Jim Carrey got here out of retirement for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as a result of he ‘wanted the cash’

Jim Carrey says that he got here out of retirement for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as a result of he wanted the cash.

Carrey was talking on the purple carpet earlier than the Sonic premiere in London on Tuesday, and was requested why he had returned to the franchise after apparently quitting appearing two years in the past. He replied: “I got here again to this universe as a result of, to start with, I get to play a genius, which is a little bit of a stretch. And, you already know, it’s simply … I purchased a number of stuff and I want the cash, frankly.”

Carrey has performed the sequence’ chief villain Dr Robotnik in all three Sonic movies, with the earlier instalments having been launched in 2020 and 2022. Nonetheless in an interview with Entry Hollywood in 2022 Carrey mentioned he had “completed sufficient” appearing and was “pretty critical” about retiring. “I actually like my quiet life and I actually like placing paint on canvas and I actually love my non secular life and I really feel like … I’ve sufficient.”

Carrey explored his love of portray and sculpture within the 2017 documentary I Wanted Coloration however his efforts weren’t at all times totally appreciated, with the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones describing his paintings as “astonishingly unhealthy” and “a joke”.

Within the Entry Hollywood interview Carrey steered that he may rethink “if the angels deliver some kind of script that’s written in gold ink that claims to me that it’s going to be actually essential for folks to see”. On being requested on Tuesday if Sonic 3 was such a script, Carrey mentioned, jokingly, “That may have been hyperbole.”