Up through until “Dumb and Dumber To” in 2014, actor Jim Carrey was a pretty consistent figure on the big screen with several dozen films under his belt.
Then, with the exception of a pair of dark indie films in 2016 (“The Bad Batch” and “Dark Crimes”), Carrey essentially stepped away from movies with some SNL appearances and the two-season long series “Kidding” his only credits.
That changed when Carrey returned in 2020 with the “Sonic the Hedgehog” film in which he plays the villain Dr. Ivo Robotnik, a role he’s reprised for the sequel this month.
Speaking with Access Hollywood to promote the film though, Carrey says he’s retiring from acting and said he was “fairly serious” about that. The actor has been leading a quiet life in recent years and from the sounds of it he’s enjoying it very much:
“Well, I’m retiring. Yeah, probably. I’m being fairly serious. 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.
I really like my quiet life and I really like putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like, and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists – I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough.”
The comments come as Paramount has teased plans to build out a Sonic cinematic universe according to producer Toby Aschner (via VGC) recently with a third film and Knuckles-centered live-action TV series on the way.
“Sonic the Hedgehog 2” began its international rollout yesterday and will hit the U.S. next Friday.
