Jerry Seinfeld says ‘horrible’ Hugh Grant was a ‘pain in the ass’ on ‘Unfrosted’ set

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Jerry Seinfeld found Hugh Grant to be a “pain in the ass” during the filming of the upcoming movie “Unfrosted.”“We had lots of fights.

He’s a pain in the ass to work with. He’s horrible,” Seinfeld, 69, said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday. “He tells you before you work with him, ‘You’re gonna hate this.’ And he’s so right,” the actor continued.Grant plays Thurl Ravenscroft, who voiced the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes icon Tony the Tiger.

The Seinfeld-directed Netflix film about the origin of Pop-Tarts will debut in May. Grant, 63, is part of the ensemble cast alongside Melissa McCarthy, Dan Levy, Fred Armisen and James Marsden.Despite their quarrels, Seinfeld and Grant set their differences aside after going out to dinner.“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,” Seinfeld recalled to a shocked Fallon. “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.”On how he managed to secure the “Regime” star for the film, Seinfeld revealed that Grant actually requested an audition.“I did not think of Hugh Grant for the part,” Seinfeld said. “[I imagined] a frustrated Shakespearean actor who has to play this embarrassing character to make his car payments” to make the part work for the Golden Globe winner, he added.“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,” joked the actor. “Like I care what the audition was,” he teased. “I go, ‘Yeah, sure, you’re.