Jim Carrey Reveals He Met Pantera the Identical Day He Heard Their Music for the First Time

When an inventory of movie star metalheads comes up, actor Jim Carrey‘s title is normally someplace in that checklist. Many followers will recall the Cannibal Corpse characteristic in his ’90s movie Ace Ventura and Carrey’s newest film, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, has some metallic moments as properly. A type of moments queued up a recollection from the actor of the primary time he heard Pantera, which truly got here shortly earlier than assembly the band for the primary time.

Whereas doing an interview with Washington D.C. Fox 5’s Kevin McCarthy (as seen beneath), Carrey and the interviewer had been sharing music pleasantries when McCarthy introduced up the Pantera drop within the movie, main Carrey to share his Pantera story.

“The primary time I ever heard Pantera, I used to be driving all the way down to San Diego to do a live performance at a theater and to verify into the resort, and me and my supervisor Jim Miller on the time we put Pantera on and I had by no means heard something prefer it. And it hit me on such a stage of like excessive stimulation that I began laughing uncontrollably for the whole observe,” recollects Carrey. “I used to be simply nervously laughing like, ‘What is occurring proper now?'”

However the story does not finish there. As Carrey revealed, “Then we went to verify into the resort and the blokes behind us within the line to verify into the resort had been Pantera … We rotated and went, ‘Are you kidding me? That is too bizarre, man.’ That is my life.”

Metallic is unquestionably no passing fad for Carrey. As soon as upon showing on The Arsenio Corridor Present, the actor famously impersonated Napalm Loss of life’s Barney Greenway, sick gutturals and all.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is at present in theaters.

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