Issues between the 2 males weren’t grrrrrrr-eat.
Jerry Seinfeld discovered Hugh Grant to be a “ache within the ass” in the course of the filming of the upcoming film “Unfrosted.”
“We had a lot of fights. He’s a ache within the ass to work with. He’s horrible,” Seinfeld, 69, mentioned throughout an look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday.
Hugh Grant was a “ache within the ass” in the course of the filming of “Unfrosted,” in accordance with the movie’s star and director, Jerry Seinfeld. John P. Johnson / Netflix
Seinfeld — who directed the film concerning the origin of Pop-Tarts — referred to as the English actor “horrible.” Getty Photographs
“He tells you earlier than you’re employed with him, ‘You’re gonna hate this.’ And he’s so proper,” the actor continued.
Grant performs Thurl Ravenscroft, who voiced the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes icon Tony the Tiger.
The Seinfeld-directed Netflix movie concerning the origin of Pop-Tarts will debut in Could.
Grant, 63, is a part of the ensemble solid alongside Melissa McCarthy, Dan Levy, Fred Armisen and James Marsden.
Regardless of their quarrels, Seinfeld and Grant set their variations apart after going out to dinner.
“We shot for 10 weeks, and that evening that he and I had dinner — and we acquired drunk having dinner — that was the best evening,” Seinfeld recalled to a shocked Fallon. “As a result of he’s so cool, and he’s that English factor, , that witty. He appears to be like good in a jacket . . . he’s a kind of guys. I like these guys.”
On how he managed to safe the “Regime” star for the movie, Seinfeld revealed that Grant really requested an audition.
“I didn’t consider Hugh Grant for the half,” Seinfeld mentioned. “[I imagined] a annoyed Shakespearean actor who has to play this embarrassing character to make his automotive funds” to make the half work for the Golden Globe winner, he added.
Grant requested an audition for an element in Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart comedy, “Unfrosted.” PA Photographs through Getty Photographs
Seinfeld (proper) recalled that “the best evening” with the actor was the evening they “acquired drunk having dinner.” Getty Photographs
“However he referred to as us and he mentioned, ‘I wish to be within the Pop-Tart film.’ So I acquired the script and auditioned on my cellphone.”
“So he did an audition on his cellphone — with a glass of wine within the different hand, by the way in which,” joked the actor.
“Like I care what the audition was,” he teased. “I’m going, ‘Yeah, positive, you’re Tony the Tiger, positive.’ ”
In July 2023, Netflix introduced that Seinfeld was set to direct, produce and star within the origin movie concerning the breakfast pastry.
The thought got here to him from one in every of his jokes in his 2020 Netflix particular “23 Hours To Kill,” the place he tells the gang that “the again of [his] head blew proper off” when he first noticed Pop-Tarts in a grocery retailer on the age of 8.
Christian Slater stars as Mike Diamond in “Unfrosted.” John P. Johnson / Netflix
Grant performs the actor who voiced Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger. SplashNews.com
“I used to be within the grocery store with my mom, and I used to be like, ‘Maintain up, maintain up — what the hell is that?’ ” Seinfeld recalled. “If you open the packet, there’s two. Why? One’s not sufficient; three is simply too many — that’s why. It was good. Good imaginative and prescient of the longer term from Kellogg’s.”
The challenge was additional brainstormed in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Caught at dwelling watching infinite unhappy faces on TV, I believed this could be time to make one thing primarily based on pure silliness,” he informed Deadline. “So we took my Pop-Tart stand-up bit from my final Netflix particular and exploded it into a large, loopy comedy film.”