![]() It always cracked me up the way their job duties are so specific. ![]() "The real initial thing was these documentaries that you see on TV about animals, and they focus on one animal for that show, and I always loved the bee one. "Why did I start with this? What was the initial thing?" Seinfeld says, asking the questions he gets asked most often (after the inevitable Seinfeld reunion queries). We can sympathize: did anyone ever bug Walt Disney about his obsession with mice and ducks? He had a lot of explaining to do, though, to people who didn't get his fascination with bees. He'd never done an animated film before, an odd thing when you consider how distinctive his voice is, and how much the idea appealed to him. I wouldn't ever leave that."īee Movie doesn't seem like much of a risk, but for Seinfeld it was. And I think the audience likes to see you take a chance with different things. To me, when I see people going back to the same kind of thing all the time, I feel like they're afraid to try something new. I'm very careful about not doing things that seem fearful. "I think we did that thing pretty well and I couldn't see the point in trying to make it something else. "No, no one ever offered me a Seinfeld movie. He settled down, got married and had three kids, spurning all offers to go Hollywood and make movies – none of which included a Seinfeld movie, he insists. It seemed at the time as if he'd decided to retire, apart from keeping his comedy chops up with occasional stand-up gigs. But Seinfeld has been largely out of the public eye for the better part of a decade since his series ended by his own volition, when he decided it had run its course. That would be Seinfeld, the hit television show "about nothing" that ran for nine seasons from 1989-98 and which made Seinfeld, 53, very famous and extremely wealthy. When it's suggested to Seinfeld that the story sounds just a wee bit fanciful, even for a comic of his stature, he fixes his interviewer with a disapproving look and dryly comments: "I don't know if you've seen my show. Spielberg was reportedly so taken with the idea – guess he just doesn't hear that many pitches in Hollywood – that he picked up his cellphone and called his DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg to start the hive humming. But Seinfeld has only himself to blame, since he's the one who started it all.ĭepending on which version of the story is being told – it seems to change from interview to interview – Seinfeld was either at dinner or at a party or just hanging out in the Hamptons with Steven Spielberg when he happened to make a pun about making a "B" movie that was actually about bees. Imagine how tired of "buzz" he must be now, with Bee Movie finally opening today. ![]() As he speaks, looking casually sharp in blue suit and tieless pink shirt, the movie's opening is still weeks away. He's saying this late in September, on a quick trip to Toronto to promote the flick he's been working on like, um, a bee for the past four years. "I'm a little tired of `buzz.' Do you think the movie's got good `buzz'? I think I've heard that enough." "Buzz!" he says, in his familiar Noo Yawk squawk. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but Jerry Seinfeld is weary of a certain word regarding Bee Movie, his animated film debut.
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