HOLLYWOOD star Jim Carrey has told how he was given training from an expert who advised the CIA on dealing with torture as he coped with a gruelling make-up regime in one of his movies.

The star had to endure a "horrendous" daily ordeal lasting eight-and-a-half hours as he prepared for his performance in children's film The Grinch.

In an interview for BBC1's Graham Norton Show, to be screened tomorrow, he said he also listened to hits by The Bee Gees to calm him as he spent long

The interview is screened on BBC1 tomorrow at 10.35pm.