I guess the A-List Oscar Winning Acting that Tommy Lee Jones routinely displays in Archetype Roles of The Standard Issue No Nonsense Crotchy Old Man is NO ACT. Actor/Comedian Jim Carey on Tommy Lee Jones’s OPEN DISLIKE for him on the Set of Batman Forever in US Weekly:
“I walked into a restaurant the night before our big scene in the Riddler’s lair and the maitre’d said, ‘You’re working with Tommy Lee Jones, aren’t you?’ And I said ‘Yeah, I am.’ He said, ‘He’s in the back corner, he’s having dinner.’ I said, ‘Oh, great, I’ll go say hi.’” Carrey told Stern. “I went up to say hi and the blood drained from his face, in such a way that I realized that I had become the face of his pain or something.”
“He got up, kind of shaking, and hugged me and said ‘I hate you. I really don’t like you,’” Carrey added. “I was like ‘Wow, okay. Well, what’s going on man?’ And he said, ‘I cannot sanction your buffoonery.’ He did not want to work with me at that point.”