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1 of 5 | Christian Slater (L) and Jerry Seinfeld prima successful "Unfrosted." Photo courtesy of Netflix
LOS ANGELES, April 30 (UPI) -- Christian Slater, Max Greenfield and Sarah Cooper said head Jerry Seinfeld instructed them to enactment much subtly successful Unfrosted, a fictional comedic look astatine nan creation of Kellogg's Pop-Tarts successful 1963. It premieres Friday connected Netflix.
Slater plays a milkman who represents nan dairy industry, which Unfrosted portrays arsenic a mafia pinch power complete nan cereal industry. With specified an outrageous premise, Slater said his first capacity was broader than Seinfeld wished.
"I for illustration to spell big," Slater, 54, told UPI successful a caller Zoom interview. "I would request to beryllium reigned in."
Seinfeld besides plays Kellogg's executive Bob Cabana successful nan film. Greenfield, 44, who plays an executive astatine rival Post Cereals, said he could show by nan look connected Seinfeld's look erstwhile nan head was not satisfied pinch a performance.
"I go, 'You don't request to opportunity anything. I cognize what this means,'" Greenfield said of Seinfeld's reactions.
Stand-up comedian Sarah Cooper, 46, plays fictional Kellogg's executive Poppy Northcutt. Cooper said Seinfeld would make a motion pinch his hands to bespeak she should trim her intensity, on pinch immoderate verbal instructions.
"The statement that I sewage was 'be much you' because sometimes I would conscionable beryllium excessively big," Cooper said. "There's specified a hit to nan measurement that nan Seinfeld drama works, and trying to find that hit was tough."
Cooper, who besides appeared connected an section of Survival of nan Thickest and successful nan movie Summering, said she hopes Unfrosted leads to much acting roles.
"I'm conscionable a babe successful this manufacture and this is specified an awesome measurement to start," Cooper said. "I don't moreover cognize wherever to spell from here."
Slater has been acting since he was a teen successful nan '80s, successful films for illustration The Legend of Billie Jean, Gleaming nan Cube and Heathers. Slater said he was dedicated to authenticity, truthful he drank full beverage successful each Unfrosted segment that required it -- and for each take.
"At nan extremity of nan scene, I'd already vanished nan full glass, truthful we'd person to spell backmost to nan beginning, refill my solid and spell again," Slater said.
Putting connected nan achromatic azygous he wears successful nan movie helped him get into character, Slater said.
"They put it successful my trailer and it fresh for illustration a glove, for illustration it was conscionable meant to be," her said.
In nan fictional communicative of Unfrosted, Post attempts to make their ain pastry. Amy Schumer plays Post executive Marjorie Merriweather Post, who was nan proprietor of General Foods successful existent life.
Greenfield plays Marjorie's subordinate, Rick Ludwin, a fictional character. Ludwin is named aft a important fig successful Seinfeld history, Greenfield said.
"He was an executive astatine NBC who championed Seinfeld," Greenfield said. "There's a type of that communicative wherever Seinfeld doesn't enactment connected nan aerial if it isn't for Rick Ludwin."
The 3 actors said Seinfeld created a jovial ambiance connected nan group of Unfrosted. The movie concludes pinch a montage of nan formed dancing, which nan trio said was encouraged erstwhile nan basal takes were recorded.
"After you were wrapped, you sewage to dance," Cooper said.
Slater recalled circumstantial instructions to displacement from acting to dancing.
"When you vanished your activity they said, 'OK, now here's nan dancing,'" he said.
