‘I don’t care’ about Morris reaction says Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey doesn’t care about the negative reactions his new movie I Love You Phillip Morris may get.

In an interview with Metro Carrey admitted: “I do like to push the envelope here and there”.

He added: “I don’t really care about the reaction, if there’s a negative reaction… I care about doing a story about amazing, fascinating people. It’s a true story about love, and someone’s relentlessness to find it and keep it”.

In the film Carrey plays a married man who comes out as gay but is sent to prison after trying to maintain his extravagant new lifestyle with a series of cons. 

Whilst inside he falls in love with fellow convict Phillip who is played by Ewan McGregor.

He continued: “I went to them, ‘Well, why else do we live? Except to do something that people haven’t seen before in a film and to push the boundary a little bit? So when it snaps back it doesn’t snap back quite so far’.”

His character also controversially pretends he has Aids which meant Carrey having to lose weight:

“In the week of shooting, I was just having these little tomato drinks and supplements so I could stay alive. In the last two days before the main shots where I looked very skinny, I actually just stopped eating.

“I was completely exhausted and raw during that part of it. I was wandering around like an old man”

I Love You Phillip Morris is released in cinemas on Wednesday.