"I asked to redo it because I didn't think I was good the first time at all," she says. When Barry, Jerry's insect alter-ego, decides to sue the honey industry, there was only one judge Jerry wanted on the benchJudge Bumbleden, played by Oprah herself!Īlthough Oprah was the voice of Gussy, an animated goose in Charlotte's Web, she says she had a hard time playing Judge Bumbleden. "As cranky as I am, at the same time, I enjoy life," he says. "Caller ID and star-69 and caller ID blockremember there was a time like the phone would ring and somebody in the house would go, 'I'll get it.' I haven't heard that in 20 years," he says.Īlthough he likes to complain, Jerry says he has learned to appreciate life's little pleasures, like a good meal or his wife's brownies. In Jerry's world, cell phone users would also follow new rules. "They just go, 'I think I'll go elsewhere.' And they just leave you." "People go into BlackBerry comas," he jokes. Jerry's perplexed by people who check their BlackBerrys while they're in the middle of a conversation. "The BlackBerry, for example, is a fantastic device, but there are no rules." "I feel like sometimes these technologies kind of happen to us before we figure out, what are the rules of this thing?" he says. If Jerry had the chance, he says he'd like to impose a few new rules on humans. , 'What do the bees know or what do they have? Do they have cars or do they fly everywhere? Or do they walk?' You've got to make all that stuff up, and it was really fun." "When you make one of these movies, there are no laws. "We sat together in a room, and we just made up this universe," he says. Jerry asked three Seinfeld writers to help him create a bumblebee world, complete with rules like, "No buzzing after 6 p.m." "I had to fill in the movie because we already had the name." When the movie began to take off, Jerry says all he had was a title. I wonder if I could be funny in this kind of medium.' I started to get excited about it." "I thought, 'This is a new sandbox to play in. "The next thing I know, I'm on a plane out to DreamWorks in California, and Jeffrey Katzenberg is dazzling me with this unbelievable technology that they have," Jerry says. It was just a funny idea for a movie title."Īfter telling Steven his movie title idea Jerry says the Oscar-winning director looked at him and said, "That's a movie. I was performing in Nashville, and I had this thought that it would be funny to do a movie about bees called 'bee movie.' That was itit wasn't, 'I want to make this movie.' It was nothing. "There's a little lull and, I don't know, I had a thought the night before. "We're sitting at the dinner getting along very well, and as dinners can go when you're with new people, sometimes a conversation can stall," he says. Finally, after hours of anticipation, he and his wife, Jessica, left for the restaurant. Jerry says he sat in the same chair all day and waited for dinner time to roll around.
is like having a second bar mitzvah," he says. The day of the dinner, Jerry says he got very nervous. We live in the same neighborhood out in Long Island so he said, 'Why don't we have dinner?' So of course I said yes." "I asked him if he would do it, and he said no. "I had called Steven Spielberg to direct this thing I was doingI think it was a commercial for American Express," Jerry says. How did Jerry's labor of love come to "bee"? He says the idea for Bee Movie began to take shape during dinner with famed director Steven Spielberg. "You can take an 8-year-old or you can take a 78-year-old." "There's something in this movie for everybody," she says. Jerry was involved in writing every line, song lyric and scene in this film, which may be why it took him four years to complete! "I don't know if I'll ever do something like this again, so I wanted to really give it everything I had," he says. He also beefriends Vanessa, a Manhattan florist, while buzzing around town.Īs Barry's relationship with Vanessa blossoms, he makes a stinging discovery on a store shelfjars of "stolen" honey! Outraged, Barry decides to take on the honey industry and end the exploitation of beesonce and for all. Barry ventures out on his own and encounters some sticky situations. Benson, an ambitious bee who wonders what life is like beyond the hive.
Not only did Jerry write this moviehe also produced it and starred in it! Now, he's bringing his comedy to the big screen with his first animated film, Bee Movie. Jerry's hit television show, Seinfeld, made America laugh for nine seasons. Oprah's entire audience is buzzing about comedian Jerry Seinfeld's latest project!
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