Jim Carrey Won’t Support KICK-ASS 2

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Kick-Ass 2 hits theaters in about a month and a half, but you won’t see its biggest star, Jim Carrey, out promoting the film. Carrey, who took to the web earlier this year with a rather serious parody of Charlton Heston’s “Cold Dead Hands” comment, has disavowed the film because of the level of gun violence in the movie. Here are his tweets:

I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013

I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013

You gotta hand it to Carrey. He’s consistent.

I don’t imagine this is a “violence in art causes violence in real life” type of thing, though. Carrey’s smarter than that. Instead, this amount of gun violence in a movie (and god knows Kick-Ass 2 will be super violent) is simply insensitive to the thousands of people who die from gun violence every year, at least in Carrey’s eyes.

Me? I grew up with guns.  And even though I’m pinko commie whatever, I’ve never had a problem with them. I don’t have a problem with violence in the media either. The most offensive moment of cinematic violence that I’ve even experienced was a scene in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, where there’s ZERO blood and ZERO gore in a battle scene as big as anything you’d see in a war epic. Violence that doesn’t look like violence is really sick.

But Carrey, maybe because he had no choice in the face of crazy conservative talking heads, has backed away from the film anyway so that his apparent hypocrisy doesn’t become a thing to loons on the right. Now if it does become a thing, at least it’ll be a thing on his terms.