Jim Carrey had barely left the stage at the César Awards in Paris before the internet had already decided he was not really there. The Honorary César he accepted last week—France's highest film distinction—should have been a straightforward career milestone. Instead, it turned into something far stranger.
Within hours of the ceremony, social media was awash with claims that the man delivering an acceptance speech in French was not Carrey at all, but a stunt double. Or a clone. The speculation was extraordinary in its reach, and it did not help that a makeup artist appeared, at least initially, to be stoking it.
