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What is it with comedy actors who love burying themselves under prosthetics, mugging for the cameras, and playing multiple roles in the same movie being difficult on set? Jim Carrey<\/a> wasn\u2019t the first, and based on history, he won\u2019t be the last, either. That said, he might be the only one to send someone to therapy.<\/p>\n Then again, you never know. After all, Bill Murray has been terrorising co-stars, colleagues, filmmakers, and producers for decades, creating a bizarre two-sided persona where he\u2019s one of cinema\u2019s most beloved comedic veterans, albeit one that a lot of people are adamant is a complete dickhead.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t talk about tetchy comics without mentioning Mike Myers<\/a>, either, who emerged as one of the genre\u2019s most famous men of many faces in the 1990s, and promptly spent the next decade and a half being plagued by tales of ego trips, sabotage, and generally dickish behaviour on almost every film.<\/p>\n Ironically, both Carrey and Myers were heavily inspired by the late and legendary Peter Sellers, who was the worst of the bunch<\/a>. By many accounts, he was an absolute nightmare to deal with, and he had no problems in sabotaging entire productions on a whim, making several enemies along the way.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s one defensible aspect to Carrey\u2019s antics, it\u2019s that he was fucking miserable. Spending hours a day being caked in green latex and fur to play the title character in Ron Howard\u2019s How the Grinch Stole Christmas made him so angry that he threatened to quit and return his $20 million<\/a> salary, and he only made it through the shoot with the help of some CIA training.<\/p>\n Obviously, that doesn\u2019t make it OK for him to be a nuisance, with makeup artist Kazu Hiro bearing the brunt. The winner of the Academy Award for \u2018Best Makeup and Hairstyling\u2019 for Darkest Hour, and a nominee for Click, Norbit, Bombshell, and Maestro, who also worked on Men in Black, Tim Burton\u2019s Planet of the Apes, and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Hellboy, he\u2019s one of the best in the business.<\/p>\n