Jeff Daniels shuts down ‘Dumb and Dumber 3’ rumors with Jim Carrey: ‘I have no idea where he is’
02.04.2024 - 19:29
/ nypost.com
“Dumb and Dumber” movie on the horizon – but, Jeff Daniels told The Post, it’s not in the works. “I’ve heard nothing,” Daniels, 69, said while promoting his Prime Video show “American Rust: Broken Justice,” now in its second season, in which he stars as a small town cop. Regarding the occasional unverified report that “Dumb and Dumber 3” is in the works, Daniels quipped, “You’ve got to stay off the internet.”“I talk to Jim [Carrey] occasionally.
We’re still great friends,” he added. “I have no idea where he is. None of this happens if Jim doesn’t want it to happen.”Daniels starred opposite Carrey, 62, in the 1994 buddy comedy following Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels), two affable dim-witted pals from Rhode Island who take a road trip to Aspen, Colorado, to return a briefcase to its owner.
Unbeknownst to them, the briefcase was left as a ransom, leading them into mayhem. Although Daniels is better known as a dramatic actor, he explained during a 2017 interview with the Off Camera Show, “Jim had said, ‘I want an actor in that, I don’t want a comedian. A comedian will just try to top me.
An actor will listen and react, and also make me listen and react.’ So, Jim got me that job, and kept me that job. The studio wanted a comedian, and the Farrellys and Jim wanted me.”The movie was followed by 2003’s “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd,” but it was a prequel starring Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen. Daniels and Carrey weren’t in it.