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Jerry Seinfeld Almost Offered Daniel Day-Lewis a Role in His Pop Tart Comedy ‘Unfrosted’

Seinfeld said he wanted the esteemed British actor to play sugar drug lord El Sucre in the Netflix comedy that also counts as the comedian's film directorial debut.

The comedian said on Tuesday he wanted to cast Daniel Day-Lewis as a sugar drug lord in his Netflix Pop-Tart comedy Unfrosted. Unfrosted co-writer Spike Feresten previously mentioned the Day-Lewis dream to ScreenRant, saying, “We would watch There Will Be Blood, and that end scene, where they’re beating each other up with bowling pins, all that’s happening there is that they just ran out of money and the director came in that day and said, ‘Look, just do something. The story follows a race between breakfast rivals Kellogg’s and Post to create a pastry for the masses in 1963 and stars an ensemble of A-list comedians including Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan and Amy Schumer.

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