If you can believe it, it has been 26 years since Dumb and Dumber was released. As old as that might make you feel, it is incredible to witness just how timeless this movie has become.
More than two decades later, and this movie is as iconic as ever.
Here are some behind the scenes secrets that fans don't know!
Although the two created the screenplay years beforehand, it took some time for the project to come to fruition.
They eventually brought the idea to Eddie Murphy's production company, and the rest is history.
"Jeff Daniels was not the obvious choice because he hadn't done any, you know, out and out comedies before that," Bobby Farrelly recalled back in 2014 speaking to Hollywood Reporter.
"'We're begging you, not to do this,'" he recalled his agents telling him to the Hollywood Reporter.
"There were three agents on the phone the night before I was to fly the next morning to do wardrobe for Dumb and Dumber."
"Frankly, Jim Carrey is a comedic genius. With all due respect, he's going to wipe you off the screen. Say no, and we'll take care of it.'"
"Jeff gets up there and he does not know what he's going to do until he sees what you're doing and then he plays off that," Bobby said to The Hollywood Reporter.
"He's a genius at doing that. And Jim understood. He was elevating him so he fought for him."
"Jim just, before we'd even said a word, he just went into Lloyd," Jeff said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014.
"He just did that thing"—"I motor-boated him," Jim inturrupted, proudly.
He admitted in an interview with the New York Times in 1994 that he "really wanted to work with Jim."
In fact, he wanted to work with Jim so badly, that he accepted the role even though he would only be paid $50,000 for the movie, while Jim was paid $7 million.
Thanks to an old sports-related injury, Jim already had a chipped front tooth.
It had a cap on it, but the night before filming started, he used a beer bottle to remove it. Talk about dedication to the role!
While Chris Elliott and Rob Lowe were both considered for the role of Harry.
Evidently, the Farrellys brothers had a specific type they wanted for this film!
"Because he thought his character should have the split tooth. He didn't think of it until that night. He's like, '[expletive], I gotta get this thing off.'"
"We did trim it a little," Bobby told Cinema Blend.
"That was our decision, yeah," Peter chimed in. "But yeah, we were pushing it, but they didn't get it and I remember at the premiere, Bob Shay, who was the head of the studio, gave a toast or a speech up front and he said, 'By the way, this isn't why I got into the movie business.'"
The shocked look on Jeff's face during that scene was 100% authentic!
Leave it up to Jim Carrey to serve us the most hilarious improvisation.
Fortunately, the creators of the movie warmed up to Jeff and decided to keep him on.
Peter and Bobby chose the names Harry and Lloyd for the main characters of their first movie because the name of a comedian they're big fans of is named Harold Lloyd.
