Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen Reunite 25 Years After ‘The Grinch’

Hearts everywhere are growing three sizes after the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who reunited in the lead-up to Christmas 2025.

Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen, who played the Grinch and Cindy Lou, respectively, in 2000’s Ron Howard-directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas, met up in the press room at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, November 8.

The pair were all smiles at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles as they chatted and posed together for photos. Carrey, 63, wore a tuxedo-style pin-striped trench coat and T-shirt while Momsen, 32, rocked a leather jacket over a black lingerie-style dress. She completed the ensemble with stacked necklaces, fishnets and combat boots, finishing the look with tousled waves and smoky eye makeup.

“We haven’t seen each other since The Grinch,” Carrey told photographers as he smiled next to Momsen, who added, “It’s been 25 years!”

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The former costars were on hand to honor Soundgarden as the band was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Carrey was joined by the group’s late frontman Chris Cornell’s daughter Lily for a speech, before the surviving members of Soundgarden — Matt Cameron, Ben Shepherd, Hiro Yamamoto and Kim Thayil — took to the stage for a performance, which included Momsen.

She and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) performed “Rusty Cage” with the band, while Brandi Carlile and Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) took on “Black Hole Sun.”

Although it’s been a quarter of a century since How the Grinch Stole Christmas was released, Momsen enjoys reliving her days in Whoville. During her appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Wednesday, November 5, Momsen opened up about her positive experience filming the movie at 7 years old.

“Grinch, to me, was always great. Like, I don’t have any bad memories with Grinch,” she told host Alex Cooper. “Everything about it was awesome. Like, it was super fun. It was such an incredible project to be a part of that was so upper echelon at such a young age to see, you know, actors of that caliber. Jim Carrey and Molly Shannon, etc, etc, Ron Howard. And then it was also my first experience in a recording studio.”

Although she said she was “teased relentlessly” for playing the role at school, she said that, as she’s gotten older, she only remembers the experience being “wonderful.”

“So, why am I shunning this?” she questioned. “I am Cindy Lou Who, like, I am that girl, like, I’m still that girl.”

She also admitted that it was Grinch fans’ idea for her to record a new version of “Where Are You Christmas,” which she sang in the movie, with her band, The Pretty Reckless. After years of requests for a rock version of the holiday tune, Momsen and her bandmates — Ben Phillips, Mark Damon and Jamie Perkins — decided to record their take, which they released last month.

“I kind of turned to everyone and went, ‘Should we just try this? Like, should we just see what happens here.’ And so we put together an arrangement … we go into the rehearsal space and we jam through it once, and I kid you not, Alex, by the end of the song, these four depressed, miserable people had giant grins on our faces,” she explained, “and we all kind of looked at each other and went, ‘Was that just great? Like, I think that there was something magic that just happened. Here, are we doing this? Now we’re doing this.’”