Hugh Grant Is the Worst Person to Interview and It’s Hilarious!

If you only know Hugh Grant as the charming leading man, prepare to see a very different side of him. With his brutal honesty, razor-sharp timing and complete lack of enthusiasm, Hugh can turn almost any conversation into comedy. Here he is at his absolute funniest. I'm the counter Paddington. He finds the good in people and I find the bad. I've already found the bad in you, to be honest. Ouch! After I brought you that! I'm hurt. His friend came up to sort of try and protect him and I was feeling very manly and I said, do you want some? And to my horror, he said, yeah, I do. He was gigantic. So I immediately chickened out and said, well, let's all calm down here, you know. So how difficult was it breaking up with Liz? Was that difficult? You stood that in from nowhere. You came to see me backstage and we discussed a few topics we might talk about. That never came up, but OK, it's up now. Judas. Hugh never made life easy for his agents and decades later, he's still gleefully revealing why. And judging by his stories, negotiating film deals was probably the easy part, especially when their biggest client got himself arrested. I remember calling my agent and saying, I think there's been a mistake because you sent me a good script. Not only was I terrible in the film, but I then chose to get arrested here in Hollywood a week before Good Mood came out. I remember the night of the event, calling my agent, a very, very nice guy, a very good agent, a very powerful agent here, but who never says anything negative about anything. Everything's great. And I said, hi Richard, I've just been arrested with this hooker. Is that bad? And he said, oh, that's not great. In real life, didn't you pretend to be your own agent? I did. I've never been very good with being agented or with agents, and I fired them left, right and centre. I fired one poor man who was a brilliant agent just because I saw his anus. His shower broke down, he wanted to borrow my bath in my suite, and I said, all right, and I forgot he was in there. And I walked in and he was on all fours washing. Who washes like that? What kind of such a thing? Anyway, the view was awful. Grant is perfectly capable of keeping his temper, provided nobody puts him in traffic. Behind the wheel, his usual grumpiness apparently becomes full-scale road rage, and he's remarkably honest about how ridiculous it can get. The man, I stopped for petrol somewhere in Long Island, and the guy who I was paying said, you know what, you look like that Hugh Grant. No offence. None taken? A lot taken. Had bumped into my car. He hadn't, actually. And I attacked his car, not him, and ripped the windscreen wipers right off his car, and as soon as they were in my hand, I thought, what in God's name have I done? And I'm so sorry, and drove him to the garage to have them replaced. Yeah, I was on my way to my wedding with my wife, I was very late, and trying to cross the road in Sloane Square in London, and a man falls off his bike in front of us, idiot. So I, oh Christ, tried to pick him up, and along comes Guy Ritchie, who I know a bit, because I did Man From U.N.C.L.E. with him, and he said, sorry Hugh, it's my assistant, he's always falling off his bike. Get up, get up! There is almost no distance between what Hugh thinks and what he says. With comebacks this fast, nobody around him is safe, and, as always, he delivers it as though he hasn't said anything funny. Do you keep in touch with people, presumably from the sound of things you have with her? Say that again, but clearer. Slower. Slower is the key with you. You know what, I'm so thrilled you came on the show. Will you come back? And don't just say no to get a cheap laugh now. I was just about to. I know you were. I could read your mind. But would you come back? No. The first day I worked with you, I forgot my lines. I loved that. You're a genius. I don't know how you do it. You put the most uptight people relaxed, but it is very tough. But you are all relaxed. You're nice. I'm really uptight still. It was the person standing opposite me in the rain. Is it still raining? If Hugh Grant has any Christmas spirit, he hides it exceptionally well. Father Christmas irritates him, while the elf on the shelf seems to offend him quite a bit as well. The whole Santa Claus thing, what's that? It's terrifying the idea of some old pervert coming down the chimney into a kid's room. I used to beg my dad to lend me his shotgun so I could shoot the bastard. Done all your Christmas shopping? I love Christmas. I bet you do. I'm that kind of guy. I can tell. Crimbo. Gets me excited thinking about it. Done all my present shopping already. Before I came here this morning, I put up some more decorations. He doesn't know what elf on the shelf is. I've seen that little green man. One of my boys has one of them. You're meant to move him around, are you? They move. You don't move them. Sometimes they move. In the middle of the night. That's brilliant. I can't wait to tell my children who've literally never slept in four years now that the little green thing moves at night. That's brilliant idea. Fantastic. Most guests arrived on Ellen full of compliments and carefully rehearsed stories. But Hugh is not like any other guest. He always carries his brutal honesty with him. He delivers it so politely that it caught Ellen totally by surprise. I think we did meet. I think you gave me an award. I've only won one. It was tiny. It was about as big as that flower. And it was for being nice to the press. Incredible when you think how times have changed. Yeah. I'm just a huge fan. I think that you're fantastic and funny and smart and all those things. I wish I thought that about you. No, I so do. I so do. You know these magazine covers which they're everywhere and for some reason in every single one I look like Ellen DeGeneres. But I just, you know it would be nice to look different from her. Hugh once went on holiday with Jason Statham only to discover that even the animals preferred Jason. At the zoo they completely ignored Hugh and flocked to Statham. You're allowed to stroke the dolphins. My family was allowed to stroke the dolphins first. The dolphins were quite nice to us. And then Jason Statham bends over the dolphins and they go mad. It was like this. They were up on their tails. They were doing backflips. And I was a little hurt that the dolphins preferred. After dinner you go to a ceramic theatre and everyone sings together. And on the first night you think these people are freaks. This is a cult. This is ghastly. But by the third night you know, you're singing. Hands up give me hands up we just love you. I liked it. Hugh Grant has spent decades winning over millions of viewers but his own children won't even watch him. And beneath the jokes the rejection clearly stings. I make my children watch one of my films every evening and laugh at the jokes. If they don't they don't get fed. Yes. It's a good rule. They don't I think they think that everyone's daddy is on the side of buses. You know, they don't It's surprising that everyone was right all these years saying Hugh why don't you have some children you know it really changes your life and you're thinking oh shut up and now that I have I have to say it is quite life changing I recommend it. Yeah. Get some. Okay. Lots of people hate me. My son hates me. Yeah, he came to see Paddington 2 the other day and all he said throughout the whole film is why is daddy in it so much? What do your kids think of dad being an oompa loompa? I think shame really Other kids have international human rights lawyers Their dad is an oompa loompa Exactly Auditions are already uncomfortable enough One of Hugh's became particularly disastrous when he was asked to perform in an American accent an experience he remembers less as an audition and more as a public humiliation Well, it was only slightly heavy in that I don't do that many films but it was such a good script and I love Mark and yes I thought I could be good and you were Did they offer you a lot of money? I got about halfway through the first page and I just saw him out of the corner of my eye stand up and then he started to go oh my god and then was sicker than any man I've ever seen in my life It was like a cat being sick Did you get the job? Oh yeah I got the job But I slept with him Now can you do an American accent? Not after my one experience doing it I did it for a TV thing and for some reason it came out incredibly low and incredibly slow Hugh's leading ladies know better than anyone that the charm comes with conditions Put him beside a former co-star and the polished movie star act quickly gives way to teasing and exactly the kind of honesty publicists dread Like I don't have a subtle bone in my body Do you think I disagree profoundly Yes My inner voice tells me the opposite Right Nicole Yes Where did we first meet? Ever Can you remember that? To me it's very special To you clearly No I seem to be having a slightly more English accent now that I'm talking to you Shall I go a bit Aussie? Don't you notice that I've suddenly started talking Yes you have He's a private investigator actually I find him strangely attractive I quite like a dodgy bloke You wouldn't find him attractive You sound like a bloke that could flog me a toaster off the back of a van or something like that I quite like that Bit dodgy I walked in and I ran into you and instead of saying hello I grabbed you by the collar and I fully started kissing you Yes I remember that The quickest way to understand Hugh Grant might be to hear him talk about his parents Even his family memories somehow come with a punchline and listening to him you begin to see exactly where that famously dry outlook began Were your parents supportive? Not at all No Mungo is one of your middle names Yes Okay Hugh Mungo Were you a giant baby? How did this happen? It's actually Hugh John Mungo Okay I don't know how it happened I had very unkind parents Well they're hopeless at that I mean they're just not of that world Dad is the one who famously tried to give Julia Roberts his coat at the premiere of Nothing Hell You know you can't get worse or more embarrassing than that Christian philanthropist rather proper and the cat would say ******* fever you bitch Sometimes we'd say mum you said that She'd say no darling I promise you I have no control Richard Curtis helped turn Hugh into one of the world's biggest romantic comedy stars Grant has spent the years since repaying him with complaints insults and public humiliation Somehow that appears to be their love language I wasn't expecting the fact that he would actually try and direct me I don't like to be directed I just like praise and flattery and he actually tried to improve me and make me do different things I didn't care for that at all Yeah how dare you I have apologised The only person who didn't want me and in fact took such a instant and violent dislike to me that he did everything in his power to stop me getting the part was the writer and it is this arsehole who we are going to honour tonight because there I would be in one of the lulls in my career because of some flop or some arrest or whatever and I'd be frankly desperate for Richard's next film and I'd be told I'm sorry he's away for a year in Africa saving starving children I found that annoying and frankly selfish Hugh can remember an old grievance for decades but names and details are another matter when his memory deserts him in an interview he doesn't even flinch and you have Sandra Bullock as a degree of separation yes how's she doing she's lovely I haven't seen her for ages but my children love her what's the little yellow people the minions and she's the baddie let's call it no something man what was it what he was doing what gangman I invented gangman style in music and learning what can we tell our audiences without spoiling it for them about the elusive Waverly especially those who are not familiar with the 60s TVC yeah well he's their boss I'm trying to remember Hugh Hugh doesn't hide his most embarrassing moments he saves them for interviews and the worse he looks in the story the funnier he makes it nothing is too awkward once he knows it will get a laugh one by one these kids went up the ladder and they learned to swing beautifully and they get caught and then they fall gracefully into a net and it was my turn I get up the ladder and totally freaked out I couldn't handle the height at all I couldn't even be helped across onto the platform and in the end I had to be brought down by one of the acrobats over his shoulder like a piece of paper this was bad he said what about that watch you're wearing madam and I said no no no I got that ages ago in France that's fine in France sir did you did you no not of charged with smuggling and it was weird because the people give me a party every year and at each one They introduce me to another person who did something terrible to me. It's just strange. They say oh Hugh I don't think you've met Bill. He burgled your flat in 1996 And you go. Oh, hi. Hi. Well, have a drink. I think you know where everything is He is one of the few people who can turn being annoyed into a genuine talent very little escapes his irritation And he's never shy about explaining why nonetheless he is entertaining Especially when complaining if I'm making a text message, which you heard I love to do and I have to wait You know, sometimes there's three Letters on the same button and you press it then you have to wait I'm almost in in despair with rage at having to wait there's Second and a half Yeah There's a very nice elderly person in front of me in the queue at the post office I Want to throw them bodily to the floor And that can't be healthy so listen, I'm very unhappy about how good you are in The lobster so the rumors I've heard about you are true. Yeah, we're a fan of Shade and Proud. That's exactly right I don't like anyone have any having any success Very good It's a brilliant film. I I don't like working with very good actors because they show me up and I was Aware that he'd won bloody Oscars and things. Yeah, I was not very happy about it. No And what do you think about when you're gonna work with Hugh Grant? well, what you probably don't know about you is how Jolly have a character Hugh seems to be always looking for the laugh give him the most ordinary question and within seconds the conversation has gone somewhere Nobody expected like this time when he was asked about his health make a big fuss about health go to see the doctor a lot Hell of a lot. Yeah, there was one who asked me to stop coming off to bed I've had very very bad luck with doctors I had I had one I used to go and I say I've got a terrible throat and you go. Oh, so have I What I had except worse Let's get secrets out of the way first here because you're the last one you haven't been given yours yet. Here you go Thank you very much. Let's open this up and see if you like this. Could you do it for me? I haven't really unwrapped my own present. I Don't want to hear you. We gifted that to someone. I want to hear that you've used that and you've enjoyed it. Okay. Yeah Yeah, no, definitely sir Enchanted by everything French and It doesn't matter what it is. I I just love it They say would you the butcher says to me you want the tip to vote, you know the head of the cow? Oh, we we do see Do you want the deep which is the Intestines. Yes. Yes. I'll have that fame offers absolutely no protection from Grant from Meryl Streep to Timothee Chalamet Nobody is too respected too young or too successful to become the punchline In fact, the bigger the star the more tempting the target Oh, do you think would your agents have ever sent you an oompa-loompa role to even consider with that? Have you been crossed your path? Oh Yes, I think so. They they know that I'm into the freak show stage of my career now It's all I can get Where is a Timothee Chalamet rank on that list? I'm assuming this is not part of the show. That's gonna be broadcast. I'll tell you the truth To be honest, I didn't like it and None of us did which is very short-sighted But chooses she's not wearing glasses in this film character thing And she doesn't like to wear lenses because the camera can pick them up So actually even if you were Meryl Streep and I was Hugh Grant, I could be Denzel Washington Did you guys ever know each other before this movie no, I'm not on it either we had no scenes together So we've really just met With Hugh affection often sounds very similar to disrespect the words can be brutal, but the intention rarely is It's simply his way of keeping sincerity at a safe distance. I'm thinking of going to Dignitas in Switzerland and having myself We should have a joint party, why don't we have a big party together? We have no mutual friends You gave an interview to Elle magazine and they asked you about your various leading ladies Do you remember some of the things you said about them? I think it was regrettable He basically is Paddington in a human costume and he brings all that niceness and He actually likes people What a perv I? Should just point out that if I don't win I get very nasty He is remarkably honest about his vices some he happily blames on his friends This doesn't change the fact that he loves to party. What was it hard giving up the butts? the cigarettes But Oh, but he's wearing patches, you know, you're supposed to wear a nicotine patch Yeah, and you're meant to wear three then two then one right? She's still on 20 patches Got them all up and down. Yeah everywhere I was very drunk And I was on my way, yeah more than that you were embarrassing, okay His reputation as a ladies man is no secret least of all to Hugh He's happy to admit it and whenever he tries to play it down another celebrity seems ready to correct the record He was so grumpy He knew me he'd known me for years. There's nothing there for him. He knew that I was gonna Fact I did let you down. I was grumpy fat Same question that I put to Matthew. Have you ever taken anything from a movie just as a memento a keepsake at all? Yeah, I took home an extra once She was furious Um Well, I love cheerleaders very much I Can't think of a leading lady. I haven't fancied. I think you gotta fancy them. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, it's no fun What's the point of doing the film? Already gonna get a football team together He may complain about almost everything but his children bring out a slightly different side of him the sarcasm never disappears though Neither does the affection he tries so hard to hide Yeah, I mean there's a lot to dread because it's I'm old and it's noisy and it's unbearable And I do a lot of hiding in the loo I do a lot of sleeping and that's every parent. Yeah, is it? Yes. I'm like in the bathroom. There's a lock There's a lot but they pretty much broken it now I can't get them interested in any of my stuff. I chain them to chairs and try and show them They've got shocking taste They want to watch fireman Sam for Christ's sake But it's a very nice surprise Yes, and is it in fact the baby's name in Chinese because the mother is Chinese means happy surprise, really? Yes, and what is the baby? How she how she yes, that's the baby's name. It's one of the babies And and and do you have to say it like that? You have to you have to be that surprised? Yes, I find it helps. Well, at least they could if they wanted to I mean they might want to but mine don't even want to watch me Sitting there watching Dino trucks. I said no Oprah once turned Hughes famous leading ladies into what should have been a harmless little game Hugh immediately looked as though he'd been ambushed into giving evidence his reluctance only made every answer funnier Oh, I don't know. I'm getting very awkward We're seeing you all in all the magazines, I know that that's not you're doing but anyway, how are you feeling about this relationship? Oh God, um, I really want to Shut you up Give me one word to describe the following leading ladies Sandra Bullock. Oh What a horrible game Sandy is Billy Emma Thompson Very very nice a bloke for all intents and purposes actually a very bloke ish sense of humor, but like it like a guy Okay, she is a man I can Nobody cuts Hugh Grant down faster than Hugh Grant himself like many British stars He treats compliments with suspicion and turns his own flaws into the joke even with all his success He rarely escapes without criticism. Okay, you look like you lost weight. You look like you're ready to go You look like you're in shape. Have you been doing something? Are you working out? What's going on? What? You know what? I mean? You look trim. Thank you. Are you chatting me up a little bit? Some souls never get better like mine. In fact in some ways they get worse I'm horrified at how thin and fit you are. Now. I was rejoicing in the fact that Colin Farrell had got fat and You're not I'm not you obviously did a Bridget Jones inside I might be I Think I think you're gonna be in my infinite masochism and Miserable ism. I scour the internet for negatives. You do. Yeah, I look through rotten tomatoes for the Green splats you don't yeah, I do. Yeah, then when I read them, I'm yeah, that's right His parents left him with no shortage of stories some explain the man He became others make him even harder to explain either way life in the Grant household was clearly never dull I said no. No, it's not up your alley You wouldn't like it, you know really and he said no nonsense I've got a television upstairs if you show me how to work it or watch it together so I then had to sit there with my old dad and You know watch this thing where I bring Vaseline into the room Poor old Paddington It was at that point that my father said well, I think I might go to bed now As I imagine being British I imagine as a certain There was talk at the dinner table about the sort of the way Americans do about sex and education, I mean Oh, maybe not Never really the main topic of conversation My mother was a churchgoing teacher she wanted me to be the Archbishop of Canterbury To be honest, I haven't given up Most stars spend interviews avoiding the wrong answer Hugh seems determined to locate it the subjects others politely Sidestep are often the very ones he discusses most openly It's not a romantic comedy really they've built it as a romantic comedy to try and sell tickets, but actually it just What way do you like to be spoiled oh anyway, I can get like more cappuccinos or And you never know with chemistry anyway now, you know sometimes you think oh we get on so well This must look great on camera. Yeah, and actually it just goes flat and other times you frankly loathe each other and it sparkles Yeah, well sometimes hate comes over as love Hollywood has an unwritten rule every co-star was wonderful Hugh has never shown much interest in that rule ask about someone he's worked with and the interview becomes their performance review Why you work together as if you you know, you've been doing this for years and years in this Yes, it's strange. It's strange because he has an interesting, you know, all actors I think have a sort of thing They fall back on I you know Blink my eyes a bit too much and other people, you know do make funny noises in their throat and stuff and his kind of tick as an actor is to hit the nearest English person and Drew Barrymore, she made the mistake of giving me notes, which how would you take that? Paddington bear is voiced by Ben Whishaw who I'm also working with at the moment in a thing about Jeremy Thorpe He's playing Norman Scott my lover. So I've spent all year trying to either kill in prison or As actors, you mean yeah, or as people I was surprised by how cool Charlie's a natural natural cool. I don't know whether that's you or Pharmaceuticals He's cool. He's laid-back And I'm not at all and wound up like a whippet Politicians hold a special place on grants very long list of irritations unlike traffic or Christmas This is one subject where the annoyance feels entirely serious the jokes remain but they have much sharper teeth Which is a nice thing to watch about politics right now. Well, yeah, that's right. That's right, but they are freaks. I mean I Who would go into that job, you know, I paid very much and really that old thing is true It is show business for the ugly Narcissistic egomaniacal sociopathic and with absolutely Very very rarely any interest in the country or its welfare makes it a very English scandal Why is it so very English? Well, I think partly because this murder plot instigated by my character was so amateurish You know if it was done by an American, they'd have just killed a guy but this was hopeless. This was junior varsity Yeah, it took weeks and they got they missed the guy and got the dog instead and it was just amateur time Then there was Robin Williams the rare co-star Unpredictable enough to keep even Hugh Grant on his toes Hugh immediately noticed one thing and couldn't get it out of his head now working with Robin I don't did you know Robin Williams prior to this? Well, obviously I knew he was right No, I'd never met him. I'd never met him. No, that was and he's a very nice chap. They very hairy I was that was the first thing that surprised The first thing I noticed they said here's Robin Williams and you know, I took a step back Very supportive and very fun too funny for me. I like you know, that was the thing I thought I was doing fine in this film and then he comes on to do his few weeks and You know by end of the first day you want to put your wrist because he's he once tried to escape romantic comedies by making A thriller unfortunately audiences escaped to leaving his grand reinvention largely unseen. Well, no, I mean, that's what we tried to do I've been trying to do it for years in fight scenes Which makes me sound as though I do a lot of fight scenes, which we all know is bollocks, but I Suddenly there were agents saying, you know, hey, baby, we can make you a star and I thought well, okay That would be amusing for a year and then I'll go on and do my other career and here I am You know god knows 18 years later. So oh, well, that's enough romantic comedies. I'll show everyone I can do a thriller Yeah, so we made a thriller and 14 people worldwide went to see it I got a letter with a script saying we were making Paddington 2 and this is part of a extremely self-obsessed famous actor now fallen on hard times His greatest struggle with acting was never the camera on set it was the cameras waiting outside The paparazzi turned fame into something he deeply resented and even after all these years that anger has never really left him But I never liked him round my house It felt like that was my bubble and especially if there were girlfriends with their children around I did once lose my temper Twice lost my temper very badly twice got arrested But I shied at that fence Don't know why I was frightened of him. Come on told me he was a paparazzo They've never really been my cup of tea so Had a choreographer brilliant choreographer and we used to have these sessions in a big studio in downtown, New York And he'd stand there and he'd say okay you so I'm just gonna play the music really loud And I want you to just express yourself and he put the music on and half an hour later I'd still be standing there stock still there's I had no self to express there isn't there's literally there's no dance in me How to make me look in my mid-twenties and They failed dismally It was a very expensive team of makeup and hair people and costume people and they managed to reduce me from 46 to 45 I'd say and you see you've seen the film you see a bunch of you know mid-twenties musicians and then this tragic middle-aged Parisian prostitute wearing too much rouge and A lot of semi-visible lifting tape on my face most inexperienced fishermen catch nothing Grant somehow caught a swan instead because apparently even his Quiet hobbies must end in disaster. My brother was an excellent fisherman. Yeah, and I never caught anything except a swan. I Think might be illegal. It was awful. I was so pleased to get something. I reeled it in anyway, I played it Therapeutic I have deep reservoirs of Actually narcissism and neurosis and anger and hatred of others to Yeah, well I was lucky enough to get salmonella in Sweden I Was poisoned by the local poisoner Some feel I lost a ton of weight was perfect because he was he was a sort of quite emaciated figure while filming in India he stepped into a taxi and discovered that his driver appeared far too young to be behind the wheel It became one of the strangest journeys of his career working with children I know you've worked with children a lot of times. Is that something that you look forward? I'm marvelous with anyone. I work Children actors fine. I've done a lot of that. I draw the line at children crew. Oh, yeah Yes, my name is B. Sue. I'm your driver for the whole film and I said, oh, can you drive be suey? Very well, sir. Very well, and I had my doubts, but he did drive me and sure enough within four days crashed quite bad Hugh isn't especially fond of cats which is surprising considering they share his suspicion of people and permanent look of irritation Perhaps the resemblance is exactly the problem you grant you like cats up to a point Don't like it when they suddenly jump on you yawn kato meat in your face My brother's you've met Jamie I have I Didn't realize the other day for the last 30 years. He's been going to bed In a t-shirt rather short and nothing else my my brother does that what's that? It's unacceptable man Oh, that is weird. No, it's like he's like in a mini. He looks Disturbed I think they call it Winnie the Pooh. Okay. Yeah, do they I think it's called Winnie the Pooh ing Have a very short he'd a little top and no bottoms When Hugh realized he was getting out of shape he hired a personal trainer and let's just say that his training was slightly Unconventional, but I was saggy. That's what it was I was you know Have you ever had that thing where you're washing your face? I was shaving and I rinsed my face like this in the basin and I looked up at the mirror to the side and my Eyes looked up and my face stayed down in the basin And that's when I knew I had to do something so now I have this fantastic Swedish woman who comes three times a week and The whole idea of a trainer is not very appealing but she's so kind she takes me to the park and she Sticks for me like a dog. I have to fetch them She's very strict if I don't fetch them fast enough And then we go back to the house and she puts me on the floor of my sitting room and wrestles me for half an hour Really Nothing reveals how much Hugh cares about acting quite like someone else being better at it He may dismiss his own career But when a co-star steals the scene the wounded pride becomes impossible to hide. There's an amazing cast in the film When you're surrounded by so many other great actors Does that make you up your game or or do you mean you can kind of relax a little bit because it's a team effort How do you guys approach that? Well, I certainly don't like anyone to be too good in any scene that I'm in Get in their head a little bit Well, I don't like anyone being good in the scene I'm supposed to be full of love for you. And I thought nothing but undiluted loathing. I Had no idea how much TV was worth here. Yeah, this guy. I'm Simon Helberg. Who's in Florence Foster Jenkins? Yes, when he came over to work on the film I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before Gradually you realize not only is the guy a much bigger star than me. He's maybe the richest man I've ever met for someone who claims not to enjoy acting very much Hugh has difficulty switching it off an ordinary interview can suddenly become a scene and he is truly good at it The movie is the exorcist the power of Christ competes you or You know the power of Christ compels you I like to react to that place What am I I'm going to act the part, please I'll do it again. Yes, please. Oh Long before Donald Trump entered the White House He briefly shared the screen with Hugh in two weeks notice years later Hughes recollection of him was about as flattering as you'd expect given that he was he acted with me Protocol being well brought up demands that I can't I can't be negative about him I'm never negative about people I work with in case they're negative about me At least I'm not publicly I am I stab them in the back behind their back by this point It's difficult to tell whether Hugh attract strange situations or simply notices the absurdity Everyone else misses either way even an ordinary day seems to leave him with a story worth telling Action is awful Stephen Frears. Yeah has a very bad action habit. Really? Yeah, he goes and one two three action Cut cut Stephen this is an intimate little scene between two people and that's just terrifying. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry Well, I've wanted I've wanted to get my boobies out for some years and you did and we thank you so What do you look for in a woman in a beauty Just a great soul, I don't care about experience anymore Thank you for watching. If you are still here, what celebrity would you like to see next? Do you prefer longer videos? I'll see you in the next one. It looked good. It slowed me down. I tried a mustache for my character in pre-production. Oh and no Well, the mother of my children refused to have sex with me while I had it. So I deal-breaker It was a bit. Yeah for sure But then I showed it to Stephen Frears rather proud of it and he said get it off immediately. I won't have sex with you Yeah, he also Yesterday you met with the American press Were you expecting some kind of questions about you know, the American president popping in 10 Downing Street Was there anything funny about the questions you were asked? from the American press Sometimes I had to hold a hand in the scene and it was cold like a like a nervous person Yeah, it's not possible. Is it do you get nervous before you do your big bang?