These How the Grinch Stole Christmas Secrets Are Pure Whobilation

It wasn't a picnic for me either, mate.

Then Hiro said that all is well, that ended well.

“About two months after filming wrapped, Jim and I spoke again,” he told the publication. Time. “He said he admired me, said I did a great job and said thank you. I thanked him too because he went through all this. I think, How the Grinch Stole Christmas was the hardest film I've ever worked on. It's a good memory, but if we had to do it again… we wouldn't do it!”

As it turns out, Hiro, who has since won two Oscars in 2017, Darkest Hour and 2019s Bomb-started therapy after his experience on HTGSK.

Things have gotten bad enough, Hiro. told Vulture in 2018, the producer asked him to leave to show Carrey how important he was to the production. (The film's makeup department was hugebut among the credits, Hiro is the only one dedicated to the Grinch.)

According to Hiro, he didn't answer when Carrey called a week later, but Howard assured him that the actor had vowed to change his behavior.

While his friends urged him to ask for a big raise, the Kyoto-based artist continued: He decided to ask the studio for help getting a green card instead.

It worked, and he has since become an American citizen. (And therapy helped him realize that he was “really an introvert.”)