However, some older moviegoers were less keen. And that includes Tommy Lee Jones, who played the Riddler’s glorified sidekick and fellow fiend, Two-Face. Jones’ cool disdain toward Carrey has become infamous over the years, and it’s something Carrey still remembers well. Hence he talked a little about it again while chatting with Norm MacDonald this week. “I went over and said, ‘Hey, Tommy, how you doing?’ And the blood just drained from his face like he had been thinking about me 24 hours a day. … It was before the biggest scene we have together in the movie. The blood just drained from his face. He started shaking and he got up and … he must have been in mid-kill-me fantasy or something. He went to hug me and said, ‘I hate you. I really don’t like you.’ I said, ‘Gee man, what’s the problem?’ I pulled up a chair, which probably wasn’t smart. And he said, ‘I cannot sanction your buffoonery.’” At the time, it was probably hard to imagine anyone feeling that about Carrey, however times change and it seems Carrey understands a bit more about why anyone during an earlier time would say that to the man who wore a sport coat with electric, neon lights in the shape of question marks lighting up the soundstage.
