He eventually lopped his hair off in 2016, debuting his new short-haired look on the album artwork for Starboy. He kept the style anyway so that he didn’t end up looking 'like everyone else,” also wanting to be remembered as “iconic and different.” In 2015, he told Rolling Stone that he’d “probably cut it” if it started to interfere with his sight, however.

The Weeknd says his trademark dreadlock hairstyle - which was inspired by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - caused him to sometimes wake up with neck pain.

His trademark former hairstyle was a pain - literally Jim Carrey was my first inspiration to be any kind of performer, and I went to breakfast with him on my first day of being 30.” “On my birthday, he called and told me to look out my window, and on his balcony he had these giant red balloons, and he picked me up and we went to breakfast,” The Weeknd recalled. Nearly three decades later, the men were introduced over text, and The Weeknd invited Carrey to his Los Angeles condo to hear some new music in 2019.Īs it turned out, not only did they discover that they lived in the same neighborhood - and even got out telescopes to wave to each other - but Carrey also knew the exact theater his mother took him to see The Mask. “It blew me away,” he said, adding that it fueled his dream of one day attending film school. The Weeknd also told Variety that fellow Ontario native Jim Carrey’s 1994 comedy The Mask was the first movie his single mother, Samra Tesfaye, took him to see in theaters when he was 4 years old. He has a special connection to Jim Carrey

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