Alex Edelman dishes on his "bad boy" role in 'Unfrosted' at the film's premiere. Plus, he speaks on Jerry Seinfeld's attention to detail when it comes to comedy.
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00:00How did your involvement in this movie come about did you know Jerry Pryor didn't really but he came to my show and then
00:05My agent was like do you want to audition for?
00:08Anything and I was like, yes, I will literally play anything in this movie and I am I'm in the movie, which is a delight
00:14It's a blink and you miss it scene and I'm wearing an apple head for most of the film, but I do get to assault
00:19Uh, I really get to be a bad boy gets a storm that I get to I don't want to spoil anything
00:24But I get to enact some violence
00:26So I'm really excited to do that and being on set where it was one of the most fun things my I've ever gotten to
00:31do I was on set for a couple of weeks and
00:34mostly watching and enjoying Hugh Grant's and like, you know, even the people in this in
00:40this movie who are there for like a second is
00:43Killer like Bill Byrd. I know did a small thing and Jack McBrayer did a small. I mean, I don't know how small
00:50Versus bigger smaller people's roles are but alley Wentworth like I don't she gets a huge laugh
00:54I don't even know she has this more than two lines
00:56but like it was so fun to be on set for it everyone was like constantly like biting the back of their hand, but like
01:02He's amazing and he gives and I have a cameo and he gives you direction like he you get direction for the cameos
01:08like
01:09Imagine how cool that is like, you know
01:11Like to get to be in a room with these folks like the most wonderful amazing fun thing
01:16Sorry to give you the Italian. This is Jewish. This is Italian chutzpah. Hey, it's a duty, you know, like it's very
01:24What is
01:26What are three words you would choose to describe Jerry Seinfeld as a director Jerry Seinfeld as a director
01:33Exacting
01:37His comedy forward, you know, that's two words and
01:41a generous like very generous
01:44He's always like laughing as a sweet man. He's really good as a funny man yourself
01:49What do you think makes Jerry so funny his attention to detail? He cares a lot about the details
01:53He knows that comedy is all in the details and he's the best best details comedian there is so he works really really hard in
02:00His jokes, he's very precise and we all benefit from it. You've been getting so much love on your special. What does that mean to you?
02:07Crazy, you know you make a thing and you put it out into the world and you just have no idea if anyone's gonna like
02:12it and so
02:14It's been the best thing that's ever happened to me and thank God
02:16The story at the center of it is propulsive enough to guess
02:19Key people watching in a short attention span world and I worked really hard on the joke
02:23so and it's got a lot of stuff I love in it, you know, like Jerry came and gave a note and
02:30Billy Crystal came and gave notes
02:32So like every all it has a bunch of all those comedians that I admire and respect in it and that's like the coolest thing
02:36In the world, that's amazing. Thank you so much. It was great talking to you