Jerry Seinfeld has good advice from someone in public relations.
He flew 3,000 miles back from Los Angeles to New York yesterday so he could appear on “Saturday Night Live.”
Seinfeld, who is generally beloved, has been putting his foot in his mouth lately after doing too much press for his movie, “Unfrosted.” It used to be you rarely saw Seinfeld in the media. But for the last two weeks it’s been impossible to get away from him.
On Thursday night he was on stage at Netflix is a Joke in Los Angeles, still promoting the movie — which has very negative reviews that come mostly as a reaction to his comments about the movie business, I think.
Last night he popped up on “Weekend Update” trying to defuse the situation. This was fine, but now it’s time to take a break. He also owes Hugh Grant an apology for constantly saying he was hard to work with. (What was that all about?)
What did Jerry say that caused all of this trouble? In an interview with GQ about the movie biz:
“It was totally new to me. I thought I had done some cool stuff, but it was nothing like the way these people work. They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea.”
Doubling down, he continued: “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”
