#JimCarrey offered to return his $20 million "Grinch" salary and was going to quit the movie amid "panic attacks" over the makeup. Then “a guy who trained the military on enduring torture" was hired to help him.⁠ ⁠ “Richard Marcinko was a gentleman that trained CIA officers and special-ops people how to endure torture,” Carrey told Vulture “He gave me a litany of things that I could do when I began to spiral. Like punch myself in the leg as hard as I can. Have a friend that I trust and punch him in the arm. Eat everything in sight. Changing patterns in the room. If there’s a TV on when you start to spiral, turn it off and turn the radio on. Smoke cigarettes as much as possible. There are pictures of me as the Grinch sitting in a director’s chair with a long cigarette holder. I had to have the holder, because the yak hair would catch on fire if it got too close. Later on I found out that the gentleman that trained me to endure the Grinch also founded SEAL Team Six.”⁠ ⁠ Read more at the ...