Everyone knows that dear Jim is a little ‘out there’, and that recent interview with E! News’s Catt Sadler only served to remind us of his oddities.

If you missed that then THIS is definitely worth a watch – “there is no me” being my favourite bit.

When you’re playing someone as odd as Andy Kaufman, as Jim did in 1999’s Man on the Moon, method acting is often required to get inside the character’s head.

Ask those who worked with Jim on the movie, though, and they might say he went a little too far.

The behind-the-scenes footage from a new doccie, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, tells you what you need to know:

Rolling Stone with this:

Spike Jonze produced The Great Beyond, while documentary filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie, The Yes Men) directed it. To make it, he went through approximately 100 hours of footage shot on set by Kaufman’s girlfriend, Lynne Margulies, and writing partner Bob Zmuda during the four-month making of the movie.

And you thought talking out of his arse in Ace Ventura was weird.

[source:rollingstone]