After 4 a long time in Hollywood, Hugh Grant can’t resist getting in a dig or two about a few of his most beloved roles. Throughout a current look on The Late Late Present with James Corden, the 62-year-old actor declared, “I’d fortunately shred my IMDB web page” as a result of he “specialised in being unhealthy for many years, actually.”
Grant has supported that assertion on his Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves press tour, by no means lacking a chance to get grumpy about a few of his most well-known tasks—and the business typically.
Following his awkward Oscars interview with Ashley Graham, Grant criticized his co-star Drew Barrymore’s singing skills of their 2007 romantic comedy, Music and Lyrics. “Her singing is simply horrendous,” Grant laughed in a Wired video interview. “I’ve heard canine bark higher than she sings.” To be honest, he additionally slammed his personal vocal prowess, saying that although he wasn’t auto-tuned “as a lot” as Barrymore, she nonetheless wound up sounding “means higher” than he did.
For the report, Grant had much less harsh phrases for Barrymore on her speak present in 2021, “I like to hate the movies I’ve been in, and I do hate a few of them. However Music and Lyrics, it’s not possible to hate. We’re so good in it, and so charming.” Barrymore additionally defended Grant for maligning her singing this month, telling her speak present viewers: “If you already know Hugh, like, that’s his means of loving you.”
Elsewhere within the information cycle, Grant has spoken ailing about his well-known Love Truly dancing scene: “I dreaded that,” he instructed Leisure Tonight. He additionally mentioned he thought 4 Weddings and a Funeral was “an enormous turkey until the movie had its first previews” in an announcement to IndieWire; known as Notting Hill’s ending “nauseating” as a result of it reveals his character studying Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the e-book that might be tailored into director Roger Michell’s subsequent undertaking; and instructed an really sickening story from the set of Two Weeks Discover, the place he ingested 4 Coney Island scorching canine earlier than they “blew my ass out,” Grant mentioned on The Late Late Present.
In the identical late-night interview, Grant was requested which title he’d expunge from his résumé if given the prospect. “As you already know as somebody within the business, [it’s] one factor for me to say I used to be unhealthy, however I can’t convey down the remainder of the fantastic colleagues who work with me on any movie by saying it was unhealthy,” Grant started, earlier than doing simply that. He named 1988’s made-for-TV film, The Girl and the Highwayman. “I’m a highwayman. I’m meant to be attractive,” Grant defined, including, “Low-budget, unhealthy wig, unhealthy hat.”
On high of all that moviemaking thriller, Grant has additionally maligned the lack of a superb on-set romance, calling present movie units “so bizarre” whereas on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. “You realize, within the outdated days, by the tip of the second week, you have been all getting drunk within the night and having dinner and falling in love with one another and all that,” Grant instructed Colbert. “And all that stopped due to telephones. Actually, everybody goes house and appears at Twitter. It’s so unhappy.”
Pour one out for Hugh Grant—maybe probably the most curmudgeonly main man to ever have a meet-cute.
