- Title: FRANCE: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld buzzes into Cannes with Bee Movie
- Date: 24th May 2007
- Summary: JERRY SEINFELD IN BEE COSTUME ON TOP OF CARLTON HOTEL BEE MOVIE HOARDINGS ON TOP OF HOTEL VARIOUS OF JERRY SEINFELD JUMPING OFF HOTEL AND TRAVELLING DOWN WIRE TO END OF PIER SEINFELD IN BEE COSTUME JERRY SEINFELD AND CHRIS ROCK CAMERA CREWS
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- Location: France
- Country: France
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- Story Text: "Bee Movie" set Cannes buzzing when Seinfeld, the former star of U.S. television sitcom "Seinfeld," dressed in a bumble bee costume, strapped up to a harness, and rode a wire from the top of one hotel down to the beach dock. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld unveiled his latest project at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday (May 17) by flying in a bee costume from a Cannes hotel. Seinfeld leapt off the top of the Carlton Hotel and flew to the beach on a wire whilst joking that the stunt smacked of desperation.
The stunt was to promote new Dreamworks animated film "Bee Movie" which Seinfeld wrote. Seinfeld also provides the voice for the lead character in the movie.
"Bee Movie" charts the adventures of a bee that leaves his hive and sues food manufacturers for stealing honey.
Seinfeld has spent over three years on the project and is his first foray into film after his show 'Seinfeld' finished in 1998. He said he wrote a story about bees he found them amusing.
"I find them funny as a species. You know the big stripes and the fat little bodies and they work so hard, and the honey is the only, you know, except for like cows and milk, it's the only animal that makes something that everybody loves," he said.
"We have a close relationship with them, even though sometimes people are scared of them, everyone has honey and everyone eats honey and they don't know that we are taking it," he added about the off-beat plot.
The film also stars Chris Rock as a wise-cracking mosquito, who was also in Cannes to promote the film.
"I've been dying to get a good mosquito part. Scorcese sent me a script but it wasn't quite ready so I figured I'd do this one, I figured Jerry's was better," he quipped.
"Bee Movie" is set to land in U.S. theatres on November - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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