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Jerry Seinfeld got nostalgic in a recent interview and says he misses “dominant masculinity.”
During a meeting with Bari Weiss for The Free Press podcast HonestlySeinfeld recalled growing up and wanting to become “a real man,” joking that he never “made it.”
“I really thought when I was around that time, again, it was (John F. Kennedy), it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, you can go all the way. He’s a real man,” he said.
Seinfeld said he grew up admiring these characters, but as a comedian he didn’t become one because it’s a “childish pursuit.”
He continued: “But I miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I understand the toxic thing. Thanks thanks. But still, I love a real man.
The topic came up after Weiss discussed watching the Netflix movie of Seinfeld. Unfrostedwhich takes place in the 1960s.
“Just that period in the early ’60s…and obviously there were problems. (The) civil rights movement hadn’t started yet, like a million. But what was there then that I think isn’t now is the feeling of a single conversation. Like a common culture,” Weiss said.
Seinfeld said the key thing about that era was that there was “an agreed-upon hierarchy, which I think is absolutely vaporized right now.”
“I think that’s why people honk their horns and drive crazy, because we have no sense of hierarchy,” he added. “And as humans, we don’t really feel comfortable like that.”
Watch the Seinfeld interview in the video below.
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News Source : deadline.com
