Hugh Grant has been jokingly called “a pain in the ass to work with” by co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for Netflix movie Unfrosted.
The Notting Hill star, 63, will play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic tart pop.
Speaking about the film about Jimmy Fallon, Jerry joked that Hugh was “horrible” to work with, adding that the actor himself had warned him before filming that he was going to “hate” him.
Despite leaving presenter Jimmy horrified with his comments, he revealed they enjoyed a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh’s “witty” nature.
In the film, Hugh stars in the upcoming film, called Unfrosted, as a struggling Shakespearean actor who plays the character of Frosties.
Hugh Grant has been jokingly called “a pain in the ass to work with” by his co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for the Netflix film Unfrosted (pictured).
Jerry explained: ‘We had a lot of fights. He’s a pain to work with. It is awful.
“He tells you before you work with him, ‘You’re going to hate this.’ And he’s absolutely right.”
He added: “We shot for 10 weeks, and that night he and I had dinner, and we got drunk while we had dinner, it was the best night.”
‘Because it’s so cool, and it’s kind of English, you know, that clever. He looks good in a jacket…he’s one of those guys. I love those guys.’
Jerry added that he originally didn’t have Hugh in mind to play the role, but insisted on auditioning for the role.
“I didn’t think of Hugh Grant for the role. (I imagined) a frustrated Shakespearean actor who has to play this embarrassing character to pay for the car.’
“But he called us and said, ‘I want to be in the Pop-Tart movie.'” So I got the script and auditioned on my phone.
“So he auditioned on his phone, with a glass of wine in the other hand, by the way. Like I care what the audition was. I say, “Yeah, right, you’re Tony the Tiger, right.”
The Notting Hill star will play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic tart pop.
Speaking about the film about Jimmy Fallon, Jerry joked that Hugh was “horrible” to work with, adding that the actor himself had warned him before filming that he was going to “hate” him.
In an interview with Richard Eden of The Daily Mail, Jerry revealed that he and Hugh “were yelling at each other on set.”
“You should have heard us yelling at each other on set,” Jerry said.
“I was telling him, ‘You don’t know anything about comedy. You only know how to be witty in a pub. “Here in America, we really have to laugh.”
‘He said, “I know a lot about comedy!”
Seinfeld explained that he wants every word “exactly as it’s written,” adding, “Hugh Grant was saying, ‘Give me a chance to find it,’ and I was saying, ‘I’ve found it.’ Do it like this”. “
Hugh has previously called himself a “grumpy Englishman,” telling ELLE in 2009, “I’m in a bad mood.” My mother had a theory about the English: they always serve two below-average gin and tonics. They need two gin and tonics to become human.
Speaking about his role as Oompa Loompa in the colorful Wonka last year, he said: “It was like a crown of thorns… I couldn’t have hated all of this more.”
Hugh previously shared that he could be tempted to make a shocking career change despite receiving “scary” abuse when delving into it in the past.
The Love Actually star shared that he would consider a move into politics unlikely, even though he had been heavily criticized for venturing into it in the past.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said: ‘(Moving into politics) has crossed my mind. But what I really see up close is that it is almost impossible to do anything. It’s just impossible.’
He continued: ‘I’ve had a bit of that before… but this was really extreme, shocking and threatening to the family.
Hugh added that he might be put off going into politics because of the ripple effect it could have on the people around him.
Despite leaving presenter Jimmy horrified with his comments, he revealed they enjoyed a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh’s “witty” nature.
‘You have to bring a lot of people with you. My wife’s mother is a politician. She held a fairly high position in the Swedish Parliament.
“Every time the topic comes up, she just says, ‘Don’t do it.’ You have to water it all down. It’s all horse trading. And today the abuse that’s coming is unthinkable.”
This was in reference to his mother-in-law Susanne Eberstein, a former member of the Riksdag, which oversees Sweden’s legislature, from 1994 to 2019, and who was its first vice president between 2010 and 2014.
Hugh married Susanne’s daughter Anna in 2018.