{"id":2384659,"date":"2026-04-22T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2384659"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:22:23","slug":"david-cross-says-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-3-was-bad-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/david-cross-says-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-3-was-bad-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cross Says Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 Was Bad Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David Cross<\/strong><\/a> allegedly had a nutty experience before wrapping Alvin and the Chipmunks.<\/p>\n<p>After starring as the chipmunks&#8217; music manager Ian on the original 2007 movie and The Squeakquel in 2009, Cross said the production was &#8220;so awful&#8221; to him while filming the third installment, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only negative experience I had was on the third movie, which I was contractually obligated to do,&#8221; he said on the April 17 episode of The Daily Beast\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gy12yn4dCDw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Obsessed<\/a> podcast, &#8220;and they were just so s&#8211;tty to me from the jump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first major issue, the 62-year-old alleged, was that the team only gave him a couple weeks&#8217; notice that he would be in the third film, telling him around Christmastime that he needed to be in Hawaii by Jan. 3 to shoot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were like, &#8216;If you&#8217;re not there, they will sue you,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was so crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it got worse from there. They were doing, like, s&#8211;tty things on purpose,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Gave me a s&#8211;tty trailer that was leaking, just stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cross allegedly had a nutty experience before wrapping Alvin and the Chipmunks. After starring as the chipmunks&#8217; music manager Ian on the original 2007 movie and The Squeakquel in 2009, Cross said the production was &#8220;so awful&#8221; to him while filming the third installment, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011).\u00a0 &#8220;The only negative experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/David-Cross-Says-Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks-3-Was-Bad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384661,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384659\/revisions\/2384661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}