Hugh Grant is branded 'a pain in the a*s to work with' by co-star Jerry Seinfeld as he details their boozy dinner after working on Netflix film
Hugh Grant has been playfully branded a 'a pain in the a*s to work with' by his co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for the Netflix film Unfrosted.
The Notting Hill star, 63, is set to play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic pop tart.
Speaking about the film on Jimmy Fallon, Jerry quipped that Hugh was 'horrible' to work with, adding the actor himself had warned him ahead of filming that he was going to 'hate' him.
Despite leaving host Jimmy aghast with his comments, he went onto reveal that they did enjoy a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh's 'witty' nature.
In the film, Hugh stars in the upcoming flick, called Unfrosted, as a struggling Shakespearean actor who plays the Frosties character.
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Hugh Grant has been playfully branded a 'a pain in the a*s to work with' by his co-star Jerry Seinfeld after the pair joined forces for the Netflix film Unfrosted (pictured)
Jerry explained: 'We had lots of fights. He's a pain in the a** to work with. He's horrible.
'He tells you before you work with him: ''You're gonna hate this.'' And he's so right.'
He went onto add: 'We shot for 10 weeks, and that night that he and I had dinner – and we got drunk having dinner – that was the greatest night.
'Because he's so cool, and he's that English thing, you know, that witty. He looks good in a jacket … he's one of those guys. I love those guys.'
Jerry added that he didn't originally have Hugh in mind to play the part, but he insisted on auditioning for the role.
'I did not think of Hugh Grant for the part. [I imagined] a frustrated Shakespearean actor who has to play this embarrassing character to make his car payments.'
'But he called us and he said: 'I want to be in the Pop-Tart movie.' So I got the script and auditioned on my phone.
'So he did an audition on his phone – with a glass of wine in the other hand, by the way. Like I care what the audition was. I go: ''Yeah, sure, you're Tony the Tiger, sure.''
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The Notting Hill star is set to play Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in the upcoming comedy, which tells the origin story of the iconic pop tart
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Speaking about the film on Jimmy Fallon, Jerry quipped that Hugh was 'horrible' to work with, adding the actor himself had warned him ahead of filming that he was going to 'hate' him
In an interview with The Daily Mail's Richard Eden, Jerry went onto reveal that he and Hugh would 'scream at each other on set.'
'You should have heard us screaming at each other on set,' Jerry said.
'I was saying to him: "You don't know anything about comedy. You just know how to be witty in a pub. Here in America, we've got to get real laughs."
'He'd scream back: "I know a lot about comedy!"'
Seinfeld explained he wants every word 'exactly as written', adding: 'Hugh Grant would say, "Give me a chance to find it," and I'd say, "I've already found it. Just do it like this."
Hugh has previously branded himself a 'grumpy Englishman,' telling ELLE in 2009: 'I'm grumpy. My mother had a theory about Englishmen: They are permanently all two gin and tonics under par. They need two gin and tonics to become human.'
Discussing his role as an Oompa Loompa in the colourful Wonka last year, he said: 'It was like a crown of thorns ... I couldn't have hated the whole thing more.'
Hugh previously shared that could be tempted into a shock career change despite receiving 'terrifying' abuse when delving into it in the past.
The Love Actually star shared that he would consider an improbable switch into politics, even though he had been heavily criticised for venturing into that in the past.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said: '[Switching into politics] has crossed my mind. But what I really see close up is that it's almost impossible to actually get anything done. It's just impossible.'
He continued: 'I've had a bit of it before...but this was really extreme and shocking and threatening to one's family.
Hugh added that he could potentially be put off the move into politics by the knock-on effect it could have on people around him.
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Despite leaving host Jimmy aghast with his comments, he went onto reveal that they did enjoy a boozy dinner together, before praising Hugh's 'witty' nature
'You've got to bring so many people with you. My wife's mother is a politician. She was quite senior in the Swedish Parliament.
'Whenever the subject comes up, she just says, ''Don't. You have to water down everything. It's all horse trading. And nowadays the incoming abuse is unthinkable.'''
This was in reference to his mother-in-law Susanne Eberstein, a former member of the Riksdag, which oversees the legislature of Sweden, from 1994 to 2019 - serving as its First Deputy Speaker between 2010 and 2014.
Hugh married Susanne's daughter, Anna, in 2018.