“I think roles find me. And they speak to me. Just like a painting or sculpture speaks to me.' - Jim Carrey
The show’s drama pivots upon the question of whether Mr. Pickles is a Mr. Rogers-style innocent, or a naif out of step with the modern world. But Carrey feels no ambivalence. “I saw him absolutely as an innocent. I saw him as somebody who was flawed, and never assumed that he was perfect, but he was coming from as pure a place as a person can come from.”
Pickles aims to bring goodness and joy into the world through his art, and Carrey says he can relate. “That’s entirely how I see myself. I’m going to do whatever I can to bring to the world, something inventive. And whenever possible, when pain happens, when confusion happens, when disillusionment happens, I turn it into something. I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.
Carrey hasn’t been a TV series regular since his early “In Living Color” days, but he welcomed the opportunity to inhabit one character for the long haul. “You don’t get to spend a lot of time with characters, normally. You’re in and you’re out. Here, you’re drilling down instead of thrusting yourself to the next plot point. Just as in life, you learn who you are as you go along. As time goes on, Jeff Pickles comes into view in new and extraordinary ways.
“He brings magic with him,” Carrey says of the French director who helmed six episodes of the first season. “When he decided to jump into ‘Kidding,’ that was really the deciding factor for me. I thought, at the very least, this is an experiment worth doing. Let’s go crazy again.” Looking back at films like “The Truman Show,” and even the seemingly sillier stuff like “The Mask,” “Liar, Liar,” “Yes Man” and “Me, Myself & Irene,” it’s clear that Carrey has long been an avatar of high-concept existentialism. He reiterates his sense that these roles have found him, as if for a specific purpose. “These things have been little teachings,” Carrey says. “I know they’re fun, as well.
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