In his new movie, I Love You, Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey spends substantial screentime kissing his co-star Ewen McGregor. And when he's not kissing him, he's telling him how much he loves him. And yet at a Sundance press conference, the actor exclaimed, "I don't think it's a gay movie. It really is about the lengths we go to for acceptance and love."
In the movie, which is based on a true story, Carrey plays a married Christian family man who, in the wake of brain trauma sustained in a car accident, metamorphizes into a con artist who likes men. Or at least Ewen McGregor. Who, while not being quite as butch as, say, Keira Knightley, is, as far as we know, a dude. Of course, one must consider marketability, and so apparently Carrey thinks it best to describe his flick in terms of romance novel abstractions rather than physical particulars. This approach certainly worked for Brokeback Mountain's horny cowboys, so who knows, maybe it will work again.
Here's the trailer.