By EVAN ROSEN | erosen@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is expressing his affinity for “real men,” revealing in a recent interview that he misses “dominant masculinity” and the established social hierarchy of the 1960s.
The 70-year-old comedian made some head-turning comments during his sit-down with Bari Weiss on Tuesday’s episode of The Free Press podcast, “Honestly.”
While talking about his childhood idols, Seinfeld named John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali and Sean Connery, among others.
“That’s a real man,” he told Weiss, jokingly adding that he never became one.
“But I miss a dominant masculinity,” he said. “Yeah, I get the toxic thing. … But still, I like a real man.”
Seinfeld also vaguely discussed the “agreed-upon hierarchy” that was present in society during his adolescence, explaining that he thinks the reason people today “drive in the crazy way that they drive” is because we have lost that hierarchy.
Weiss didn’t ask him to clarify exactly what kind of hierarchy he was referring to, though he did say it’s part of “what makes that moment [in time] attractive.”
The topic of the 1960s came up during their chat when Weiss asked about Seinfeld’s new Netflix movie “Unfrosted,” which is set in the same era.
Although the film has been slammed by critics and even called “one of decade’s worst movies” by The Chicago Sun-Times, Seinfeld seemed unfazed by the topic, fondly remembering the production.
He said he started the project during COVID because “I couldn’t take the sad faces … in comedy we can’t fix the world but we just want to make a face happy.”
