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Article: Spirited stuff; The irrepressible Jim Carrey is known for his high-energy on-screen persona. So how, asks Rob Driscoll, did he react to taking the back seat behind the very latest in computer animation technology?(Features)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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WHEN Jim Carrey caught the first glimpse of his screen image as grumpy old miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney's new animated version of A Christmas Carol, he was surprised to see someone really quite familiar staring back at him.
"It is so spooky to me," admits the Hollywood superstar, who underwent a rigorous process of "performance capture" with computerised cameras alongside co-stars Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Gary Oldmans , while bringing Dickens' immortal classic to life in its newest and most technologically-advanced version yet. "I just had a feeling that if ...