely alliance with villain Dr. Robotnik.

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The voice cast includes Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Tails, Idris Elba as Knuckles, and Keanu Reeves as Shadow. Live-action actors include Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Krysten Ritter, Natasha Rothwell, Lee Majdoub, Tom Butler, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore and Alyla Browne.