From Torture to Triumph: How Jim Carrey's 'Grinch' Nightmare Revolutionized Hollywood's Approach to Actor Wellness

From Torture to Triumph: How Jim Carrey’s ‘Grinch’ Nightmare Revolutionized Hollywood’s Approach to Actor Wellness

While most retellings of Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas saga fixate on the actor’s near-collapse under prosthetic pressure, a deeper look reveals an unlikely silver lining: this 2000 production unwittingly became a catalyst for Hollywood’s evolving conversation on mental health, endurance training, and technological innovation in filmmaking. Rather than just a tale of…