Jeff Daniels played Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber in 1994, starring alongside Jim Carrey. He recently opened up about the iconic role, admitting that his agents weren’t originally happy about the idea of him doing a comedy when he was being billed as a “serious actor” at the time. Daniels told Hour Detroit , “’I wanted to do comedy, and my agents tried to talk me out of it. We knew that 12-year-old boys would think it was Citizen Kane , but we weren't prepared for the No. 1 movie for six weeks, I still have the scrapbook of the 200 reviews for Dumb and Dumber , and there's not one good one.” In a 2019 interview with People , Daniels called the decision a rare time when he didn’t take advice from his agents. He explained, "Their position was, ‘We are trying to turn you into a serious, dramatic actor.…