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This article says it’s likely fillers and not radical cosmetic surgery: https://radaronline.com/p/jim-carrey-plastic-surgery-unrecognizable-new-face-explained/

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Left: silver fox aging well

Right: Fox News pundit

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 3 points 27 minutes ago

I believe scientists call it "Mar A Lago face".

[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago

This is sad.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Honestly if it wasn't for the elevated cheeks it would have been a good.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

Is he trying to escape from the police?

[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just like kristin wiig... she hosted snl and i genuinely didn't recognize her. She also just didn't have the same over the top facial expressions, was sad to watch

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 19 hours ago

Erin Moriarty from The Boys. Lip injections at 29.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 204 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Tragic. Why don't famous people realise how much better it looks to age naturally?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because Hollywood will shut you out if you age.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

"Hollywood" is on it's way out after the big heyday of the last 100 years or so. Everyone has a movie studio in their pocket nowadays and distribution is way easier than it used to be. So age naturally. There are other places to jump and prance than hollywood.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 135 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm going to play a little devil's advocate, not about the "if they should" but more about how they end up looking unrecognizable.

I used to be very athletic. Then I got very heavy. Then I went back to athletic, but when I did so I ended up with the Mitch McConnell turkey neck. It was fugly, I'm not going to lie, and it bothered me. I'm also opposed to plastic surgery so I figured that's the way it was going to be. Then I got cancer in my neck. After they cut out the tumor and all other affected tissue, they had to do a bit of reconstruction. Out went the cancer along with the turkey neck and my jaw line is looking like a million bucks. I'm hot again baby!

And that's the problem. I can see somebody having a positive first experience with reconstructive surgery and assuming that more of it will make it more better. You feel better about yourself and suddenly believe that you can feel better still. You'd be wrong, but I get why you would think that.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

try to get cancer to look better. got it

[–] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Alternatively, break your foot. I lost 40 pounds.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the nuanced perspective. What a journey though, you don't often hear about the silver linings of cancer treatment.

It is such a trap though, crazy to imagine not seeing it.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

its hollywood inner circle requirement. you must look 20years younger even if you dont look human anymore.

the ISAIP people, rob and kaitlyn was so drastic, and they are pretty desperate to stay in hollywood inner circles. rob even started collabing with semi- questionable people, ryan reynolds who himself had plastic surgery. even the fans in the sub are clowning on the appearance.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Nothing says glamour like rich old people badly failing to reclaim their youth. I wish Hollywood would hurry up and die.

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[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 116 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Doesn’t look bad per-se, but he definitely doesn’t look like the Jim Carrey everyone pictures in their head anymore. In fact I would 100% not be able to tell you who the person in that second picture is.

I wonder how much this gimps his iconic ability to crazily distort his face.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It's different lighting, different facial expression, different angle and 20 years different. Plus the right image is touched with AI.

I just don't see the big deal. Every has inflammation. It's a known thing with age. Does he look different? Absolutely. It could be aging as much as fillers. He doesn't look that different to me.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

To be fair, the one on the left is probably from years ago. His face immediately before the fillers on the right was much older than the one on the left. Putting those two side-by-side isn’t exactly an honest before-and-after photo.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 day ago

For a guy whos schtick was the elastic face impressions, this seems like a not so wise move, but to each their own...

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

so the image supplied by OP has my AI senses tingling, at least the part on the right.
something is off about the glow of the skin and the hairline.
when searching for the whole image in tineye it does find a lot of instances of the left image.
when searching for only the right image it doesn’t find any.

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while this does not mean a conclusive and definite indication that this is AI, i’m nevertheless doubtful.
so, @ickplant@lemmy.world , where did you find that image? i feel that while his transformation of his iconic face is already ruinous enough, why would we have to go one step further and display AI altered results?!

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This picture was from the Cesar Awards, which is a film awards thing in France held a few days ago. It's definitely not AI

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

thanks a lot, that information was very valuable for the hunt of truth! so at the César award the pictures taken of him are definitely surprising as his normal face is hardly to be recognized:

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let’s focus on the last picture: we can see in the background the writing of the award’s ceremony and a screen with a person on it, the subject at hand is wearing a black shirt with a black bow tie.

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now we’ve got the same image composition of the last one (greenish background, screen with person in the back, head tilt) but he’s no longer wearing a bow tie but a turtle neck. also his eye colour has changed. so these last images are quite safe to be assumed as AI slop.

this takes us back to the beginning, in the photo composition of this submission Jim Carrey is also wearing a turtle neck, so i think we can also assume by extension that it is part of the same AI slop generated series of images.

@paranoid@lemmy.world for somebody with that handle, i would have assumed more skepticism ;)

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I approach everything with a healthy amount of skepticism, and alter my stance when presented with evidence.

If you look up "jim carrey cesar awards speech" on your search engine of choice, you'll see tons of articles about his changed appearance, and can even find his acceptance speech where he does his best speaking French. There was even an article published in the last few hours where he confirmed it was him and not a body double.

There is no AI or AI slop. But there are changes in lighting and angles, which can have a massive effect on appearances.

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

yeah, he could have always changed his dress shirt with bow tie into a turtleneck during the event

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Oh god those look worse than both images in the original post

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I got it off a post by a caricaturist, so if it’s AI, it could be him generating it but I doubt it. He probably grabbed it from someone else. Here is the image I cropped:

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

got advice from jenny McCarthy.

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

repulsive, typical American fakiness

[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He was Canadian. He moved to the US and has been a US citizen since 2004. About the time he started acting batshit and giving STIs to half the women in LA.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Found a recent picture of him and he is indeed unrecognizable:

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is from the same day and it looks much less jarring. Lighting really makes a difference.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jim-carreys-rep-c-sar-165750024.html

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

I genuinely wouldn't recognise him...

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If that's the same person, they had shit ton of dental work done, because the angles are different

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

looks like he had veneers put on his teeth and a bunch of Botox.

They got to him. Big Face Filler got to him! If they can get to Jim, what hope is there?!

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm not sure it's the real Jim Carrey!

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I hate it. Someone tint his face green because it's very Mask like now.

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[–] null@lemmy.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see why he'd have anything done, he naturally looked pretty alright even for his age. Oh well, his choice.. 🤷

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