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Jim Carrey and his How the Grinch Stole Christmas costar Taylor Momsen confirmed off their hard-rock bona fides once they reunited on the 2025 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony this weekend to rejoice their mutual love for Seattle legends Soundgarden.

Carrey introduced the honour to them in a shifting speech, whereas Momsen carried out their 1992 tune "Rusty Cage" with the band's remaining members after which joined a number of different particular company — together with Brandi Carlile, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, and Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains — for a powerful rendition of their 1994 hit "Black Gap Solar."

Their participation within the tribute marked Carrey and Momsen's first time reuniting for a giant public outing in 25 years. They met on the set of The Grinch, by which the Carrey portrayed the titular Christmas-hating curmudgeon and the Gossip Lady actress performed Cindy-Lou Who, the candy little Whoville woman who helps open the Grinch's coronary heart. The momentous event was well timed, as Momsen not too long ago recalled how she didn't know what Carrey really seemed like once they labored collectively as a result of he was buried beneath a ton of prosthetic make-up.

Throughout the Nov. 8 ceremony, Momsen, who was solely 7 years previous when she filmed The Grinch, shared a few of her favourite reminiscences of constructing the film with PEOPLE, expressing how working with Carrey left a "lasting impression" on her.

"I simply love that he was very protecting of me," she mentioned. "He was all the time very sort. And simply all the expertise of filming Grinch and attending to know him so nicely, even in all of the make-up, was simply great."

Carrey helped welcome Soundgarden into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame with Lily Cornell Silver, the daughter of the group's late frontman, Chris Cornell. The rock star died by suicide in 2017 on the age of 52.

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In his remarks, the Ace Ventura actor praised Soundgarden for having "resurrected rock & roll for me" within the late Eighties and early '90s. He remembered how he felt watching them carry out their 1996 tune "Fairly Noose" throughout his first time internet hosting Saturday Evening Reside, including that he requested them because the musical company for that episode.

"I stood proper in entrance of them, letting the waves of electrical energy wash over me like an audio baptism," Carrey recalled. "They pushed me beneath, and after I got here up, I used to be free."

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Surviving Soundgarden members Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil, and Ben Shepherd, alongside unique bassist Hiro Yamamoto, collected their awards for the induction after their efficiency. Following their speeches, Cornell's different daughter, Toni Cornell, carried out her personal tribute to the band and her late father, singing their 1994 monitor "Fell on Black Days."

Different inductees into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame this 12 months included Outkast, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, and Unhealthy Firm.

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