{"id":560906,"date":"2025-11-10T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560906\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:51:20","slug":"taylor-momsen-on-jim-carreys-lasting-impact-after-the-grinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560906\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Momsen On Jim Carrey&#8217;s &#8220;Lasting Impact&#8221; After &#8216;The Grinch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom playing Cindy Lou Who to playing rock ballads for sold-out audiences, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taylor-momsen\/\">Taylor Momsen<\/a> still holds <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-carrey\">Jim Carrey<\/a> close to her heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pretty-reckless\/\">Pretty Reckless<\/a> frontwoman praised her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a> (2000) co-star for \u201ctaking [his] craft so seriously\u201d as they reunited at Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> Induction Ceremony for the first time in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI just love that he was very protective of me,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/taylor-momsen-reunites-with-jim-carrey-25-years-after-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-came-out-exclusive-11846421?taid=6910d3d1b15d940001331bf3&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">People<\/a> before performing with the surviving members of Soundgarden for their induction. \u201cHe was always very kind. And just the entire experience of filming Grinch and getting to know him so well, even in all the makeup, was just wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/taylor-momsen-gossip-girl-exit-1236608131\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/taylor-momsen-gossip-girl.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Momsen on 'Gossip Girl'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/09\/taylor-momsen-grinch-girl-cindy-lou-who-1235538676\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/taylor-momsen-the-grinch.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Momsen\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMomsen continued, \u201cAs a young person watching an artist at work and taking their craft so seriously, that left a really powerful, lasting impact on me as an adult now. And I\u2019m excited to be able to tell him that as a grownup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile posing together on the red carpet, Carrey <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Culture3ase\/status\/1987514508945060213?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters<\/a>, \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen each other since <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-grinch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-grinch\" data-tag=\"the-grinch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grinch<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grinch.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"684\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTaylor Momsen and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-carrey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jim-carrey\" data-tag=\"jim-carrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Carrey<\/a> in \u2018Dr. Seuss\u2019 How the Grinch Stole Christmas\u2019 (2000)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYeah, it\u2019s been 25 years,\u201d confirmed Momsen. \u201cThis is insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing her breakout role as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Momsen stepped away from acting in 2010 to focus on her music career.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From playing Cindy Lou Who to playing rock ballads for sold-out audiences, Taylor Momsen still holds Jim Carrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,178884,35230,178885,178886,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-560906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas","10":"tag-jim-carrey","11":"tag-taylor-momsen","12":"tag-the-grinch","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115524081377994345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}