Taylor Momsen Just Praised Jim Carrey For Looking Out For Her As A Child Star In “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”

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“I ever felt truly harmless with Jim, I liked being astir him."

Taylor Momsen was conscionable 6 years aged erstwhile she landed her breakout movie relation arsenic Cindy-Lou Who successful the 2000 Christmas movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas, which besides starred Jim Carrey arsenic the titular Grinch.

During filming successful September 1999, Jim was 37 years aged and an incredibly established Hollywood actor, having starred successful movies similar Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, and The Truman Show by that point.

Jim was renowned for his awesome and dedicated quality acting and comedic prowess erstwhile small Taylor became his movie co-lead, and she has present revealed that, contempt his presumption arsenic a bona fide movie prima astatine the time, helium was incredibly protective of her.

Speaking to Vulture for their caller oral past of the film, Taylor — present 32 — opened up astir ever feeling “safe” astir Jim, detailing 1 circumstantial infinitesimal erstwhile helium stopped accumulation successful the mediate of filming aft a stunt astir harmed her.

“I retrieve erstwhile we were shooting the country coming down the upland connected the sled. It was this existent sled that was up connected a elephantine outpouring that was being controlled and moving from broadside to side, precise aggressively,” Taylor explained.

“Jim is leaning implicit and being extravagant Jim. There was a infinitesimal wherever I astir fell retired of the sled, and helium freaked out,” she went on. “He called chopped and started checking successful connected me. I was having a large time. I was laughing; I wasn’t reasoning astir the information that I conscionable astir fell precise precocious disconnected the ground.”

“I ever felt truly harmless with Jim,” Taylor added. “I liked being astir him. At specified a young age, to ticker an creator who is that superior astatine what they’re doing adjacent portion playing this precise over-the-top character, it was wide to maine however overmuch helium was putting into it and however overmuch of an creator helium was.”

Meanwhile, Jim told Vulture that helium instantly realized that Taylor was “smart beyond her years” and “an incredibly precocious child” erstwhile they met earlier filming, recalling: “Her drama timing was impeccable. A full pro. I don’t deliberation she ever went up connected a enactment oregon missed a cue oregon thing similar that.”

Taylor antecedently opened up astir however beauteous Jim was during a 2023 quality connected the Podcrushed podcast, wherever she said: “He was, archetypal of all, truthful nice. That's what I remember. He was very, precise nice. Very methodical. I didn't rather recognize what an creator was astatine that age, but if I had immoderate inkling of what it was, it was that guy. Just the mode helium carried himself and the mode helium full-on went into that quality was aggravated and insane."

And during the aforesaid interview, she besides recalled being “relentlessly” bullied astatine school for her relation successful the film. For what it’s worth, Cindy-Lou is an integral portion of the storyline, and is champion remembered for her attention-grabbing braided hairstyle, arsenic good arsenic her opus "Where Are You Christmas?"

"I moved astir a batch erstwhile I was young, truthful I was ne'er successful 1 schoolhouse for excessively long,” she began. “Making friends and that benignant of happening was ever a spot of a situation for me. I was precise introverted and benignant of shy. I would spell to schoolhouse for a mates of months and past permission to spell enactment and travel back.”

"The Grinch changed my beingness successful a multitude of ways, 1 of them being I was made amusive of relentlessly," Taylor explained. "Every clip I would commencement astatine a caller schoolhouse oregon spell determination else, I don't adjacent deliberation the kids knew my name. I was conscionable Grinch girl."

"Not adjacent my quality name, conscionable Grinch girl... I got utilized to it, but it was alienating,” she added.

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