Jim Carrey kisses Tony Clifton impersonator on the lips after series of bizarre interviews at TIFF

The actor gave a rambling interview about "meaningless" the previous day 
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Jennifer Ruby12 September 2017
The Weekender

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Jim Carrey continued his bizarre run of red carpet appearances with a rather affectionate display at the Jim And Andy: The Great Beyond premiere.

The US comedian planted a huge kiss on a Tony Clifton impersonator as he posed for photos during Monday night’s opening at the Toronto Film Festival.

Seemingly in great spirits, the ebullient actor joked around in front of fans and assembled media while promoting his new documentary about Andy Kaufman’s comic creation.

On Sunday, Carrey surprised interviewers by giving a rambling and largely nonsensical interview at the Harper’s Bazaar Icons party, saying that there was “no meaning to this.”

Good spirits: Jim Carrey is ebullient on the red carpet
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“There’s no meaning to any of this,” he said on the red carpet. “So I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and join and here I am. I mean, you got to admit, it’s pretty meaningless.”

He continued: “Celebrating icons, boy, that is the absolute lowest aiming possibility that we could come up with. I don’t believe in icons. I don’t believe in personalities.

“I believe that peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention and disguise, beyond the red ‘S’ that you wear on your chest, that makes bullets bounce off.”

Carrey added: “I believe we’re a field of energy dancing for itself. And, I don’t care.

“There is no me. There’s just things happening, and there are clusters of tetrahedrons moving around together. … It’s not our world. We don’t matter. There’s the good news.”

Carrey is currently embroiled in an on-going court case after the mother of his late girlfriend filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him.

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