Jim Carrey was fully present, and according to him, not at all present, at New York Fashion Week over the weekend. And in submitting to the network's request for an interview, the legendary comedian managed to perplex E! News anchor Catt Sadler, along with those watching the Harper's Bazaar 'Icons' party red carpet. Carrey approached Sadler in a midnight blue tuxedo, and when asked a little about his own fashion choice, he went off on a tangent that enveloped the entire interview in metaphysics.
"I didn't get dressed up. There is no me. There is just things happening and there are clusters of tetrahedrons moving together," Carey told Sadler. She was left with a puzzled look on her face, and attempted to ground her questioning in hopes that she could get Carrey to get on the same page, but he was somewhere else altogether with his responses. He'd respond to her inquiry into who he might perceive to be an icon by stating that he doesn't believe in personalities, much less icons. Then when Sadler segued into the more serious matters of the globe, Carrey asserted that the world of which she spoke is "not our world" and that "we don't matter."
There was a spectrum of theories on what might have motivated the 55-year-old Hollywood star to channel his inner Andy Kaufman, namely, the fact that as the man whose long been compared to Kaufman, and fittingly played him in the 1999 film Man on the Moon, Carrey was fresh from a trip to Italy for the Venice Film Festival, where he screened the behind the scenes documentary on the making of the movie: Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond. Another contributor to Carrey's strange behavior might be his having to go into character and channel legendary psychedelic astronaut Terence McKenna, whom he's been tapped to play in an upcoming film.
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