Is Jim Carrey Gay? Which Role Fueled His Gay Rumors?

Contents:

• JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR
• IS JIM CARREY GAY? IS JIM CARREY MARRIED? HERE IS THE TTH
• THE DAILY GOSSIP: JIM CARREY IS 'PROBABLY' RETIRG, EDIAN JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY BEFORE HOSTG SNL, AND MORE
• NSFW: JIM CARREY’S GAY SEX SCEN
• IS JIM CARREY GAY? IS HE MARRIED? WIFE AND NET WORTH 2023
• IS JIM CARREY GAY? KISSG ANOTHER MAN IS STRANGELY USUAL
• IS JIM CARREY GAY? WHICH ROLE FUELED HIS GAY RUMORS?
• JIM CARREY ALMOST STARRED AN AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO LIVE-ACTN MOVIE
• JIM CARREY'S GAY PRISON LOVE STORY: OSR UNRDOG?
• IS JIM CARREY GAY?
• JIM CARREY GAY ROLE 'I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS' PRAISED
• JIM CARREY’S GAY PRISON MOVIE: COMG OUT!
• MOVIE REVIEW: JIM CARREY’S GAY CON MAN ACTUALLY GREAT!
• JIM CARREY PLAYS STEVEN JAY RSELL I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRISSTEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS.NILE LAPORTEUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 28, 2010 5:46PM EST JIM CARREY & EWAN MCGREGOR "I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS" (ROASI ATTRACTNS)STEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS. RELATED: GA PICLO PROFILED PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL'S GREAT LOVE, WHO SAYS OF RSELL: "I ULD JT BEAT HIM TO A PULP. BUT I LOVE HIM." READ THE STORY.“ALL RIGHT, THIS NEEDS TO BE FLAT, BUT YOU N TAKE A STALS STEEL RAZOR BLA, CUT LIKE THIS…”STEVEN JAY RSELL IS STG ACROSS OM ME, BEHD A BULLETPROOF WDOW OF GLASS, G HIS FGER TO MAKE A CUTTG MOTN. WE ARE PRISON. IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS, WHERE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE GAT, THERE ARE WBOY CHURCH (“COME AS YOU ARE”) AND SIGNS THAT SAY “STOP THE PORN AND BE REBORN—J.” “JT GET YOUR NTATN THERE, AND THEN YOU TAKE SOME AJAX, A PAIR OF SHOELAC, GO LIKE THIS WH , CUTS THE METAL”— AND VOILA! THAT, RSELL SAYS, IS HOW TO MAKE A KNIFE. THE KD OF KNIFE THAT AN MATE WOULD CRAFT ORR TO, SAY, ATTACK A GUARD AND PE JAIL.RSELL IS SOMETHG OF AN EXPERT BOTH AT BEG PRISON—HE IS CURRENTLY SERVG HIS 10TH YEAR OF A 144-YEAR SENTENCE—AND GETTG OUT. OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERD BACK THE 1990S, HE BROKE OUT FOUR TIM OM A NUMBER OF TEXAS RRECTNAL FACILI, ALWAYS VERY LORFUL WAYS (ONCE HE DYED HIS PRISON WH GREEN AND PRETEND TO BE A DOCTOR; ANOTHER TIME, HE FAKED HAVG AIDS), AND ALWAYS BEE HE WANTED TO BE UNED WH HIS LOVER, A MAN NAMED PHILLIP MORRIS. EVERY JAIL-BREAK OCCURRED ON A FRIDAY THE 13TH—THE DAY MORRIS WAS BORN. ABOUT THE FIRST TIME HE MET PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL SAYS, “I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!”• GA PICLO: THE MAN WHO FELL FOR 'KG CON'RSELL’S TALE IS THE STUFF OF PULPY, ROMANTIC FICTN, AND NOT SURPRISGLY, WAS TURNED TO A BOOK, BY STEVE MCVICKER, AND NOW A MOVIE, STARRG JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR, WHICH OUT ON FRIDAY. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS HAS ALREADY BEEN RELEASED EUROPE, AND WAS SUPPOSED TO E OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE U.S., BUT WAS LAYED BEE OF DISTRIBUTN ISSU. THE STALL EVABLY LED TO MORS THAT NO MERCIAL-MD STUD WANTED TO TOUCH A “GAY PRISON MOVIE,” WHICH OPENS WH A PENIS-SHAPED CLOUD, BUT ROADSI ATTRACTNS, WHICH IS RELEASG THE FILM, HOP THAT THIS OUTRéNS WILL PAY OFF E OSR TIME.IN THE MOVIE, CARREY PLAYS RSELL, BUT REALLY HE’S PLAYG JIM CARREY. UNLIKE MCGREGOR—WHO SPENT TIME WH MORRIS ORR TO PERFECTLY MIMIC HIS GENTLE, ARKANSAS PATOIS AND QUETTISH MANNERISMS—CARREY NEVER MET HIS SUBJECT, AND HIS OVER-THE-TOP-ZANY PERFORMANCE DO NOT PTURE THE VULNERABLE-SEEMG MAN WHO’S STG ACROSS OM ME.NOW 53 YEARS OLD, RSELL HAS A PALE, PUDGY FACE AND SPEAKS SOFTLY, A SOUTHERN ACCENT. (HE GREW UP NORFOLK, VIRGIA.) HE HAS TWKLY BLUE EY THAT ARE ASTOUNDGLY PLAYFUL FOR A MAN WHO SPENDS 23 HOURS A DAY ALONE A PRISON CELL, AND HE IS A MASTER AT CRACKG HIMSELF UP. MIDWAY THROUGH A SENTENCE, HE’LL STOP AND HAVE TO REMOVE HIS WIRE-AMED GLASS, VER HIS EY WH HIS HAND, AND LGH OUT. THEN HE’LL RUME THE STORY. HE IS ALWAYS TELLG STORI.“LET ME TELL YOU A STORY,” HE IS SAYG NOW, TO THE OLD-FASHNED, BLACK TELEPHONE RECEIVER, WHICH IS HOW WE’RE MUNITG. (FYI, TALKG TO AN MATE PRISON IS EXACTLY THE WAY LOOKS ON TV AND MOVI.)“THIS GUY—ANOTHER PRISONER—ASKED ME, ‘HOW DO YOU BREAK OUT?’ WE’RE TALKG BACK 2000. SO HE STARTS WRG ME THE NOT. SO I TELL HIM EXACTLY HOW TO DO , EXACTLY HOW HE ULD GET OUT OF THERE. AND THIS FOOL—”HE STOPS. HE IS LGHG TOO HARD TO TALK.“HE”—NOW HE IS PRACTILLY CHOKG—“ HE KEPT THE NOT! “AND HE GOT UGHT WH THEM, WE’RE TALKG YEARS LATER. AND SO ONE DAY THIS GUY TO ME AND SAYS, ‘WE’VE GOT A SE FOR YOU.’ I WAS MY CELL DRKG HOT CHOLATE. I SAID, ‘A SE FOR WHAT?’ HE SAID, ‘ATTEMPTED PE.’ I STARTED LGHG RIGHT THERE. I SAID, ‘I DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO PE.’ HE SAID, ‘ALL THIS ADVICE YOU GAVE SOMEBODY.’IN THE END, RSELL HAD ANOTHER YEAR ADD TO HIS SENTENCE, BUT EVEN SO, TO HIM, THE STORY ISN’T ABOUT BEG BTER, ’S ABOUT GAG YET MORE SIGHT TO HUMAN BEHAVR, A SUBJECT THAT FASCAT HIM: “IT’S JT FUNNY,” HE SAYS. “BEE, ’S LIKE, PEOPLE N’T MEMORIZE ANYTHG!”HE EPTS TO HOWLS.PART OF WHAT IS SO DISARMG ABOUT RSELL IS THAT HE HAS NEVER PHYSILLY HURT ANYBODY, OR OUT OF PRISON, SO HE IS NOT SRY A JACK THE RIPPER KD OF WAY. ALL OF HIS ARRTS, WHICH BEGAN WH SURANCE D BACK 1992, STEM OM WHE-LLAR CRIM, WHICH GENERALLY VOLVED RSELL—WHO HAS AN IQ OF 163—OUTWTG THE KD OF PERSON WHOM HE WOULD SCRIBE AS A MORON.IN THE NOTEBOOK THAT HE KEEPS WH HIM AND FASTIDLY FILLS WH MGS, FACTS, AND FIGUR (CLUDG THE NASDAQ AND DOW JON DAILY X), HE ONCE WROTE: “THE REAL PROBLEM WH SECURY PEOPLE IS THEY’RE BASILLY IGNORANT AND MAYBE JT PLA STUPID.”HE SAYS HE WOULD NEVER HAVE WRTEN THAT TODAY, CLAIMG TO HAVE GAED MORE RPECT FOR THE SYSTEM NOW THAT HE’S OLR, BUT THERE IS NO QUTN THAT RSELL THKS—PROBABLY RRECTLY—THAT HE IS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY AROUND HIM.EVEN HIS RELATNSHIP WH MORRIS, WHICH BEGAN 1995 WHEN THE TWO MET THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL LAW LIBRARY (MORRIS WAS ARRTED FOR NOT RETURNG A RENTAL R), RSELL ADMS THAT HE NNED HIS FUTURE ME TO FALLG LOVE WH HIM.“I SPUN A TALE,” HE SAYS, EXPLAG HOW HE TOLD MORRIS, A MORE NAïVE SOUL, THAT HE WAS AN ATTORNEY, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER BEEN TO LLEGE. “BEE I WASN’T TERTED GETTG A RELATNSHIP WH HIM. I HAD BAD THGS ON MY MD. I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!“BUT THEN TURNED OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD.”THEY WERE REALLY GOOD FOR A WHILE. ONCE OUT OF PRISON, THE MEN LED AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFE (MATCHG RED MERCES AND ROLEX), FUND BY RSELL’S LATT N—HE FAKED A RUME AND FAST-TALKED HIS WAY TO A JOB AS THE CFO OF A MANAGED HEALTH-RE PANY HOTON. HE EMBEZZLED $800,000 OM THE PANY BEFORE BEG UGHT AND TOSSED BACK JAIL.MORRIS ALSO HAD TO DO MORE TIME, BUT HAS BEEN OUT SCE 2003. HE AND RSELL NO LONGER TALK.“PHILLIP IS ON MY VISG LIST,” RSELL SAYS QUIETLY. “BUT I HAVEN’T ENURAGED HIM TO VIS. IT WOULD ONLY E HIM PROBLEMS.”(MORRIS HAS SPOKEN OPENLY ABOUT HOW HE RENTS BEG LASSOED TO RSELL’S SHENANIGANS, AND SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN REASONS FOR NOT VISG.)“I’VE TALKED TO PAROLE AND BASILLY BEEN TOLD THAT IF I EVER DO GET OUT, THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE STIPULATNS—THAT I HAVE NO NTACT WH HIM.”AND HOW DO RSELL FEEL ABOUT THAT? “THERE ARE THGS LIFE THAT YOU DON’T AGREE WH, OR YOU DON’T LIKE, BUT YOU GOTTA ACCEPT. AND THAT’S ONE OF THEM FOR ME.”SOMETHG ELSE HE SAYS HE HAS E TO ACCEPT IS THE FACT THAT, A BT-SE SCENAR, HE WON’T BE OUT OF PRISON FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. “I N MAKE MY PAROLE, AND I PROBABLY WILL, EVENTUALLY. BUT I’LL BE OLD. I’M OLD ALREADY, BUT I’LL BE OLR.”HIS VOICE BE SO SOFT ’S ALMOST HARD TO HEAR HIM, AND A SHADOW PASS OVER HIS EY. “YOU N’T DO ANYTHG ABOUT . YOU N’T. YOU EHER LET DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND YOU STAY ANGRY AND YOU TURN AT NIGHT… THIS IS SOMETHG I’VE HAD TO MATURE TO. I DID TO MYSELF. BUT IF I REACT TO THE WRONG WAY, THEN I’M GIVG . SO I LOOK AT AS GIVG . BEE—THAT’S ! YOU DID .”DPE THIS VERY RATNAL LEVEL-HEADNS, ’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO ASK RSELL IF HE DON’T EVER THK ABOUT ANOTHER JAIL-BREAK. BUT HE SISTS NO. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER: “I’VE PUT TOO MUCH TIME , AND I’VE CHANGED.”BUT WHEN ASKED IF HE ULD BREAK OUT, HE LIGHTS UP, AND STANTLY SAYS, “OH, Y! Y!”THE SHADOWS ARE GONE. HIS EY ARE DANCG.PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.NILE LAPORTE IS THE SENR WT COAST REPORTER FOR THE DAILY BEAST AND THE THOR OF THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KG: AN ALMOST EPIC TALE OF MOGULS, MOVI, AND A COMPANY CALLED DREAMWORKS. NILE LAPORTE

JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR

Jim Carrey is htg the media circu to promote his new film "I Love You, Phillip Morris, " a film which his character is gay.

The topic me up durg Carrey's recent appearance on "The Late Show wh David Letterman, " when Letterman asked, "Do you worry about your image as a heterosexual leadg man playg a homosexual? 23, 2010, 5:09 PM UTCJim Carrey is htg the media circu to promote his new film "I Love You, Phillip Morris, " a film which his character is gay.

If so, you should fely movie tells the te story—and tst me, you'll have trouble believg 's te—of Steven Rsell, a gay man who jt n't stop nng his way through life.

IS JIM CARREY GAY? IS JIM CARREY MARRIED? HERE IS THE TTH

You might even ll this the perfect romantic edy for people who hate tradnal romantic edi: 's homo- rather than hetero-oriented, 's non-fictn, and featur a somewhat off-kilter n man as the romantic lead.

Although the love scen were kept technilly PG, the directors were expectg a fight wh the MPAA bee of the homosexual ntent. Is Jim Carrey gay? Is Jim Carrey Gay?

The qutn of whether or not Jim is gay has been bated and discsed many tim over the years. Some people thk that he’s straight while others believe that he’s gay.

THE DAILY GOSSIP: JIM CARREY IS 'PROBABLY' RETIRG, EDIAN JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY BEFORE HOSTG SNL, AND MORE

The tth is that we jt don’t know for sure if he is gay or not. Jim Carrey has never publicly nfirmed nor nied mors that he is gay. It seems pretty clear that Jim Carrey is a homosexual man.

However, he has never nfirmed or nied that he is gay. It would not surprise me if he eventually out as gay. Do you believe that Jim Carrey is gay?

NSFW: JIM CARREY’S GAY SEX SCEN

Daily gossipThe daily gossip: Jim Carrey is 'probably' retirg, edian Jerrod Carmichael out as gay before hostg SNL, and moreToday's top entertament and celebry newsRich Fury/WireImage1Jim Carrey is 'probably' retirg om actgSomebody stop him!

2Comedian Jerrod Carmichael out as gay before hostg 'SNL'Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is butg a new edy special tonight on the eve of hostg Saturday Night Live, and he as a platform to officially e out as gay. And the secret is that I'm gay.

NSFW: Jim Carrey’s Gay Sex Scen. After the jump, you are ved to watch two rather graphic gay sex scen starrg Jim Carrey om his movie I Love You, Phillip Morris, based on the te story of a former-p turned n-man who abandons his fay after he gets a r crash that turns him gay (LOOK IT UP! Legendary actor Jim Carrey is often speculated to be gay.

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Gay Rumors Debunked.

The veteran actor has never publicly revealed that he is homosexual; stead, he has said he is straight. The speculatns that Jim is gay might have been bee he has not been the most stable regardg his love life. Jim might not be gay, but he did play gay characters many tim his reer.

IS JIM CARREY GAY? KISSG ANOTHER MAN IS STRANGELY USUAL

In I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), Jim plays the -lead role of Steven Rsell, a gay p-turned-nman who meets the love of his life prison. Jim Carrey played a gay role I Love You Phillip Morris.

Now, the ln-dollar qutn is — Is Jim Carrey gay?

On Jim Carrey’s First Ever Gay Role. In his 2009 movie, “I Love You Phillip Morris”, Jim Carrey, whose character the movie is gay, had a kissg scene wh his -actor, Ewan McGregor. Durg his appearance on “The Late Show wh David Letterman” where the host asked him if he was worried about his image as a heterosexual leadg man playg a homosexual role, Carrey replied wh:.

IS JIM CARREY GAY? WHICH ROLE FUELED HIS GAY RUMORS?

Unlike McGregor, who had already played a gay role before, was Carrey’s first time to do so. If I were to be really hont, there’s a homophobic voice that ris up si me and go ‘Gee this is kd of sry’.

Jim Carrey was gay — one of his movi, that’s . If you’re cur to know if Jim Carrey is gay and how many gay films he acted , this article will help you.

Here’s How Gay Rumors About Jim Carrey’s Sexualy Started.

JIM CARREY ALMOST STARRED AN AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO LIVE-ACTN MOVIE

Jim Carrey’s gay mors started the mid-90s when he played the character of “E” the Ace Ventura movi.

In the edic film “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” om 1994 and s follow-up, “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, ” om 1995, Jim Carrey played a gay character. He portrayed “E, ” who is portrayed the films as a bright, feme, and openly gay figure, as the role the films. He also portrayed Steven Rsell, a gay character, the 2009 film “I Love You Phillip Morris, ” spired by the real story of a cunng guy who fell love wh a fellow prisoner.

Jim Carrey was known for his odd behavr at the time, which ntributed to the gay allegatns. It’s ccial to remember that Jim Carrey has prevly dated women and has never openly admted to beg gay.

JIM CARREY'S GAY PRISON LOVE STORY: OSR UNRDOG?

Until today Jim Carrey has only liked femal, so we believe he isn’t gay. It’s bee he has played a few gay rol his reer.

IS JIM CARREY GAY?

One of his most proment gay rol was the 1994 movie “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, ” where he played the character of Lois Ehorn, a police litenant who is revealed to be a transgenr woman. He also played a gay man named Steven Rsell the 2009 movie “I Love You Phillip Morris, ” based on the te story of a n artist who falls love wh his mate prison.

But we mt remember that he never announced his sexualy to be gay. Bowen Yang The Ambiguoly Gay Duo, Robert Smigel’s separable pair of crime fighters, ma their but almost 19 years ago on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show, before makg the leap to Saturday Night Live. ” The origal ia for an Ace and Gary movie had e up back 2000, near the end of the perd when the Ambiguoly Gay Duo short would air once or twice a year and at the height of movie-hungry SNL.

Carell and Carrey got to talkg, and eventually me up that the former had voiced Gary the Ambiguoly Gay Duo. ” Sce filmg the tt for SNL, there hasn’t been any official movement on an Ambiguoly Gay Duo movie, though Smigel toys wh the ia of revivg every so often—and he already has two stars md.

JIM CARREY GAY ROLE 'I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS' PRAISED

Carrey took aim at the Catholic church’s stance on gay rights 2013, which quickly turned to a jab at the many sndals that have faced the relign regardg the sexual asslt of children by prits. A gay prison edy/drama wh two actors who've won much praise but few major awards: The stud may as well have slapped a "HEY OSCAR COMMITTEE! But will the film's explic pictn of gay sex be too much for some of the film dtry's ele -- and crics, and viewers -- to handle?

'"Raw, gay sex on the one hand, sweet, poignant tale on the other: Beneath the superficially explic scen, this film is about, as s tle says, love. Based on the te story of legendary n man Steven Jay Rsell (Carrey's character), "I Love You Phillip Morris" follows Steven as he leav his wife, embrac his homosexualy, lnch myriad money-makg schem and worms his way and out of the Texas prison system, where he meets Phillip Morris (McGregor's character, no relatn to the tobac giant) -- a man he'll follow to the ends of the tim, there's screwball edy. ' Gay people have been portrayed as satly and as martyrs any number of films.

JIM CARREY’S GAY PRISON MOVIE: COMG OUT!

I thk 's time for to see another facet of a gay character on the big screen. ""I Love You Phillip Morris" hasn't generated the buzz that other award-earng films wh gay protagonists have, like the Osr-wng "Milk" and "Brokeback Mounta. " Entertament Weekly raved, "'I Love You Phillip Morris' pulls off gen schem of s own: It dramatiz a highly unual relatnship -- that's an unrstatement -- between two men which homosexual love and sex, arntly enacted on screen a fely tuned tour--force terplay between two movie stars, is jt another piece of the story.

But regardls, "I Love You Phillip Morris" will be remembered for beg the first mastream movie to "go there" when to homosexual sex, and to do so while tellg a rivetg tale. "We hope dienc will be trigued by what is a wholly fascatg te acunt of a man driven to outlandish and creative extrem by his love for someone, and regnize the even hand wh which the film treats the same-sex relatnship at s re, " said Jarrett Barrs, print of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defmatn (GLAAD), which has been a vol supporter of "I Love You Phillip Morris" sce s Sundance premiere. Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Jim Carrey is gay?

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However, there are people that say Jim Carrey is gay, but their ments don't have any nsistency or accuracy of any kd. The g out of Jim Carrey would greatly benef lns of homosexuals around the world who are still the closet.

Celebri such as Jim Carrey never have admted they may be homosexual, this is bee they are certaly not gay or bee they are and do not want to go public. Are you keen on Jim Carrey and have anythg to say about the qutn - Is Jim Carrey gay? - Come on and tell everythg you know about this famo performer beg gay or not.

The film picts the story of Steven Rsell, a gay n artist who meets the love of his life prison, and sets to fd te happs life.

JIM CARREY PLAYS STEVEN JAY RSELL I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRISSTEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS.NILE LAPORTEUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 28, 2010 5:46PM EST JIM CARREY & EWAN MCGREGOR "I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS" (ROASI ATTRACTNS)STEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS. RELATED: GA PICLO PROFILED PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL'S GREAT LOVE, WHO SAYS OF RSELL: "I ULD JT BEAT HIM TO A PULP. BUT I LOVE HIM." READ THE STORY.“ALL RIGHT, THIS NEEDS TO BE FLAT, BUT YOU N TAKE A STALS STEEL RAZOR BLA, CUT LIKE THIS…”STEVEN JAY RSELL IS STG ACROSS OM ME, BEHD A BULLETPROOF WDOW OF GLASS, G HIS FGER TO MAKE A CUTTG MOTN. WE ARE PRISON. IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS, WHERE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE GAT, THERE ARE WBOY CHURCH (“COME AS YOU ARE”) AND SIGNS THAT SAY “STOP THE PORN AND BE REBORN—J.” “JT GET YOUR NTATN THERE, AND THEN YOU TAKE SOME AJAX, A PAIR OF SHOELAC, GO LIKE THIS WH , CUTS THE METAL”— AND VOILA! THAT, RSELL SAYS, IS HOW TO MAKE A KNIFE. THE KD OF KNIFE THAT AN MATE WOULD CRAFT ORR TO, SAY, ATTACK A GUARD AND PE JAIL.RSELL IS SOMETHG OF AN EXPERT BOTH AT BEG PRISON—HE IS CURRENTLY SERVG HIS 10TH YEAR OF A 144-YEAR SENTENCE—AND GETTG OUT. OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERD BACK THE 1990S, HE BROKE OUT FOUR TIM OM A NUMBER OF TEXAS RRECTNAL FACILI, ALWAYS VERY LORFUL WAYS (ONCE HE DYED HIS PRISON WH GREEN AND PRETEND TO BE A DOCTOR; ANOTHER TIME, HE FAKED HAVG AIDS), AND ALWAYS BEE HE WANTED TO BE UNED WH HIS LOVER, A MAN NAMED PHILLIP MORRIS. EVERY JAIL-BREAK OCCURRED ON A FRIDAY THE 13TH—THE DAY MORRIS WAS BORN. ABOUT THE FIRST TIME HE MET PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL SAYS, “I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!”• GA PICLO: THE MAN WHO FELL FOR 'KG CON'RSELL’S TALE IS THE STUFF OF PULPY, ROMANTIC FICTN, AND NOT SURPRISGLY, WAS TURNED TO A BOOK, BY STEVE MCVICKER, AND NOW A MOVIE, STARRG JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR, WHICH OUT ON FRIDAY. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS HAS ALREADY BEEN RELEASED EUROPE, AND WAS SUPPOSED TO E OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE U.S., BUT WAS LAYED BEE OF DISTRIBUTN ISSU. THE STALL EVABLY LED TO MORS THAT NO MERCIAL-MD STUD WANTED TO TOUCH A “GAY PRISON MOVIE,” WHICH OPENS WH A PENIS-SHAPED CLOUD, BUT ROADSI ATTRACTNS, WHICH IS RELEASG THE FILM, HOP THAT THIS OUTRéNS WILL PAY OFF E OSR TIME.IN THE MOVIE, CARREY PLAYS RSELL, BUT REALLY HE’S PLAYG JIM CARREY. UNLIKE MCGREGOR—WHO SPENT TIME WH MORRIS ORR TO PERFECTLY MIMIC HIS GENTLE, ARKANSAS PATOIS AND QUETTISH MANNERISMS—CARREY NEVER MET HIS SUBJECT, AND HIS OVER-THE-TOP-ZANY PERFORMANCE DO NOT PTURE THE VULNERABLE-SEEMG MAN WHO’S STG ACROSS OM ME.NOW 53 YEARS OLD, RSELL HAS A PALE, PUDGY FACE AND SPEAKS SOFTLY, A SOUTHERN ACCENT. (HE GREW UP NORFOLK, VIRGIA.) HE HAS TWKLY BLUE EY THAT ARE ASTOUNDGLY PLAYFUL FOR A MAN WHO SPENDS 23 HOURS A DAY ALONE A PRISON CELL, AND HE IS A MASTER AT CRACKG HIMSELF UP. MIDWAY THROUGH A SENTENCE, HE’LL STOP AND HAVE TO REMOVE HIS WIRE-AMED GLASS, VER HIS EY WH HIS HAND, AND LGH OUT. THEN HE’LL RUME THE STORY. HE IS ALWAYS TELLG STORI.“LET ME TELL YOU A STORY,” HE IS SAYG NOW, TO THE OLD-FASHNED, BLACK TELEPHONE RECEIVER, WHICH IS HOW WE’RE MUNITG. (FYI, TALKG TO AN MATE PRISON IS EXACTLY THE WAY LOOKS ON TV AND MOVI.)“THIS GUY—ANOTHER PRISONER—ASKED ME, ‘HOW DO YOU BREAK OUT?’ WE’RE TALKG BACK 2000. SO HE STARTS WRG ME THE NOT. SO I TELL HIM EXACTLY HOW TO DO , EXACTLY HOW HE ULD GET OUT OF THERE. AND THIS FOOL—”HE STOPS. HE IS LGHG TOO HARD TO TALK.“HE”—NOW HE IS PRACTILLY CHOKG—“ HE KEPT THE NOT! “AND HE GOT UGHT WH THEM, WE’RE TALKG YEARS LATER. AND SO ONE DAY THIS GUY TO ME AND SAYS, ‘WE’VE GOT A SE FOR YOU.’ I WAS MY CELL DRKG HOT CHOLATE. I SAID, ‘A SE FOR WHAT?’ HE SAID, ‘ATTEMPTED PE.’ I STARTED LGHG RIGHT THERE. I SAID, ‘I DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO PE.’ HE SAID, ‘ALL THIS ADVICE YOU GAVE SOMEBODY.’IN THE END, RSELL HAD ANOTHER YEAR ADD TO HIS SENTENCE, BUT EVEN SO, TO HIM, THE STORY ISN’T ABOUT BEG BTER, ’S ABOUT GAG YET MORE SIGHT TO HUMAN BEHAVR, A SUBJECT THAT FASCAT HIM: “IT’S JT FUNNY,” HE SAYS. “BEE, ’S LIKE, PEOPLE N’T MEMORIZE ANYTHG!”HE EPTS TO HOWLS.PART OF WHAT IS SO DISARMG ABOUT RSELL IS THAT HE HAS NEVER PHYSILLY HURT ANYBODY, OR OUT OF PRISON, SO HE IS NOT SRY A JACK THE RIPPER KD OF WAY. ALL OF HIS ARRTS, WHICH BEGAN WH SURANCE D BACK 1992, STEM OM WHE-LLAR CRIM, WHICH GENERALLY VOLVED RSELL—WHO HAS AN IQ OF 163—OUTWTG THE KD OF PERSON WHOM HE WOULD SCRIBE AS A MORON.IN THE NOTEBOOK THAT HE KEEPS WH HIM AND FASTIDLY FILLS WH MGS, FACTS, AND FIGUR (CLUDG THE NASDAQ AND DOW JON DAILY X), HE ONCE WROTE: “THE REAL PROBLEM WH SECURY PEOPLE IS THEY’RE BASILLY IGNORANT AND MAYBE JT PLA STUPID.”HE SAYS HE WOULD NEVER HAVE WRTEN THAT TODAY, CLAIMG TO HAVE GAED MORE RPECT FOR THE SYSTEM NOW THAT HE’S OLR, BUT THERE IS NO QUTN THAT RSELL THKS—PROBABLY RRECTLY—THAT HE IS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY AROUND HIM.EVEN HIS RELATNSHIP WH MORRIS, WHICH BEGAN 1995 WHEN THE TWO MET THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL LAW LIBRARY (MORRIS WAS ARRTED FOR NOT RETURNG A RENTAL R), RSELL ADMS THAT HE NNED HIS FUTURE ME TO FALLG LOVE WH HIM.“I SPUN A TALE,” HE SAYS, EXPLAG HOW HE TOLD MORRIS, A MORE NAïVE SOUL, THAT HE WAS AN ATTORNEY, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER BEEN TO LLEGE. “BEE I WASN’T TERTED GETTG A RELATNSHIP WH HIM. I HAD BAD THGS ON MY MD. I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!“BUT THEN TURNED OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD.”THEY WERE REALLY GOOD FOR A WHILE. ONCE OUT OF PRISON, THE MEN LED AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFE (MATCHG RED MERCES AND ROLEX), FUND BY RSELL’S LATT N—HE FAKED A RUME AND FAST-TALKED HIS WAY TO A JOB AS THE CFO OF A MANAGED HEALTH-RE PANY HOTON. HE EMBEZZLED $800,000 OM THE PANY BEFORE BEG UGHT AND TOSSED BACK JAIL.MORRIS ALSO HAD TO DO MORE TIME, BUT HAS BEEN OUT SCE 2003. HE AND RSELL NO LONGER TALK.“PHILLIP IS ON MY VISG LIST,” RSELL SAYS QUIETLY. “BUT I HAVEN’T ENURAGED HIM TO VIS. IT WOULD ONLY E HIM PROBLEMS.”(MORRIS HAS SPOKEN OPENLY ABOUT HOW HE RENTS BEG LASSOED TO RSELL’S SHENANIGANS, AND SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN REASONS FOR NOT VISG.)“I’VE TALKED TO PAROLE AND BASILLY BEEN TOLD THAT IF I EVER DO GET OUT, THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE STIPULATNS—THAT I HAVE NO NTACT WH HIM.”AND HOW DO RSELL FEEL ABOUT THAT? “THERE ARE THGS LIFE THAT YOU DON’T AGREE WH, OR YOU DON’T LIKE, BUT YOU GOTTA ACCEPT. AND THAT’S ONE OF THEM FOR ME.”SOMETHG ELSE HE SAYS HE HAS E TO ACCEPT IS THE FACT THAT, A BT-SE SCENAR, HE WON’T BE OUT OF PRISON FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. “I N MAKE MY PAROLE, AND I PROBABLY WILL, EVENTUALLY. BUT I’LL BE OLD. I’M OLD ALREADY, BUT I’LL BE OLR.”HIS VOICE BE SO SOFT ’S ALMOST HARD TO HEAR HIM, AND A SHADOW PASS OVER HIS EY. “YOU N’T DO ANYTHG ABOUT . YOU N’T. YOU EHER LET DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND YOU STAY ANGRY AND YOU TURN AT NIGHT… THIS IS SOMETHG I’VE HAD TO MATURE TO. I DID TO MYSELF. BUT IF I REACT TO THE WRONG WAY, THEN I’M GIVG . SO I LOOK AT AS GIVG . BEE—THAT’S ! YOU DID .”DPE THIS VERY RATNAL LEVEL-HEADNS, ’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO ASK RSELL IF HE DON’T EVER THK ABOUT ANOTHER JAIL-BREAK. BUT HE SISTS NO. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER: “I’VE PUT TOO MUCH TIME , AND I’VE CHANGED.”BUT WHEN ASKED IF HE ULD BREAK OUT, HE LIGHTS UP, AND STANTLY SAYS, “OH, Y! Y!”THE SHADOWS ARE GONE. HIS EY ARE DANCG.PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.NILE LAPORTE IS THE SENR WT COAST REPORTER FOR THE DAILY BEAST AND THE THOR OF THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KG: AN ALMOST EPIC TALE OF MOGULS, MOVI, AND A COMPANY CALLED DREAMWORKS. NILE LAPORTE

When asked about the film McGregor said: "I'm very keen that 's a gay movie.

There was que a lot of talk at Sundance ( 2009) that 'Well, 's not a gay movie. It's a film about guys who happen to be gay. ' And I was thkg, 's nothg but a gay movie.