David Cross Says Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 Was Bad Experience

David Cross allegedly had a nutty experience before wrapping Alvin and the Chipmunks.

After starring as the chipmunks’ music manager Ian on the original 2007 movie and The Squeakquel in 2009, Cross said the production was “so awful” to him while filming 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 said on the April 17 episode of The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast, “and they were just so s–tty to me from the jump.”

The first major issue, the 62-year-old alleged, was that the team only gave him a couple weeks’ 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. 

“They were like, ‘If you’re not there, they will sue you,'” he said. “It was so crazy.”

“And it got worse from there. They were doing, like, s–tty things on purpose,” he added. “Gave me a s–tty trailer that was leaking, just stuff like that.”