# Has Jim Carrey Evolved?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 22, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-jim-carrey-evolved/309320 "2005-06-22T05:41:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-jim-carrey-evolved/309320/21 "2005-06-22T18:04:36Z")

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> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> Early in his career, Carrey was in a TV movie, [“Doing Time on Maple Drive”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104118/), in which he played a young alcoholic in a serious role. He was good enough to have received an Emmy nomination.

Isn’t that odd…one of the supporting actors in the film, Bennet Cale, was a pretty good friend of mine back when the film came out. I think I have seen the film three or four times over the years and never realized that was a young Jim Carrey in the role! Which proves what I was saying earlier. Because I didn’t know Jim Carrey as a comedian back then, he seemed very believable in the role.

I think the next time this come on television, I will watch it again to see if I still feel the same way about Carrey’s role.

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