David Cross reportedly had a challenging experience before completing Alvin and the Chipmunks.
After playing the chipmunks’ music manager Ian in the original 2007 film and The Squeakquel in 2009, Cross described the production as “so awful” during the filming of the third installment, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011).
“The only negative experience I had was on the third movie, which I was contractually obligated to do,” he stated on the April 17 episode of The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast, “and they were just so difficult to me from the start.”
The first major issue, according to the 62-year-old, was that the team only provided him with a couple of weeks’ notice about his participation in the third film, informing him around Christmas that he needed to be in Hawaii by January 3 to shoot.
“They were like, ‘If you’re not there, they will sue you,'” he recounted. “It was so crazy.”
“And it got worse from there. They were doing, like, unpleasant things on purpose,” he added. “Gave me a poor-quality trailer that was leaking, just stuff like that.”
