Polygon.com / 21.12.24

Sonic 3's incredible laser dance sequence was all Jim Carrey's idea, of course

One of the standout moments of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 sees Jim Carrey pulling double duty as two Doctors Robotnik  Ivo and his grandfather Gerald  merrily dancing their way through a classic Hollywood trope: the laser security grid. That sequence was not only technically challenging to pull off, Sonic 3 director Jeff Fowler tells Polygon, it was a scene proposed by Carrey himself which sure sounds like a thing Jim Carrey would do. In our early conversations, it was one of Jims requests, Fowler recalls. In the first [Sonic the Hedgehog movie], theres a moment where Robotnik is in his lab, and thinks hes by himself. He puts on some music [Where Evil Grows by the Poppy Family] and he just starts dancing. He has a little dance party, and then he gets interrupted by [his assistant] Stone. And so Jim wanted to dance again. Of course, we had to not just have him dance, we had to go big, and really go for it. Carrey even requested the song that was ultimately used in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, The ...
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