Hugh Grant has been playfully labeled a ‘pain in the ass to work with’ by his co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for Netflix film Unfrosted.
The 63-year-old Notting Hill star will play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic pop tart.
Speaking about the Jimmy Fallon movie, Jerry joked that Hugh was “terrible” to work with, adding that the actor himself warned him prior to filming that he would “hate” him.
Despite leaving host Jimmy stunned with his comments, he went on to reveal they enjoyed a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh’s ‘witty’ character.
In the film, Hugh stars in the upcoming film, called Unfrosted, as a struggling Shakespearean actor playing the Frosties character.
Hugh Grant has been playfully labeled a ‘pain in the ass to work with’ by his co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for Netflix film Unfrosted (pictured)
Jerry explained, “We had a lot of fights. He’s difficult to work with. He’s terrible.
“Before you work with him, he tells you, ‘You’re going to hate this.’ And he’s absolutely right.’
He continued, “We shot for ten weeks, and that night he and I had dinner – and we got drunk at dinner – that was the best night.
‘Cause he’s so cool, and he’s that English thing, you know, so witty. He looks good in a jacket… he’s one of those guys. I love those guys.’
Jerry added that he did not originally have Hugh in mind to play the role, but he insisted on auditioning for the role.
‘I wasn’t thinking of Hugh Grant for the role. (I imagined) a frustrated Shakespearean actor having to play this embarrassing character to make his car payments.”
“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, “Yes, for sure, you are Tony the Tiger, for sure.”
The Notting Hill star will play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic pop tart
Speaking about the Jimmy Fallon movie, Jerry joked that Hugh was “terrible” to work with, adding that the actor himself warned him prior to filming that he would “hate” him.
In an interview with Richard Eden of The Ny Breaking, Jerry further revealed that he and Hugh would “yell at each other on set.”
“You should have heard us yelling at each other on set,” Jerry said.
‘I said to him, ‘You don’t know anything about comedy. You just know how to be funny in a pub. Here in America we really need to be able to laugh.’
‘He shouted back, “I know a lot about comedy!”‘
Seinfeld explained that he wants every word written “just so,” adding, “Hugh Grant said, ‘Give me a chance to find it,’ and I said, ‘I already found it.’ Just do it like this. “
Hugh previously referred to himself as a ‘grumpy Englishman’, telling ELLE in 2009: ‘I’m grumpy. My mother had a theory about the English: they are both permanently substandard in gin and tonics. They need two gin and tonics to become human.’
Discussing his role as Oompa Loompa in last year’s colorful Wonka, he said: “It was like a crown of thorns… I couldn’t have hated the whole thing more.”
Hugh previously shared that he could be tempted to make a major career change, despite receiving ‘scary’ abuse when he looked into it in the past.
The Love Actually star shared that he would consider an unlikely move into politics, 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 actually get anything done. It’s just impossible.’
He continued: “I’ve had a bit of that before… but this was really extreme, shocking and threatening to your family.
Hugh added that he could be put off from entering politics by the knock-on effect it could have on those around him.
Despite leaving host Jimmy stunned with his comments, he went on to reveal they enjoyed a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh’s ‘witty’ character.
‘You have to take so many people with you. My wife’s mother is a politician. She was quite high up in the Swedish parliament.
“Every time the subject comes up, she just says, ‘Don’t do that.’ You have to water everything down. It’s all horse trading. And today the incoming abuse is unthinkable.”
This concerned his mother-in-law Susanne Eberstein, a former member of the Riksdag, who oversaw Sweden’s legislature from 1994 to 2019, and served as its first vice-president between 2010 and 2014.
Hugh married Susanne’s daughter Anna in 2018.
