Shortly before "Kick Ass 2" hit the box office, Jim Carrey withdrew his support from the comic-book adaptation. In a Twitter thread posted in June 2013, Carrey explained how the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, made him rethink his performance.
"I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence," the actor wrote (via Twitter). "My apologies to everyone [and] to others involve[d] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."
In response, the writer of the "Kick-Ass" comic book series, Mark Millar, wrote on his blog that he, too, is "horrified by real life violence," but pointed out that "Kick Ass 2 isn't a documentary" (via The Guardian). Millar went on to explain, "This is fiction and ... Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless bodycount of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence."
The writer concluded by stating it's the job of storytellers "to entertain" and that their "toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action movie."
