{"id":123496,"date":"2022-04-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129712"},"modified":"2022-04-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T02:00:00","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-2-star-jim-carrey-says-hes-fairly-serious-about-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-star-jim-carrey-says-hes-fairly-serious-about-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Star Jim Carrey Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Fairly Serious&#8221; About Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a6029848f99d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a6029848f99d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sonic The Hedgehog 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a6029848f99d\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a6029848f99d\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" alt=\"Sonic The Hedgehog 2\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Paramount Pictures, SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Movie star Jim Carrey might be a joker, but apparently, he&#8217;s &#8220;fairly serious&#8221; about calling time on his career.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with Access Hollywood, the <em>Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em> actor who plays Dr. Robotnik mentioned how he felt he had &#8220;done enough&#8221; and that any future projects would depend on the script.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s exactly what he had to say, courtesy of Variety:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019m retiring. Yeah, probably. I\u2019m being fairly serious&#8230;It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that\u2019s written in gold ink that says to me that it\u2019s going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I\u2019m taking a break.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI really like my quiet life and I really like putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like \u2014 and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists \u2014 I have enough. I\u2019ve done enough. I am enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And you can see the full exchange in the video below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"6-uk66ko1Nw\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Paramount Pictures has already confirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/sega-announces-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-live-action-knuckles-series\">third Sonic the Hedgehog movie<\/a> &#8211; leaving many fans questioning Carrey&#8217;s future involvement.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, he&#8217;s already signed for three Sonic movies, and his statement in this latest interview means he&#8217;ll no longer be taking on new movie contracts.<\/p>\n<p><em>If we hear any updates, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Paramount Pictures, SEGA Movie star Jim Carrey might be a joker, but apparently, he&#8217;s &#8220;fairly serious&#8221; about calling time on his career. During a recent interview with Access Hollywood, the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 actor who plays Dr. Robotnik mentioned how he felt he had &#8220;done enough&#8221; and that any future projects would depend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}