John Stamos jokes he nearly played the Grinch in Jim Carrey's Christmas classic

But another Hollywood star is joking he could possibly have landed the iconic role, if not for an allergy to the prosthetics used on set to transform him into a gruff, green menace. 

"I went to the makeup test," he said. "And I was allergic to the, you know, all the prosthetics."

Although Stamos certainly had the star power to helm the film, his rep told Fox News Digital that he was joking with his story.

"The first day was 8.5 hours. And I went back to my trailer and put my leg through the wall, and I told [director] Ron Howard I couldn't do the movie." Carrey explained that Brian Grazer, Howard's partner and co-founder of their production company, Imagine Entertainment, smoothed things over. 

Grazer "came up with a brilliant idea, which was to hire a gentleman who is trained to teach CIA operatives how to endure torture. And so, that's how I got through 'The Grinch,'" Carrey admitted. The actor says he did the makeup 100 times over the course of filming.