Tommy Lee Jones has a (bad) reputation as an actor who carries himself with a certain importance and intensity...and who does not suffer just about anyone gladly, let alone fools. At the time, rumors had done the rounds that when Joel Schumacher was lensing 1997's "Batman Forever," Jones, who played Two-Face/Harvey Dent, and co-star Jim Carrey, who played the Riddler, didn't dig each other very much. To put it bluntly: they did not.
Gossiping on The Howard Stern Show, Carrey was asked straightforwardly by "The King of Media" whether they got along or not. To his credit, Carrey was still diplomatic after all these years, stating: "I was really looking forward to working with Tommy, but he was a little crusty. I think he was just a little freaked out because 'Dumb and Dumber' came out on the same weekend as 'Cobb,' and 'Cobb' was his big swing for the fences and that didn't work out. And that freaked him out a bit."
In fact, Carrey clearly remembered meeting the persnickety Jones for the very first time: "I walked into a restaurant the night before our big scene in the Riddler's lair. I went up to say hi and the blood drained from his face in such a way that I realized that I had become the face of his pain."
Carrey continued the tale, saying that: "He [Jones] got up, kind of shaking, hugged me and said 'I hate you. I really don't like you.'" When Carrey questioned him as to why, Jones replied that, "I cannot sanction your buffoonery."
"He did not want to work with me," Carrey concluded.
Carrey was on the Stern show to promote his new vehicle "Dumb and Dumber To" which hits theaters on November 14. It would be a safe bet that Tommy Lee Jones doesn't have a cameo in that flick...
