I’m talking of course about the one and only Jim Carrey. He had small parts you may or may not a have recognised him from ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ and small quirky films like ‘Once Bitten’ and ‘Earth Girls Are Easy’ - little did we know the juggernaut that was soon to crash into our lives. Prior to 1994, he was just the token white guy on ‘In Living Color’ with standout characters like Vera De Milo the bodybuilder and Fire Marshal Bill - no easy feat when you’re surrounded by the entire Wayans clan, Jamie Foxx, Rosie Perez and a pre “J-Lo” Jennifer Lopez, just to name a few. We also forget that true movie stars have been around looooooong before the internet and today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of them. But as J-Law showed, Hollywood knew about her long before we ever did. Did I mention that she’s only 28? My point is the public (myself included) seem to believe that because of the internet, social media, clicks, likes, anyone with a keyboard and magazine sale, that we make movie stars. That’s 18 (and counting) films in the eight years since her first nomination. She wins the Oscar in 2013 and from there she continues to release three more ‘Hunger Games’ films, two more ‘X-Men’ with another on the way, ‘American Hustle’, ‘Red Sparrow’, ‘Joy’, ‘Mother’, ‘Passengers’ etc. Then the next year ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ is released. Keep in mind this is before she even won. That same year she starred in not one but two major film franchises - ‘X-Men’ and ‘The Hunger Games’. Think about it in 2011 she was nominated for an Oscar.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes a movie comes out with a lead actor some might recognise but not know their name, then the film turns out to be a smash and suddenly said lead actor is in everything! The most recent example is Jennifer Lawrence. If you were fortunate enough to be alive in 1994 and weren’t living under a rock, you, me and everyone else bore witness to something extraordinary - the making and stratospheric rise of a superstar.

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