Jim Carrey takes on his most powerful role yet. Powerful in the literal sense that is. In Bruce Almighty, he obtains all the powers of God. Through the expected Jim Carrey craziness, Bruce actually learns a lesson about man's responsibilities towards the rest of the world, and Carrey appreciated the chance to mix a message with broad comedy."I've always been big about faith," Carrey said. "I've always had a major thing about faith. Everything in my life has happened for a reason, a good reason. Generally when I'm on the beam, man, it's like the blessings just come one after another, like rain. It's unbelievable. When I'm in the right place."
Carrey has been a big fan of the traditional portrayals of God in movies, but also enjoyed the chance to show him as a regular man, both in Bruce and as the Morgan Freeman apparition of the almighty. "I loved all those movies by the way. Loved those movies! 'The Ten Commandments', 'The King of Kings' and all that stuff. Great. I know myself, we've always tried to humanize him, in some way. He's probably just a shaft of light in a doorway, or something like that. How's that for poetry? But we've always tried to personalize him, so to me I think I wanted God in this thing to be the guy whose absolutely dignified and has this austere quality and this kind of no-nonsense-ness to Him, but at the same time has a sense of humor. Because God made our sense of humor. And that's what we don't get a lot of, you know, is God kind of messing with your head. And I loved that Morgan was able to totally come out of that thing that he does so well and mess with my character and be silly."
Carrey also credits his other costars in the movie for making the film complete. First, Jennifer Aniston as his love interest. "She's a very cool person. She deserves everything she's got. You look at all those magazines and stuff, you see her in and you just go, 'Gosh, it's amazing.' Before you know her you go, 'Why are people so interested in this person? They just never seem to get enough of this person,' and then you meet her and you go, 'There's a reason. This is a very cool centered person.' And a lot of times that you meet some people like that you're disappointed at the reality of them. The idea is always better or they're playing an idea. And she's just being herself."
Steve Carell plays a rival newscaster who become the victim of one of Bruce's godly pranks. "Steve Carell is hilarious and so good in the film, in every moment of the film and I love funny people. So put me with somebody funny and I'll have a great time. I don't care who gets the laugh, and I don't care who gives me the joke. If the gaffer gives us a joke, it's great. It's fantastic. It just makes it funny and that's all I want. I want the people to leave the theatre having had a great old time, whether I got the laugh or someone else did. But he's so funny. I don't laugh a lot either at my own stuff and stuff like that, but that scene made me laugh."
Bruce Almighty opens Friday.
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