Hugh Grant Acting Like An Asshole Tonight At The Oscars

Cranky professional baby daddy. Totally "ok" to ignore him and his mood swings.

Oh that's just his British humor. He's really trying to be cheerful and funny. He does it to everyone. Watch him on inside the actress studio. He's hilarious!

Her first question was awkward.

[quote] Watch him on inside the actress studio

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[quote]Her first question was awkward.

But she hammered home with the rest her questions putting Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow and David Brinkley to shame.

I saw that too, and wondered why he was being such a jerk. I saw him roll his eyes and it sort off pissed me off. Low class.

I think the reason he comes off as an asshole is because he answered the questions honestly.

Not everyone wants to be an airhead in La La Land.

That female on the left of the screen looked 50% plastic and 50% silicone.

He was okay, IMO. Not playing the game. But why did he even show up.

[quote] 50% plastic and 50% silicone.

That’s what Hugh likes when he’s driving around LA.

Yikes! She was wonderfully professional and he was an ass.

Dopey LA broads do fellatio better than they do conversation.

[quote] That’s what Hugh likes when he’s driving around LA.

No, bitch! He wants the real stuff -- ass, titties and brown sugar.

Kudos to the woman interviewing the jerk. She kept it going and ended the interview graciously. He didn't even try.

[quote] Why was he there?

I heard his female companion (whose name I don't know) had some business function to fullfil.

And Englishmen do have a 'dry sense of humour'.

Hugh Grant hasn't aged well at all. 62, but looks closer to 72, even with good lighting. He blamed it on not using moisturizer, when his four pack a day nicki habit is to blame.

Her questions as well as all her commentaries on the Beige carpet gave new meaning to dumb cunt. I think he was the only reacting appropriately to her, whoever she is.

That was not dry humor. He was being difficult. If he had not been on live TV, I bet he would’ve said something to her for not knowing what he meant by Vanity Fair. I mean he was bold enough to roll his eyes as he walked away.

Others were gracious—like Pedro Pascal—when asked what he was wearing. The actors expect inane questions and he fucking knows better.

I just saw him in Sense and Sensibilty and he couldn’t stutter his way out of a paper bag. And don’t get me started on that fisted, hesitant walk.

Nah, OP. Only some trigger-sensitive flowers are going off about it. Everyone in the UK thought him amusing. The interviewer's questions were wearily inane, and fully deserving of the eyeroll: she needs to stop fronting up in her grandmother's knickers if she wants to be taken seriously. Everyone knows Grant's personality, and a skilled interviewer needs to be on his wavelength. The only wavelength this heap of shallow Hollywood smarm was on was Brenda Dicksons.

WTF was she wearing? It looked like underwear.

Still, he was a jerk to her, when he was so funny and upbeat when presenting with Andie MacDowell. He chose to treat her like garbage.

You know how bitchy Brits can be...

Andy was being stiff.

Have a sense of humor lady, it’s the Oscars.

It’s not the Nobel prize.

Looks like he was being very difficult and trying to be funny at the same time. The cheerful interviewer handled it well.

He was rude and patronizing, acting like he was above being there and answering the same questions everyone else answered. I'm sick of Brits getting a pass for having a 'dry sense of humor' when they're just cunts.

He couldn't believe someone had the nerve to ask him these basic questions. Hugh, honey, that's Hollywood. You smile, joke a little (without taking the piss out of someone), and you try to make it a fun little moment. The eye roll at the end was nasty.

[quote] And Englishmen do have a 'dry sense of humour'.

Dry sense of humor = no sense of humor.

Does he not know what his job is? These pampered actors need a reality check.

[quote] Everyone in the UK thought him amusing.

0/10

Hasn't he always been an asshole?

He’s such a jerk and just oozes baggage.

British people aren’t as pretentious as Americans. Americans like fake. That’s why British TV never works in the US. Like the American version of The Office always had to have happy endings at the end of each episode. Brits don’t believe in happy endings.

I don’t know if that makes sense but I get it.

The exchange about "Vanity Fair".

She thought he was referring to the 2023 magazine after party.

He was talking about the 1848 novel about shallow society,

R32 That was his only dick moment.

He knew that airhead wouldn’t get it.

He was upset she called him a “veteran”.

There is nothing wrong with Grant's response. He probably wasn't comfortable answering those questions at that moment.

He was talking about the concept of a vanity fair, r32, originally from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

The “Vanity Fair” comment was definitely planned as he would know that pretty much every interviewer on the champagne carpet would assume that he was talking about VF the magazine and its after party.

I find him quite funny when his humour is at his own expense (e.g. the scrotum joke) but purposefully planning to embarrass someone on live TV (which I’m sure that he did) was a dick move.

It’s Grant’s humor.

This is a fun interview of him and Sandra.

Some snowflakes need to relax. If ABC had talented ppl to interview that could have been a very fun moment.. Instead they now have a plus size model wearing lingerie and a former child star asking dull questions which they don’t know how to react (if the answer is unexpected) or come up with the same dry humor to keep the interview going. I actually loved when he said his tailor made his suit.

Joan Rivers… Good times.

[quote] Ashley Graham.

Is this someone we need to know about?

Being “interviewed” by that retarded bitch with the vocal fry, granny knickers and inane questions is enough to make anyone roll their eyes.

The interviewer asked a badly-phrased and vacuous first question and Hugh Grant wasn’t hoping that anyone in particular would win. Then he’s asked an even sillier question about his clothes: it’s not his fault the interviewer was crap.

Jesus Christ, those questions were inept and painful! He was way nicer than I expected, having read these comments. He was in Glass Onion in a one minute cameo and she asked him what it was like to film a thriller? She clearly didn’t know anything about Hugh Grant and wasn’t prepared at all.

I wish he had gotten cornholed in "Maurice".

Even though the people working the red carpet tend to be pretty vapid; it's a tough job: you're talking to someone for like 30 seconds & this person has been spitting out sound bytes like a pez dispenser all night & all you want is some little nugget to keep people for changing the channel. However banal it might be, that's the game for both sides. Hugh knows this, but just acts like an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. And I don't think it's a British thing - say something charming & gracious & be on your way - you're an actor for fuckssake, just fake it!

He was fine in this clip. He was trolling, but he wasn't trollher HER in a mean way. Just being dry and droll about the whole thing. Plus, she was rude in the manner of many American red-carpet quote-unquote "interviewers," where the "interview question" is just for them to blather on and on.

This Englishman's two minutes of peevishness provided the only thing of interest from this long tedious night in La La Land.

I thought he was fine. But then again I live in the UK and am surrounded by people just like him. In fact, a few years ago he was looking to buy a horse property not too far down the road from me. I don't think he bought it though.

I didn't watch so not sure who the person was but Hugh is known for not liking the Hollywood game and red carpet bullshit and I don't blame him.

Nobody forced him to do this interview. He did it for a few extra minutes of camera time. And he's been around long enough to know these brief carpet interviews are always soft basic questions because there's no time for depth of any kind. "Who/what are you wearing?" has been standard for 3 decades now, thanks to Joan.

If he doesn't like it, don't do it. Plenty of people don't.

Didn’t this idiot get busted for getting a blowjob in a car? He’s fugly!!!!

[quote]She was wonderfully professional and he was an ass.

What profession would that be?

Not one where she has any inkling of how to phrase a question to elicit a good response. Not one where she might know to ask one of her subjects a different sort of question than given to the rest (But wasn't it great fun to film your three seconds in The Glass Onion? It was fun, right?) Not one where she has a clue how to shift gears when the subject is less than forthcoming to the first questions.

Americans do place a high value on the appearance of everything being "fun" and light and bubbly and feigning close relationships with strangers. The appearance of a friendly exchange has more value than any substance: the former is emphasized, the latter of no importance whatsoever.

He's English. The world-weary cynicism and nonchalance can grate at times.

His first remark -- "vanity fair" -- does hit the mark.

Team Hugh all the way. I assume this woman doesn't have any experience in reporting? You can't hand just anyone a microphone and expect things to go well.

The Vanity Fair thing was painful.

She's not a reporter. That's model Ashley Graham, and it's very common for these type of interviews to be done by lower-level celebrities. Again, Hugh knows the deal. He could have declined a carpet moment, or just try to be as gracious to her as she was to him. He's perfectly capable of playing humble when he needs to.

I like how he refers to the Oscars spectacle being "Vanity Fair" - I'm guessing he's referring to the Thackeray novel about human folly, but of course the gal thinks he's talking about the after party. She did the best she could. He's right but should have stayed home.

I hate this vacuous small talk as much as the next person, but I've also been in her position, where it's your job and you have to just get through it. It is possible to carry off a conversation like that where the subtext for both people is "this is stupid, and I hate it," and still be polite to the other person. Americans, despite their reputation for mindless pleasantries, are often quite capable of understanding that, and adapting to it.

Also, Grant opted into the interview. He could have just said "no."

I would love someone to have asked him: “As a later in life Dad, do you dread the day your kids google Divine Brown?”

[quote]Grant opted into the interview. He could have just said "no."

Could he have been contractually obliged to participate?

What a miserable wanker.

At least we knew who he was.

Hugh - are you still in touch with Divine Brown?

You're just mad OP, because his nickname is "Huge Grant" and you know you can never have him.

R63 is Hugh Grant.

I'm more bothered by OP's picture of that cunt Rooney Mara once again looking like a refugee who's been separated from her family.

Must this bitch always let the world know just how miserable she is to be rich and entitled?

Bullshit to his defenders. He knew exactly what to expect from an 3 minute w and an on the red carpet and if it really bothered him he wouldn't have agreed to the interview. He saw it as an opportunity to enhance his status by belittling and humiliating a young and experienced reporter. It wasn't some kind of masterclass flex, it was Punching down. It was tacky.

At least it was real. What other champagne carpet moments are we talking about? But I get the argument he knew the game so whatever the bimbo said, he was obligated to play along. You can't say Angela Bassett was classless for sulking in the front row and then say Hugh just had no patience. He didn't, but the game requires otherwise.

I don’t think it was so bad. He answered her questions. These interviewers are just trying to pump people up but for some of these people it’s just work at the end of the day. Grant strikes me as someone who would rather have been elsewhere but probably had some obligation to be there. I think he has the right attitude- I.e. not taking this celebrity thing too seriously.

As for the glass onion question, it did seem as though she thought he had a bigger part than he did. I mean he literally could have phoned that performance in. Had she not mentioned it I probably wouldn’t even have remembered him being in it at all.

R68 She was desperately trying to engage him in conversation. "Glass Onion" was her last resort, and he continued to be a supreme asshole to her.

Granted, she was vapid and inane, but all the folks asking questions on the red carpet are like that. It's not like he hasn't been through this kind of thing before.

He looks like a scrotum and IS a scrotum.

If he wasn't taking the celebrity thing too seriously, he wouldn't have acted above it all. Of course she was going to ask about Glass Onion--it's the only nominated film he was in! She asked him something like "was it fun?" which is a perfectly nice way to bring up that he was in the movie even if it was a tiny part. He could have made a "nice" joke about barely being in it, instead he treated her mentioning it like an insult. Plenty of actors do cameos in movies and talk about enjoying the experience. Daniel Craig had a whole cute story about doing a quick uncredited walk-on as a stormtrooper in The Force Awakens. So Brits can be cheeky-cute.

I don’t think he owes it to her to make it look like she’s a better reporter than she is. Maybe the problem is that she just isn’t very good and needs to adapt. He’s done her a favour. She can learn from this.

R71 Right. Hugh Grant, wise mentor of vapid red carpet interviewers.

Puhleez. Quit trying to excuse this dickwad's behavior.

He didn't do anything wrong. She was asking inane questions. What are you wearing? Who made your suit? You didn't make it?

Are you kidding me? I would have just turned and walked away from such idiocy. And I saw no eyeroll from him, just looking around for someone to hand the microphone to and get away from there.

R73 First of all, they ALL ask those same questions. I guarantee he's been asked those same questions dozens of times before. It's what they ask on the red carpet.

Second, he does roll his eyes. Watch the clip again as he walks away.

Whenever I see Hugh these days either at work or off the clock, I’m just like, “oh, the poor old fella’s tired again.” He needs to go into hibernation for a few years.

He’s still capable of being gracious, witty and at least somewhat engaged when he’s speaking about something important to him or important in general. He’s like Rob Pattinson in that regard.

Meh. A lot of these red carpet interviewers are annoying as shit.

Where was the mention of him being a veteran and of Vanity Fair? It wasn't in OP's clip.

You’d just expect better questions at an event like the Oscars why do they have to be the same inane questions as every other award show.

Must be a bit embarrassing for Hugh that she’s making out his role in Glass Onion to be more important than it was.he was probably taken a back and wondering if she’d actually seen the movie.

R78 Oh, please. All the questions are the same.

"What are you wearing?"

"Who are you looking forward to seeing tonight?"

"What was your favorite film this year?"

"What was it like being in that movie?"

It's all vapid and inane. If Grant wanted a deep conversation, he came to the wrong place.

He should host next year. With her.

R79 He could've said something like, "I was only in the movie for about two minutes, but I was happy to be a part of it, even though if you blink, you'll miss me." Gracious answer. Moving on.

Instead, he acted like a dick when she asked about it, and then doubled down on his dickishness when she asked if it was a fun experience.

I really wished at that point she had said, "Well, clearly, you're not interested in talking about movies or the Oscars. So let's talk about that time you got caught getting sucked off by a crackhead whore in your car on Hollywood Boulevard."

He's so, so over the Oscar's bullship. Maybe he just showed up for the grab bag of free shit?

Grant's on the job. So is the interviewer. They're on duty.

I'd identify Grant's mistake as a momentary lapse in professionalism.

Yes, he's old, he's seen it all, he's crabby. But, he knows the drill.

True, she lacked the depth of a rain puddle, but I agree with whoever upthread said he was punching down.

R78/R80 “Hugh! Hugh! C0ke or Pepsi? Boxers or briefs? Anal or oral? Hugh!”

R82, are you here because this seems to matter to you deeply in a multi-post kind of a way. How has this touched you personally?

[quote] I really wished at that point she had said, "Well, clearly, you're not interested in talking about movies or the Oscars. So let's talk about that time you got caught getting sucked off by a crackhead whore in your car on Hollywood Boulevard."

Well judging by her reporting skills this sounds about her level.

More inane questions she could have asked and Hugh should have answered graciously.

What did you have for breakfast today?

Did you go to the bathroom already?

What’s Liz Hurley really like?

Do you still keep in touch with Nicole Kidman?

R86 I get the feeling you haven't been touched - deeply or otherwise - in many, many decades.

Really, you are all expecting far too much from a faded drunk old UMC Englishman who isn’t getting many calls these days.

It’s like asking for sparkling squeaky-clean white-veneered conduct from Withnail.

R86 obviously doesn't understand how DL works.

A lot of these comments scream FRAU.

You should have heard this dead beat while I was doing him in his car!

Me: "Does that feel good? You like that baby?"

Hugh: "Well, it's not at all unpleasant. I suppose I could probably like it more."

Yes, R89, it's not about me. I'm not the one who's made eight increasingly hostile posts about something that didn't happen to me personally.

R94 Yet here you are, trying to make it about you.

R77 This clip cuts out the first part of the interview where she calls him an Oscar veteran and he makes the vanity fair comment, which obviously went right over her head.

I was watching it live last night and cringed when she didn't understand the "vanity fair" part. But then his relentlessly asshole-ishness that ensued afterward was really unnecessary on his part.

He was condescending. Full stop.

And given his privilege, it's inappropriate, no matter how vapid the girl was. It's their job to look good and put a mic in front of people like Mr. Important here, not trade witticisms with them.

The celebrities who are gracious and polite are the memorable ones for me. Sigourney Weaver for instance, who complimented her interviewer's appearance as she ended her interview. The older ones especially should realize how important reputation is to their trade.

[quote] The celebrities who are gracious and polite are the memorable ones for me.

And yet nobody is talking about her, and everybody is talk oh about Grant.

R98 For all the wrong reasons.

And how is that a good thing if the chatter is negative, r98?

Y'all the Ii interviewer is plus sized model Ashley Graham.

Hugh was probably attracted and wanted all that, so was mean because he had a crush and was really into her.

R101 Her outfit was tragic. Tragic!

Still, Grant was a complete dick to her. I don't think he was attracted to her. He looks STD-filled crack whores who walk the streets.

She's a very nice person.

Here's how you respond graciously to inane questions:

Syrian refugee children with head injuries are more intelligent and articulate than Ashley Graham. You need better boilerplate questions than “you’ve been to the Oscars so many times, you’re such a veteran, what’s your favorite part of coming to the Oscars”? He rolled his eyes, he didn’t call her a fatty dressed like a whorehouse lampshade.

R104 that was cringe! I’m suspecting a low IQ is helpful in dealing with such inane questions.

So even a plus sized model has a minus sized brain.

R106 is Jim Carrey.

Grant is a basic bitch. He should count his lucky stars having made millions in a profession where more talented actors than him are struggling. Three minutes of more of inanity are a small price to pay, it’s not like he has a PhD in astrophysics.

Brits are sensitive to American fakery. Some don't like the Hollywood red carpet and treating other people like they're less than because they're not a star. LA is all about being a name. It's probably an awkward position to be in.

Why can’t we heighten our expectations culturally. Why do we have to accept mediocrity and stupid questions like this? Why can’t we expect something more from these shows? That interviewer has an exclusive moment with Hugh Grant aka Clive from Maurice and she couldn’t even ask him what kissing James Wilbuy was like and if they still get together in real life and if he knows who’s secretly gay in Hollywood…

Fail!!

Good for Hugh. I’m sick of the syrupy phony shut in Hollywood. He doesn’t seem like someone who tolerates idiots.

Longer clip here.

I can't imagine putting on a big smile and playing along with all the trite and cheesy bullshit. The funniest shit ever was Trey Parker and Matt Stone at the Oscars - they were wearing evening gowns and were out of their heads on LSD, making a complete mockery of the red carpet chatter.

Hugh has admitted he doesn't take this shit seriously. I read an interview once where said he'd much rather be at home watching tv and eating a curry.

R115 Then that's where he should've been.

I doubt there was one person there last night - or one TV viewer - who said, "Gosh, I sure hope Hugh Grant shows up. The Oscars are nothing without him!"

It’s funny how both Hugh and Angela are getting shit for honest human behavior.

Yeah r115 and I read an interview where Gwyneth Paltrow said she milks cows to relax in the evening.

Why so pissy R118? It's obvious that he'd rather be elsewhere.

The interviewer was dressed so inappropriately he didn't know where to look. I'm sure it wasn't at the fat hanging over the waist of her undies.

Then why isn't he elsewhere? He chose to be there! He chose to accept the interview. He might not "want " to be there but feels like he "has" to be there because it keeps his name in peoples heads but it's still a choice. I don't want to be at my job most mondays but if I deal with it by responding like a cunt to the receptionist's vapid pleasantries, that doesn't make me some kind of hero. He's trying to have his cake and eat it too and I see through it and I think it's tacky as hell

The interviewers are much busier figuring out their outfit and makeup than they are preparing for their job. That's been apparent for several years.

I don't know why anybody is defending him. It's a short, 2 minute red carpet interview. What else are they supposed to ask these celebrities other than mundane pleasantries? That's the game. Hugh Grant (who wasn't nominated and didn't need to be there) could have stayed home or skipped the carpet if he didn't feel like dealing with banal questions.

You seem to take it personally R121. These are strangers you will likely never meet and this affects you in no way.

R123 That’s who he is. He’s always behaved this way.

In an interview he did with Drew Barrymore, he said his wife was terrifying and more manlier than he was.

It’s just his sense of humor. It’s usually making jokes out of honesty.

If you can tolerate this horrible editing, you’ll see it’s very normal for him.

R125 I've seen him give interviews with his dry sense of humor.

His behavior last night was *not* one of this moments. He was just a condescending, disrespectful prick.

[quote]You’d just expect better questions at an event like the Oscars why do they have to be the same inane questions as every other award show.

Because if you ask some clever, deep question, chances are the interviewee will stammer and not be able to think of a good response on the spur of the moment.

I'm sure the people defending his rudeness and using the old "He's British" excuse, would have another opinion if he were acting like such a dick and was black.

Don't agree to do interviews or don't show up at all. He knows damned well he's not there to be asked about tension with China. Everything about these events is meant to be vapid.

He showed he was just downright classless. He's just far too impressed with himself for someone who went looking for a hooker.

There was no reason to treat her like that if you're actually a gentleman.

[quote]if he were acting like such a dick and was black.

Umm, no one brought up color except you but if he was Black and known for this type of humor then he'd get the same reaction. Quit being racist.

I think most of the people complaining about his behavior and who keep bringing up hookers are fraus because no one else cares.

R130, "umm" absolute bullshit. It's called a hypothetical, you speed bump. That wasn't humor, that was him being condescending. And I absolutely believe people like you would've been negative towards him if he behaved that way and was a minority. I'm quite familiar with his humor, that's still no excuse for him. He could just fake it.

And R131, you're a fool for thinking one has to be a "frau" for pointing out that you don't get to act all high and mighty when we all know you were looking to pay a hooker. The hooker thing is brought up because it's supposed to humble his ass. You don't get to act as though being interviewed by some dumbass model is so beneath you when the world knows you were arrested hiring a prostitute.

Normally, I don't mind those types of reactions, but come on. It's not like she was rude towards him. We all know it's an event where stupid questions are asked. You're never going to be asked about anything important, so just go with it for the minute you're interviewed by the plus-sized model.

The spectacle of a woman standing there in acres of gauze that did nothing to conceal her underwear and asking him what he was wearing certainly riveted me! I thought he was honestly flummoxed by the question, “What are you wearing” and that he might well have answered, “I’ve been wondering the same about you.”

[quote]That wasn't humor, that was him being condescending. And I absolutely believe people like you would've been negative towards him if he behaved that way and was a minority.

And you would be absolutely wrong, speedbump.

Had they run out good scotch at the open bar? The creaky coot might have been due a bit of social lubrication.

She was not a great interviewer as far as I could see and I’m not a fan of hers, but he was an ass. Even if you find her trivial and dumb, just hold it together for a few minutes. It was cringe watching it.

He's always been a cunt.

[quote]The appearance of a friendly exchange has more value than any substance

You expect substance from a three minute interview, R52?

[quote] She was not a great interviewer as far as I could see and I’m not a fan of hers, but he was an ass. Even if you find her trivial and dumb, just hold it together for a few minutes.

That’s exactly what he did. People are projecting onto this that he was rude… he just didn’t know how to answer these questions the way she wanted him to.

I thought it was hilarious. 😁

R139 He knew exactly what he was doing - being an absolute prick.

Is anyone else savouring the galactic irony of DL whining about rudeness and bad behaviour?

The planet really can't end soon enough.

R142 Trying to equate anonymous DL online bitchiness to in-person, live celebrity television interviews is a bit of a stretch, don't ya think?

R139, he rolled his eyes on camera as soon as he was done talking to her.

Meh, rude would've been turning the question back on her. What the hell are YOU wearing, and who threw that mess together?

R145 Yeah, because asking "what are you wearing" is a rude question.

(eye roll)

There was nothing rude in his responses. She embarrassed herself. Ste took a job she wasn’t any good at. He didn’t embarrass her.

It's a rude question when you're wearing that.

She’s lucky she didn’t have someone more No bullshit. I wonder what Lauren Bacall would have thought of her inane questions.

True, R149. People who act rude always come off well.

British sense of humor = everyone concerned enjoying the wittiness of clever wordplay.

British dry sense of humor = making fun of you using references you won't get in front of other British people and smiling all the while.

Rolling your eyes coming off a red carpet interview is fucking rude. She was doing her job and if he didn't want to be there he should have not submitted to an interview. But he's always been a rude asshole.

But there was no clever wordplay from him, R151.

What should she have asked him, R149? What his thoughts are on Ukraine? He's a fucking actor. Hilarious that he's on a red carpet at an awards show and copping an attitude about it. Stay the fuck home, then, asshole.

I love the British sense of humor.

What would Joan Rivers say to him/about him?

The interviewer acted like she was interviewing him for some school newspaper. Know your audience Bitch!

Americans are so obsessed with being “nice” above anything else. It’s suffocating and boring.

Love him in that clip with Ellen. You can tell he doesn't play to the gushing "oh, I'm such a huge fan of yours" bullshit.

So being an asshole is British humor.

He had to pay a woman to give him a blowjob. ‘Nuff said.

It's very important work he's doing, being on a red carpet.

Hysterical that gay men (or are they?) bring up ancient history about a blow job. No one gives shit. This isn't 1860 anymore.

If he was so clever, he could have found something interesting to say in response to her predictable questions. He couldn't be bothered.

[quote] If he was so clever, he could have found something interesting to say in response to her predictable questions.

Well the Vanity Fair comment already went over her head. Good luck with that idea!

R165 And it’s not like he said anything over the fact that she didn’t get the reference.

R165, he could have found something interesting to say about his involvement in Knives Out. Maybe he's not that clever except when he's prepared comments ahead of time.

I just watched the interview. I didn't see a huge problem until the Vanity Fair reference and she thought he was talking about the party. His look was kind of like "omg, they stuck me with this moron". He had a look of incredulity and near panic to me.

Yes, he's a real intellectual.

So if you watch that video, that's his thing. He doesn't play the game. He was messing with Oprah.

I like him now, he's a bit of a devil. Good for him.

R163, who gives a shit about him, period? Or "full stop" as they say in Merry Olde England.

His complete irreverence has always been his draw for me.

[quote] Good for him.

Good for him for what, R170?

[quote] who gives a shit about him, period?

Well you, r171. Rather intensely apparently. Why is that?

[quote] He had a look of incredulity and near panic to me.

Well she caused the joke to fall like a lead balloon. Maybe she’s the rude one.

I don't, R174, beyond commenting on what an asshole he is on an Oscars thread. Any other questions?

No, R175, she wasn't.

R167 He was in it for 3 seconds, as he said. He probably spent a day on the set and probably not even a full one.

What should he have asked him, exactly?

R176, but you've done it thirteen times.

Talking to himself would have made it worse, R179.

*What should she

You care enough to count my posts, R180?

I am fascinated enough by your disorder to, yes, R183.

You're fucking crazy.

You also miscounted the first time, R184. And remember you counted my posts, not the other way around.

And you're a fucking cunt.

This is who Ashley Graham was going home to last night, so, no, I won't feel sorry for her!

Of course, all of us would have gotten the reference to the 19th century novel "Vanity Fair". It's one of the most famous novels of all time.

Hugh who????

I have R183 blocked but it's having some sort of psychotic break?

I have R189 blocked because she seems to be some kind of troll.

The line between banter and shithousing is becoming more nebulous with time, apparently....

[quote] shithousing

What's that, R191?

I LOVE that he acted this way causing frau cows and keyboard karens everywhere to lose their shit over some inane red carpet bullshit banter that most sane people don't give a flying fuck about.

Really, R193? That's what you LOVE?

Right R193?

He was refreshing. Her questions were dumb and how he avoided staring at those gargantuan granny panties is a testament to his restraint.

[quote] He was refreshing.

Oh, brother. Maybe to a Brit.

Why did ABC let her dress like a common whore with her fat hanging out like she was some commoner working the elliptical machine at the local gym?

Her questions were befitting of such a low-rent presentation.

Amused that questioning the interview style of the illiterate, ill informed and banal question asking interviewer is "punching down" in the US, and that you are all frothing at the mouth because Grant didn't fix on their "have a nice day" smile on for that vacuous interviewer. I'm fairly sure that it's only in the US that being stupid is lauded, and that anyone that fails to stoop to that level is an "asshole".

That interviewer was such an idiot.

"Who is Thackeray?"

R192 SO glad you asked I love getting the chance to introduce this to Yanks!!!!

Essentially it implies a combination of acting the wind-up merchant, and also a rude aggy little prick who's trying to pick a fight--in American and internet parlance, think trash-talking+trolling+fucking around (and probably finding out later on).

It's more impolite, taunting, demeaning and hostile than just a bit of banter, which is usually playful and friendly with the intent of connecting with the target on an equal level (though it may not sound that way to foreign ears).

R199, not all just a clutch of frauen. I'm Southern and totally love his Vanity Fair remark and her subsequent bimbo response.

[quote] I'm fairly sure that it's only in the US that being stupid is lauded, and that anyone that fails to stoop to that level is an "asshole".

Well, R199, Brits have to feel superior about something, I guess. Rolling your eyes at an interviewer sounds about right.

If you hate the format of these interviews, then don't participate in them, and just make your reasons known in whatever forum you deem appropriate. Snark and eye-rolling is not going to change anything.

But he's always been like that. When he was in that Florence Foster Jenkins movie with Streep, they were both on Graham Norton and she made some little remark in front of him about what a cunt he was--to her, even.

He is awful. Robert Downey Jr. despised him. And Andie was clearly over him last night.

Mocking an interviewer on an Oscars red carpet is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.

When did he do a movie with RDJ?

Grant himself admits he's awful. I find him refreshing in his honesty.

Andie who?

Love those clips at r126. And honestly, what is worse, a little eye rolling at interviewers and answering some questions bluntly. Or Oprah making the truly moronic statement that Julia Roberts is one of the nicest people she's ever met? Are you fucking kidding? Is anybody even supposed to believe for five seconds that you believe that? Is anybody supposed to take that shit seriously?

He did a movie I've never heard of called Restoration with RDJ. Their feud is well-documented.

Andie MacDowell (sp?).

Damn you all are obsessed with him

210 posts on some random interview

[quote]Really, [R193]? That's what you LOVE?

Yes Keyboard Karen, I LOVE (all caps) that he acted the way he did and that it irks you. I said as much in my posting. Now perhaps unball your fists and go asshole wild by scolding someone on a MM thread.

Why is he even there? He hasn't had a hit since 1994 - Just like Nirvana!

R213 LOVES assholes being assholes because she's an asshole herself. Yet she pretends she's above it all as she continues to cunt away on a thread about another cunt. Got it.

Restoration was a good movie. Sorry he and RDJ hate each other, but shit happens, and I don't think anyone would want to pretend that RDJ has been an angel his whole life.

I remember that movie now R211. Meg Ryan was horribly miscast. in it. She should not do period pieces. Something about her is too modern. Like Julia Roberts.

When everyone you work with has a problem with you, you're the problem.

R214 you could ask that about half the people there every year. Nicholson showed up year after year after year for no reason.

But Nicholson was for years a big star, often in movies that were nominated, unlike Grant.

[quote]Good for him for what, [R170]?

Exactly. As if he stood for an actual, good cause. He was mean to some fat model asking dumb questions. WTF are you praising him for? The whole point of that nonsense is lighthearted shit.

Touched a nerve, I see, r215.

He’s only famous because he had to PAY someone to give him a blowjob in a car. He’s ugly as fuck so it’s no surprise that he had to pay to get sucked off. He’s fugly.

Don't think so highly of yourself, R215. You're a flabby asshole, not a gaping one. Even as an asshole you're overrated.

She should’ve told him to have a Divine (Brown) night at the end

He was quite dishy back in his day R223. He paid someone because he's a straight man and they're horn dogs. At the time he was living with Liz Hurley.

R221 I don't see any praise so much as many thinking the fraus are making a mountain out of a molehill and shrieking the way they do over Meghan and Harry.

R225 the Vanity Fair comment sailed over her head and you think she's witty enough to come up with that?

[quote]Don't think so highly of yourself. You're a flabby asshole, not a gaping one. Even as an asshole you're overrated.

UNCLENCH, karen.

Can't they get someone like Fran Leibowitz to do the interviews. Or anyone with a brain at all. She's a dumb forber model wearing panties and a see through skirt. How much respect does she deserve?

Hugh Grant is a truly unremarkable actor. He has no right to act so haughty and arrogant. Who the fuck does he think he is? The only roles of his anyone remembers are from 20+ years ago and in every single one his hair had more charisma and star power than the entire rest of him. Now he's old, decrepit and gray so the bitterness just ages him even more. Hopefully this is the last we see of him. I can't think of a less relevant actor alive today.

R228, you can cunt all you want. Keep going. Eventually you'll get sick of listening to yourself.

I almost wish I didn't have the shrieking Karen blocked. Her quoted comments are comedy gold.

Yet he's still working R230.

He paid for a blowjob. That’s the only way he can one.

I am not impressed by people who show up to events with the intention of making it clear that they wish they were someplace else. Okay, stay the fuck home, cunt. I don't need your attitude.

For some reason this seems to be acceptable behavior in the UK, but really, "wishing they were someplace else" is the expected default setting in that sodden wasteland.

I am conversant with Thackeray and also with John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, from which the title of the 19th century novel is derived. On the carpet at the Oscars I will assume you are referring to the famous after party. Context is a thing.

For what very little it's worth, Hugh and RDJ have buried the hatchet, evidently. As the only other people RDJ has ever been even slightly negative about are Chevy Chase and David Fincher, I am assuming you have to be an asshole of planetoid dimensions to irritate him.

The young lady appeared to be wearing a flotation device designed by Stevie Knicks.

[quote] She should’ve told him to have a Divine (Brown) night at the end

Then he could have asked her if she gets all of her fashion tips from Divine?

Hugh's case against UK tabloids for phone hacking was successful in going forward to being heard in court. The Daily Heil started anti Hugh articles last week. He also has a twitter account called I think HackedoffHugh. Gossip sites like Dlisted then linked the article and he was attacked by cough cough neutral trolls. He is very open about his thoughts on the UK tabloids.

I have R232 blocked, but I'm sure I'm missing nothing.

R237 that was excellent of him. The UK tabloids are scum. I've often thought he should get into politics. I also like that he thinks kids should not be allowed to be useless trust fund assholes and they should get out and work and make their own way.

R239, he has five children with two different women, so I'm sure he feels that way.

Being grumpy is his self-admitted schtick.

It's a very old shtick at this point. Nothing sillier than being one of the most entitled people on the planet complaining about a red-carpet interview.

Well that cow interviewer (what the fuck is she wearing?) deserves crumbs. How dumb is she?

Everyone loathes Chevy Chase.

He's on an Oscars red carpet. What does he expect--questions about EM Forster?

A witty, charming response would have been something like

“Oh, Glass Onion you say? Well. I wasn’t sure if I’d get the part; but when they gave me that 30-second segment I really went for it!”

It would’ve put the silly reporter in her place without being an obnoxious asshole. After 30-something years in the business, Hugh ought to know better.

The woman interviewing him is Ashley Graham. She’s a top model. Not a reporter. Because it was what used to be the red carpet. She was fine. What sort of questions did he think she was going to ask? It’s the frigging red carpet. You aren’t going to be asked about Ukraine. Of course it’ll be trivia. Either give a decent answer or don’t give an interview.

Maybe if he had worked more in the last year and appeared in a movie for more than 3 minutes he'd have had more to say.

It kind of looks to me like he had the mic shoved in his hand before he knew what happened.

He knew where he was, and how red carpets work.

I'm pretty sure that red carpet interviews aren't mandatory for attending an awards show.

The reason it's brought up, R163, is that based on Grant's past exploits, he's in no position to act haughty and condescending and above anyone else.

Once you get arrested for getting a bottom-of-the-barrel Hollywood Boulevard ho to suck your micropeen, you lose any future rights to be a holier than thou air sniffer.

I guess being a dick on Hollywood Boulevard is better than getting arrested for getting your dick sucked on Hollywood Boulevard

R234 he has about 3 babymammas. Two of them were knocked up at the same time if I recall. I don't think he lacks female companionship. A few more and he could be the elderly, white, British Nick Cannon. I'll give him credit though for avoid dropping he seed all over while he was young and waiting until he was older and more settled.

I’m loving that Hugh Grant has triggered and annoyed so many cunts.

[quote] I'm pretty sure that red carpet interviews aren't mandatory for attending an awards show.

Actually, I wonder about that. You have these interviewers there all desperate to rope in every celebrity that appears. How persistent are they? Is it really okay to just wave them away and walk on? What exactly is the customary view of this?

I suspect Hugh Grant was fine with the whole red carpet interview schtick and only got irritated when he realized he was dealing with a complete bobblehead dressed like a cheap and kind of crazy whore.

It quite funny R255.

Good for Hugh.

That bovine Hulk sticking her fat gut out at people she was "interviewing" was begging for a kick in the distended cunt all evening.

Has he paid for a blowjob recently? Ugly fuck.

Triggered frau alert @R259. They seem particularly obsessed with a blow job from 25 years ago.

Samuel L Jackson simply called the fat clown from Mad TV an idiot, which he was, pretending to be a serious interviewer. For Christ's sake, people. Do you expect professionals of this stature to stand on the red carpet and GUSH?

The above took place several years ago, btw.

Hugh was a dream boat in his youth. He had that preppy, WASPY look like young James Spader had. I'd still fuck him given half a chance.

I guess it's the small things for R255.

[quote]I have [R232] blocked, but I'm sure I'm missing nothing.

No you don't. If you did you wouldn't keep responding to him.

Zzzzzzzzzzz...

That’s not acting!

I wasn't impressed by Hugh here but the sheer CUNTERY of R258 still made me laugh.

The comments in here are cracking me up. “LET HUGH GRANT BE A RUDE CUNT!!!!! THE INTERVIEWER DESERVED IT BC SHE IS FAT DUMB AND FEMALE!!!”

He's so clever! He's read Vanity Fair! We LOVE British cunts because WE'RE British cunts!

Don’t assume the fat cunt’s gender R269

He was being British answering idiotic questions. How do you answer a question like “what do you hope to see tonight?” Uh, people winning awards.

He probably owns that tuxedo, unlike most of the barbarians there. That woman sounded like an idiot. Giuliana Rancic would have handled Grant just fine. Was that woman some sort of “intellectual equity” hire? A producer’s girlfriend?

Giuliana Rancic is where she ought to be - forgotten.

[quote] He probably owns that tuxedo, unlike most of the barbarians there.

A true sign of the civilized male--owning your own tux and getting blowjobs from black hookers.

Momma Bear Frau Cows are going apoplectic on this thread, triggered, no doubt by the usage of the term, "plus sized model" and "rude."

WE LOVE CALLING PEOPLE FRAUS BECAUSE WE'RE BRITISH AND WE CALL ALL WOMEN COWS! WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE BRITISH!

[quote] an airhead in La La Land

I enjoyed this airhead being 'abused' at the 2 minute mark.

Grinning like a loon.

Let’s start with the fact that the questions over “how excited!” everyone must be are so stupid.

You know what, a number of the most narcissistic are excited to be there. Especially for the veterans, the bloom has been long off the rose and it’s a million-hour exercise in torture. Ever go to a move premiere? It’s work for the actors… time away from their personal lives and you can tell how uncomfortable many are at being there as objects. Most look like they’d rather be anywhere else.

Imagine the joy of sitting for an hour or two in a line of black cars on Oscar day. Then enduring the red carpet nonsense of posing and answering vapid questions. Then it’s many hours before you can leave (and eat) then it’s a new outfit and off to a party to be photographed.

Along the way, this well-seeming model who is not qualified to be a greeter at Wal-Mart tries to get you to mirror her childish excitement over the magic of Oscar night. And when she asks about a film without realizing you we’re barely in it, I mean, it must be fascinating to stand there realizing that the moron will ask any question her producers have put on her cards or whispered into her ear. And she will shriek with excitement over how “amazing!” your movie was when the movie wasn’t merely pleasant and not up there with Citizen Kane.

Whatever it takes to keep his sanity, I say.

[quote] Imagine the joy of sitting for an hour or two in a line of black cars on Oscar day. Then enduring the red carpet nonsense of posing and answering vapid questions. Then it’s many hours before you can leave (and eat) then it’s a new outfit and off to a party to be photographed.

Awful. Just awful.

Asking a mature British man on the red carpet "Who are you wearing?" is clownish, naive, almost vulgar, and certainly rude.

SHE IS OBESE AND RETARDED!!!!!!! KILL HER!!!

Hugh should have countered. "I have a question for you. Does the gentleman dress to the right, or the left?"

KILL HER! WE HATE FRAU COWS! WE LOVE HUGH! HE'S SO SMART!

[quote]He was being British answering idiotic questions. How do you answer a question like “what do you hope to see tonight?” Uh, people winning awards.

Well, you're quite limited, aren't you. That question could've been answered with him saying who he hoped would win or any number of ways. Your answer was fucking stupid.

And "he was being British" is tiresome because we've all seen countless Brits answer questions without being pompous.

You know who he is? He's that guy in the Harvard bar in "Goodwil Hunting" who tried to humiliate Ben Affleck when he was hitting on a woman. In other words, we get it, you went to Oxford. Rachel Maddow is incredibly intelligent and I've never seen her feel the need to talk down to someone just because she could.

If she were being nasty to him, go for it. She was doing nothing but be typical of those types of vacuous interviews. What do you think his reaction would be if she asked "Since you're back in LA, have you attempted to meet a prostitute for nostalgia purposes?" If you want to ask him a real question.

goodwill*

But she's a woman and WE HATE WOMEN, R284! FRAUS! COWS!

R276 has got to be female and not a real DLer if she thinks only British DLers call women fraus. Frau is the accepted term by all here.

[quote] Does the gentleman dress to the right, or the left?"

Was this person a transvestite?

[quote]Asking a mature British man on the red carpet "Who are you wearing?" is clownish, naive, almost vulgar, and certainly rude.

He's at the Oscars. They're all asked that fucking question because the person providing the wardrobe does it for free promotion. It's a business, genius. It's not just some throwaway line.

Fucker had to pay for a blowjob! lolololololololol

It was ALWAYS quite stupid and vulgar to ask that question, who are you wearing? Not sure when it started but it's recent in the long history of show biz, and it's gross. And perhaps Hugh is not comped a dinner jacket anyway.

Things like these really bring out the offended (stupid) women, don’t they? Any gay men would have responded like ol’ Hugh.

you can tell he is trying to get away. I think it is dry humor too.

Dry humour completed lost on wet stupid pussy. Yes Hugh might have been more indulgent if Miss Thing had a big penis tucked under that FUPA.

*completely

No, R288--and that was the amazing thing. She was an actual woman, which shocked everyone because he's British.

Actually, r11, she wasn't at all professional because it was quite obvious that she hadn't even bothered to watch the film.

ah, I stand corrected.

He wasn't even talking about the book, but the concept of a vanity fair.

That's nothing, R296. I saw some idiot interviewer talking to Martin Short, whose wife had just died, and she said, "Give my best to your wife." I think he may have also just written a book about it.

How's THAT for idiotic? And you know what Short did. He just nodded, and said, "Thanks." He wasn't a cunt like Hugh Grant.

That was meant for R297.

He didn't have to pay he chose to. Lots of men in his position do so. No stalkerish fan to deal with if he picked her up in a bar.

A bar, R302? I think he just picked her up in his car.

He's classy, that Hugh.

for the record, he did not say anything rude. It appears she does not know anything about him. Also, he just answering her questions, she seems to be really mad and not playing along. Why is this circulating at all? This is just a short interview about nothing.

R304, he rolled his eyes after it, thinking he couldn't be seen.

for the record, he did not say anything rude to her. It is a short interview, about nothing. It's strange this is circulating. The interviewer is not on her game, but this happens. It is more her fault. But who cares.

R306, see R305.

Because sparkle ponies can't accept that both parties put on a bad showing. Hugh is playing obtuse and she's a stupid cow dressed like a clown and smiling like an escapee from a lunatic asylum. She's very amateur, and Hugh is such an old pro, who couldn't really be bothered to throw her a bone.

The end.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOO. Because in today's binary world, there must be a GOOD HERO and A VERY BAD PERSON.

No, R308, none of all that. He was just being an asshole, like he always is.

But yeah, I agree that she's stupid.

But if your interviewee seems not on their game, you have to help them. It could have been a short, but sweet interview. She was not on her game. This is fine though, it happens.

I agree with that. But at Hugh's advanced age, he clearly couldn't be bothered. Does it make him the big bad man who must be cancelled? She really was being quite idiotic and clownish.

I thought her questions were fine, just the sort of questions that one should expect on the red carpet (or beige carpet) for an event like this.

I repeat: Martin Short handled a situation that was far worse and with an even more out-of-touch interviewer about his dead wife with elegance and kindness--unlike Hugh Grant, who's neither elegant nor kind. He's certainly not generous.

You do NOT have to play ball with amateurs at such "rat fucks". That's the nature of the business and holds true at rat fucks in many professions.

Well, Kudos to Martin Short. Wasn't Malala Yousafzai there last night? Or was it last year? Did any clown shove a microphone in her face and ask "Who are you wearing, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai?" And I'm sure Malala was kindness and graciousness personified.

Thrown her a bone? He should've thrown her an overcoat.

Did Hugh try to pick up Angela Bassett in the parking lot thinking she was a tranny crack whore?

This is why Hugh Grant is an asshole. Watch how Martin Short dealt with a truly moronic Kathie Lee Gifford, and see the difference.

OH my lord you've made your point and it's been recognised. Must we kiss Martin's feet? Your feet? Martin's ass? What?

I suspect they'll continue until you get it, R319, which you clearly haven't yet.

[quote]Actually, [R11], she wasn't at all professional because it was quite obvious that she hadn't even bothered to watch the film.

Most of the people voting in the academy haven't even seen all of the friggin films

No, R319, I'd also like you to admit you're a stupid cunt as well.

But it was the Oscars, and she hadn't even seen "Knives Out Part 5" or whatever it was.

Read my lips. Not gonna happen.

[quote]She was not a great interviewer as far as I could see and I’m not a fan of hers, but he was an ass. Even if you find her trivial and dumb, just hold it together for a few minutes. It was cringe watching it.

She's not great, but she's better than Laverne Cox, so there's that. And it was cringe - she was trying for something, anything to chat him up & he just took the piss out of her no matter what she said. I wish she'd just turned to him & said "well fuck right off then" and turned to talk to the next person. Not *that* would be an interview worth watching.

Not in the mood for your shit r317. NOT in the goddamn mood!

[quote]Does it make him the big bad man who must be cancelled?

Oh, for fuck sake. Who in the hell even suggested that? You're just downright silly. It's funny how people here are saying those of us questioning his behavior are "triggered." WTF aren't we allowed to say what he did was classless and tacky without being accused of trying to "cancel" him? His choice of profession is one where you show up to these dumb awards and get asked dumb questions. Just be gracious to the dim fat broad. It takes no effort to fake being charming since he does it for a living.

One-hundred-percent what R327 said. No one but no one said he should be cancelled.

[quote] Any gay men would have responded like ol’ Hugh

Speak for yourself.

She is, R329.

I would’ve responded to the camera after he left and said, “and that was the ever-cheerful and verbose, Hugh Grannt. Back to you, Jim.”

R325, yes and if she had treated him in kind or even just said "OK well clearly you're not in the mood, so I'll let you go," plenty of his defenders would instead be calling her a bitch and saying how unprofessional she behaved.

[quote] it's been recognised

Limey cunt=R319.

And those actors make millions of dollars, r278. He’s a millionaire and couldn’t do what was expected in a civil society. All he had to do was be polite for 2 minutes.

first of all, she asked, who do you want to win? He answered it politely, no one in particular. I mean, it was a rude, cunty question. This caught him off guard.

I do not think he is being paid to model anything that night either. It was his suit. So she fucked up. Okay, she fucked up. Save it, you look sharp tonight and enjoy your evening.

[quote] I mean, it was a rude, cunty question. This caught him off guard.

Hardly, R335. They're always asked, "Who are you rooting for?" It's a fairly easy and unobjectionable a question to answer.

If you want everyone to be fake, unctuously positive and obsequious to the business, you might as well clone a couple well known cunts who do that, and be done with it.

No one said obsequious, R337. Just don't be a cunt.

Being a cunt is second nature to Brits, isn't it?

they are cutting off the interview. He said it was nice being there and bit of vanity fair though. Then, she cunty says it is all about the parties. She is awlful. She is not a decent interviewer. It is not his fault. You can see he is then trying to politely end it. She is making a fool out of herself. I cannot believe they are circulating this. It is her. She is not interviewing well.

His degree of cuntiness seems to be the crux of the disagreement, here.

Obviously you didn't make the suit yourself.

I'm rooting for Martin Short, okay? Are you twats happy now???

Hugh ate a meatball sandwich right out in class AND was passing out notes all along the red carpet!

Forget Angela, he probably thought the interviewer was a crack whore. WTF was she wearing, and what was with her black granny panties on the outside?

[quote] Then, she cunty says it is all about the parties. She is awlful.

Oh, dear, R340.

I kind of like cunty as an adverb.

She is full of awl.

The tramp looked like she was an extra from Bold and the Beautiful, modeling something from Brooke's Bedroom line.

It's funny because she actually thinks she is a good interviewer. She isn't. Why are they circulating this?

sorry. agree with him and his demeanor. she was awful and stupid and made no sense

You can be fat OR stupid. Not both.

Who cares? Cannot believe people are analyzing this to this extent.

Maybe Hugh Grant was put off by the fact that this woman still looked as if she hadn't gotten dressed yet.

She was a wearing a half-open dressing gown over her bra and panties!

Grant was flummoxed!

R353, I imagine that 90% of the posts have been produced by a handful of users - you could count them on one hand.

[quote] Who cares? Cannot believe people are analyzing this to this extent.

And yet, here you are R353, having made your way through the thread.

I thought we were just having fun, here.

R353 hasn't been laid in the last decade. He's earned the right to be a pissy queen.

Hugh was probably trying to have a piss and get to his seat and kept being grabbed by reporters asking the same crap. He seemed totally fine.

[quote] She was doing nothing but be typical of those types of vacuous interviews.

Only her witless questions were below the utterly stupid bottom.

Isn't this who he is though? He always seems uncomfortable in everything he does.

R153, I was referring to their sense of humor in general, but when he quotes Thackeray during a bit that embodies vapidity then the observation holds.

I don't blame Ashley Graham for not getting Grant's reference to Vanity Fair-- which, as has been pointed out, is not to Thackeray's novel but to The Pilgrim's Progress. In Bunyan's allegory, Vanity Fair is "an ancient thing, of long standing, and a very great fair":

[quote]Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not. And moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind. Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false-swearers, and that of a blood-red color.

The poor dear has ADD, dyslexia and no formal education to speak of. She's tall, upbeat and smiles widely, though.

Cate Blanchette was forced to endure the awkwardness of this and managed to get through it without 👁 rolling. She's an Aussie, laid back and self deprecating.

The bitch is a plus sized model. That qualifies you for that job? The questions were inane, just as bad as the ones from Laverne Cox. Get real professionals to do the job and maybe you will get proper answers.

This fat stupid whore was dumb and untalented.

Team Hugh

I doubt that Ashley came up with the questions herself. Grant could have dumbed down his responses in accordance with the inanity of the situation but he strikes me as rather prickly.

[quote] The bitch is a plus sized model. That qualifies you for that job? The questions were inane, just as bad as the ones from Laverne Cox. Get real professionals to do the job and maybe you will get proper answers.

Miss me, bitches?

[quote] but he strikes me as rather prickly.

He's really just a prick, R368.

I miss Joan Rivers on the red carpet

I miss my red carpet.

[quote]It was ALWAYS quite stupid and vulgar to ask that question, who are you wearing?

Celebrities are lent gowns and jewels to wear on the red carpet in exchange for the publicity it generates. Hence, the need for detailed explanation and the " Best Dressed" lists. The questions are necessary to get the plug in.

He's such an unlikeable asshole. No wonder his career dried up.

Not everyone. This is why the interviewer needs to know what question to ask the person in front of you. He said it was his.

i see it as she was rude to him. Is she in terrble or something? The video is not doing her any favors.

[quote} The video is not doing her any favors.

Nor him, R376.

Americans also get annoyed at fake behavior, such as showing up to an event and acting like you're too good to be there. Or agreeing to a red carpet interview and being annoyed you're being asked vapid questions.

I don't dislike Hugh Grant, but he needs to take himself less seriously. He's only an actor. Just own it and stop being so apologetic for being a successful actor in Hollywood. He's no better than the Ashley Grahams of the world.

[quote] I am conversant with Thackeray and also with John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, from which the title of the 19th century novel is derived.

[italic]Mary.[/italic]

it is an awards show. I wonder why they don't talk about movies and performances more.

He was fine- droll and funny and way over her head and silly questions.

What “dried up” career? He’s had a number of prestige television miniseries and supporting roles in big movies in his 50s/60s. No worse than Colin Firth.

Hugh was terrific in "A Very English Scandal." Hardly dried up.

[quote] No worse than Colin Firth.

Firth won an Oscar, R382. Old fart Hugh Grant hasn't even been nominated.

He is an ass.

This is how you do red carpet interviews.

Correct link.

Stuttering John was the best candid / red carpet interviewer.

[quote] You're just mad OP, because his nickname is "Huge Grant"

Devine Brown said that Hugh had a tiny cock on Howard Stern.

[quote] He was fine- droll and funny

Said no one ever. Hugh is washed up and isn’t taking it well.

Too bad Ricky Gervais wasn’t in an ear shot of this. He would have made Hugh cry for being such an elitist wanker.

Today, Devine would have been asking the red carpet questions.

[quote]I am conversant with Thackeray and also with John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, from which the title of the 19th century novel is derived.

What an interesting conversation that must be.

R16 You have a fucked up idea of what 62 years old looks like. No way does Hugh Grant look 72. Your post says more about you than it does him.

Trying to be objective as possible, I think he was annoyed to have to talk to her because he has a superiority complex. And he probably didn’t feel the compulsion to worship a half-dressed oversized woman of color, like any American actor would.

His matter-of-factness and refusal to fawn absolutely threw this woman who is used to being called a goddess and queen and what have you. I think she handled it pretty gracefully.

But who is she?

^ She is a plus-sized model, known for being on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. She has a lovely, natural-looking face and unlike Bella Hadid, no sign of plastic surgery. If she were slimmer, she’d be on the same level of looks as a ‘90s top model.

She’s not a good interviewer, though. Like many models, she didn’t develop beyond the superficial.

I’d still eat his ass all night long.

Hugh is hated by everyone. The British media is ripping him to shreds for acting like an elitist asshole again. Poor thing looks 80 and aged out of pretty boy roles. He’s a bitter slob.

It’s because he has a tiny dick.

R393, does't thou enjoy pick'd meat? Or wouldst thou see A Man in the clouds and have him speak with thee?

He obviously wanted to politely leave. Something must have been happening. The interviewer should have the skills to have a short and sweet interview.

R399 Er, no. You poor deluded cow.

He certainly was a smug and pale but tasty little tart. He had his fun for decades.

[quote]He obviously wanted to politely leave. Something must have been happening. The interviewer should have the skills to have a short and sweet interview.

The entire interview is 50 seconds long.

The thread should be closed after R399's comments. That's the correct interpretation of the situation.

Hugh gave us Maurice, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary.

He is a film legend.

And he acts like a superior prick, R407. That detracts from everything he's accomplished.

Rupert Murdoch hates hugh grant. Murdock owns the British tabloids rags (daily mail) and also owns Fox News. Murdock hacked into Hugh's phone. There was a break in at hugh home as well, linked to Murdock.

I despise Rupert Murdoch. I like hugh grant.

Hugh Grant went against the Conservative Party (tory party) in Britain, very vocally. He campaigned for Labor Party Candidates. Hugh Grant stated, voters should ‘do everything we can’ to stop a Conservative government

I am sorry this is a hit job against Hugh Grant. The shit Murdoch always has done to him. Murdoch owns Fox News and Daily Mail, a British tabloid rag.

Can't we despise both Murdoch and Grant, R409?

Which posh Brits do American tolerate? If I were drunk I might lick old Hugh's shitter.

What a load of made-up horseshit R406 & R399.

Sounds like you are the bitter slobs who everybody hates.

R289

Some men do it the old-fashioned way: They wear their own bespoke suits.

R413 is Hugh Grant. Hi Hugh, you obnoxious bastard.

R399 Fuck off away from here until you get your eyes tested. He does not look 80 you prick. Not everybody has teeth like piano keys and a face full of Botox and fillers. Get out of your shitty rented room once in a while and take a look at what real people look like.

R406 Speak for yourself and not for the rest of us.

R417, those are just tongue-in-cheek comments. You must be new here.

Of course, good manners means putting up with dull people without being impolite. So, a lapse of etiquete on his part.

But I'm still team Hugh. It was a complete mismatch between his cogent observations (his "vanity fair comment" was perfect) and old-gent prickliness and her inane blather. She's famous for being pretty and chunky and is standing there in her underpants. I mean, come on.

Some of you seriously think this is a hit job on Hugh Grant because of his politics?

Man, something for today's gratitude journal.

Grant's work has been good since he aged out of pretty boy love object roles. He was wonderful in a Very British Scandal. Like many handsome men, he has shown himself to be a great character actor once age takes him out of the romantic lead roles.

R421, I thought he was very good in “A Very British Scandal”, too. And that thing with frozen-faced Kidman where he plays the dastardly husband.

I’m reminded of what some minor royal said: “It’s not my job to coddle people”. Perhaps not, but it doesn’t hurt to be gracious and kind. It doesn’t cost you anything.

However you characterize it, Grant was seemingly being purposeful that night. I do call it rude, as shallow as that girl was but she was just doing a job.

"Yet amidst the continuing success of his revitalised career are continued suggestions that Grant the man is difficult, to put it mildly. Often, he is the first to admit his bad behaviour. In a recent interview with Total Film, he said that, on the set of Dungeons and Dragons: “I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one. I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better. Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of grovelling.” He then summarised the matter with a typical joke: “I did a Christian Bale”, he remarked, alluding to the notoriously fiery actor’s temper tantrum on the set of Terminator: Salvation.

However, Grant himself has acquired a reputation over the years for dealing with those he finds tiresome with distinct impatience. The Oscars interview may have demonstrated this to spectacularly public effect, but it is of a piece with a story recounted by The Fence magazine, in which the actor was said to remark to a part-time Christmas tree seller that his job was “s---”, that buying trees was “a waste of time” and refused to pay full price, before saying, when it was time to write down his name on the label: “Well, you know that of course.”

While the former tree salesman recalled: “It made my skin crawl”, those who were not present might find something bleakly amusing in the idea of a multimillionaire, world-famous actor lambasting an unfortunate festive worker and attempting to get a discount in the process. Somehow it is hard to imagine, say, Colin Firth doing so.

Perhaps Grant could have been more gentlemanly and forthcoming to Graham at the Oscars. It would not have killed him to be pleasant, polite and witty; after all, anyone well-known appearing at the ceremony knows that they are likely to be interviewed, and it would not have been beyond his abilities to come up with some suitably droll one-liners, delivered charmingly.

But it is also quite clear that, at the age of 62, the self-described scrotum-faced actor is weary of being nice to people. Many will sigh and tut at his public rudeness, and they are entitled to. Many others, meanwhile, will secretly wish that they had the chutzpah to behave in such a fashion when in an uncomfortable situation, and this take-no-prisoners, I-don’t-care attitude is why Hugh John Mungo Grant, erstwhile rom-com leading man, continues to enthral and fascinate, long after most of his peers have long ceased to be remotely interesting. "

The above article at R423 left out the moment where Grant examined the tree once delivered and found that the label read CUNT FACE.

[quote]And he probably didn’t feel the compulsion to worship a half-dressed oversized woman of color

What color would that be?

[quote]Murdoch owns Fox News and Daily Mail, a British tabloid rag.

Murdoch owns The Sun, not the Daily Mail.

Outstanding, R424. I had a good laugh. If only it were true.

Although i have some mixed feelings (if he hated it so much he shouldn’t have been there) i am mostly on his side. Her response to his vanity fair comment (the concept, not the book) was inane and he still didn’t comment. Also, asking a man in a tuxedo what is he wearing is plain stupid (it is always stupid but more in the case of men). And asking him about a movie he’s in for 30 seconds is either ignorant, or stupid or both.

Finally, everybody talks constantly (here and elsewhere) how phony and out of step from reality the oscars are. But when someone challenges it even in this minor way he is completely vilified.

He was not in the film Glass Onion for just 3 seconds as he claimed. He's being willfully obtuse and contrary.

The person asking the questions was being obsequious though.

High Grant isn't an intellectual. He just has a British accent. "Vanity Fair" is an old book. But it's also an easy, entertaining book. And one that's assigned in secondary school fairly often. I don't go to places and act like a prick just because I read "The Scarlet Letter" in tenth grade.

Holy hell. 430 posts on this?

Now I feel a bit dim.

R430 Grant graduated with honors from Oxford. Tubby Ashley Graham is a fat, dumbass model.

[quote] R430 Grant graduated with honors from Oxford.

Hence his need to show off with the Vanity Fair comment.

Graham's such a dimwit. "Who are you wearing"? She was asking for it.

Hugh Grant needs to star in a Stan Laurel biopic asap.

He is one uppity bitch considering he paid a hooker 50 bucks to blow him in his car.

it's weird that murdoch keeps circulate this on his tabloids rags.

Hugh Grant was largely responsible for bringing down the News of the Screws. I'm surprised Murdoch hasn't had him murdered.

Vanity Fair, the book, was based on the meaning of vanity fair, it was not invented by Thackeray. The magazine also uses that idea and was used aptly by Grant . It would actually be condescending of Grant to think that it would be completely out of her head, as it is not that very difficult to ascertain. Yet here we are.

R434, Better than Laverne's "What story is your outfit telling?" Even the ever-gracious Austin Butler got annoyed.

I thought his scrotum joke was hysterical on the Oscars. I like his sense of humor.

This Vanity Fair snobbery is bizarre. First of all, at the Oscars of all places, a vague reference to "Vanity Fair" is likely going to be interpreted by anyone at first as a reference to... the HOLLYWOOD magazine that has a very famous annual OSCAR party.

Aside from that, the novel is not one of the great must-read works of literature. I'm sure it's commonly taught in UK schools and is very popular there, but not so in the US. It's a perfectly serviceable novel, but not one that makes someone particularly impressive for having read it or getting the reference. I wouldn't presume much if Grant wasn't familiar with a reference to a tree growing in Brooklyn.

The expression "vanity fair" is similarly not as familiar in the US.

Do we need red carpet interviews? I feel we're ok to proceed without them in the future.

^ Or just keep the status quo that anyone who doesn't like them doesn't have to participate in or watch them.

Hugh could have just kept walking and absolutely no one would have noticed.

Why all these posts about "Vanity Fair?" There was no reference to that in Grant's red carpet interview.

Yes there was, R444. You haven't seen the entire interview.

The Vanity Fair reference is in this video, R444.

Hugh should have turned the tables on Ashley and asked about breastfeeding twins!!!

Hugh Grant despise Rupert Murdoch. Grant testified against Rupert Murdoch in the Britian phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch owns tabloids rags in the UK and Fox News in the USA.

R441 Can you suggest a literary reference that would have been impressive intellectually, yet known to all stakeholders, including Miss Graham and our viewers at home, in the UK and USA, and perhaps anglophones across the globe? And which would have been gracious but deliciously witty? Thanks in advance, hun.

- Graduate of the lesser Ivies and Sorbonne, so not top drawer like you, R441

^ Why are you pretending that it matters, when you've already written this woman off as a clown and an idiot for... being nice and asking lighthearted questions at a meaningless award show. It's the Oscars, not the Nobels, but apparently there's a brand new scholarly requirement for covering the carpet that no one told her about. And it's funny that you mentioned Malala, because she actually played along with Kimmel's "Did Harry spit on Chris?" question just fine. I guess she decided it was sufficient grade above "Who are you wearing?" And because she was so gracious about it, the public reaction was mostly about why Jimmy would ask her such a stupid question, as opposed to why was she behaving as though she was too important for the very event she was attending.

But not Hugh. He's just too real and edgy for silly fluff, unlike that Nobel Prize winner. Not too real or edgy to scoop up some camera time at any opportunity no matter how much he hates it, though!

It is laughable that a reference to vanity fair is being considered scholarly and only for a few literary illuminati, worthy of the nobel instead of the oscars.

It is actually the name of the party/magazine she knows so well but still didnt question why it is so named….

The celebration of her ignorance and how” nice “she was just celebrates the inane, the uncultivated and the mindless status quo (what/who are you wearing). Vanity fair indeed.

Something tells me the Malala Yousafzai bit was scripted.

If anything, there aren’t many places in the world where the expression “vanity fair” would be more apt than at the Oscars.

I thought he was kind of funny, but, at the same time felt bad for her. She did well not to be thrown by his cuntery.

It's a fun, frivolous night. What did he think she was going to ask him? He knows the drill; if he was so above it all, wtf was he even interviewed?

It's one thing to be 'amusing', but the Vanity Fair remark and the eyeroll showed him to be a condescending prick.

I thought we enjoyed the eyerolling of clowns.

Too bad Ashley didn't look at Hugh and reply, "Are you alluding to the magazine, the novel, or the original allegory?"

[quote]It is laughable that a reference to vanity fair is being considered scholarly

No one said that, but keep trying. Your strong ancient eldergay energy is entertaining.

R441, The term "Vanity Fair" is certainly well-known here, as the magazine at least is sold at every check-out line in every major grocery store.

As for the novel, it's been known to be have been taught in public high schools.

But because Thackeray took his title from John Bunyan, I rather think a deeper allusion is scholarly. What I question is how deep Hugh Grant's knowledge goes.

Hugh Grant would never behave like this to, say, Alison Hammond on the BAFTA red carpet. He’d smarm and joke with the best of them. Of course it’s stupid. But he’s attending the Academy Awards promote himself, not as an Oscar nominee because, well, he’s never earned one.

If some asshole like Justin Bieber or Madonna came to a British awards show and treated a genial red carpet interviewer like Rylan or Holly Willoughby like that, the same people saying “you dumb Americans have never heard of Thackeray and don’t understand British humour, innit” would demand their deportation to Meghan Markle’s Montecito mansion.

"Team Hugh" is trying [italic]way[/italic] too hard.

We all saw him roll his eyes. He's a snide little douche, just as he's always been.

Of course to Brits he just appears normal.

He's just embracing the "Victor Meldrew" phase of life

Thanks, R445. The video that the OP posted didn't include that first question or Hugh's "Vanity Fair" response, which I think was just fine. It was his subsequent responses that seemed terse and rude, but maybe that was because he didn't like it that she didn't seem to fully get his "Vanity Fair" reference, which I think is perfectly understandable on her part.

In fairness to the girl, in 2023 most people would have missed the intention of his Vanity Fair reference. He enjoys being a dick. She's vapid. The end.

I don't find it excusable at all R462!

The interviewer's response implied that she might have thought Grant's "Vanity Fair" reference was to the magazine and/or to that movie, even if she is completely unaware of the novel, which again I find understandable and forgivable.

R465 are you sure? I thought she naturally assumed he meant the after party?

Well, yes, the after party thrown by Vanity Fair, the magazine. She's may also be aware that there was a movie of VANITY FAIR released in 2004, although that is almost 20 years ago.

"He must be talking about the party. Or maybe it's a makeup brand I never heard of. I'll just ask him who is wearing. All the old British men like that question!"

Hugh knows she can’t talk back to him because she has a boss. He’s a coward and a fucking idiot. Everyone hates him who’s worked with him. He’s a bitter elitist snob who thinks he’s above it all. It kills him that he aged out of the industry. He has no range. He always played the dopey pretty boy, the same character in every film. If you don’t want to do press, don’t walk the carpet. If you don’t want to go to the Oscars, stay the fuck home.

On her feet all night having to keep the banter upbeat and dumbed down since actors are the dumbest people on Earth. Then she has to interview a cunt of an actor just to be goofed on. What a slob he is. He looks like he rolled out of bed.

[quote] He was fine in this clip.

He obviously wasn’t since the British media is ripping him to shreds.

Even Piers Morgan called him a dickhead.

They aren't.

You have to hand it to her for keeping the questions moving and then got him to be on his merry way. She wasn’t thrown and tried to be kind to him even though he was a pompous ass. She was professional. He’s been in the business for a 100 years and still doesn’t know how to conduct himself.

[quote] They aren't.

They are. It’s been on every show and every newspaper in the UK with people telling horror stories about working with him. I know you can’t read. Sad.

Nice try, R475. The sad insult at the end really bolsters your case. You're such a loser.

Prove it, R475.

I blocked checked R475, a sad, aggressive misanthrope who lashes out at everybody. Nothing civil to say to anybody. But an encyclopaedic knowledge of Madonnna. A sad, aggressive misanthrope. Like Hugh Grant.

Hugh is - and always has been - bitchy. He's notorious for that and beloved. Ashley Graham's a dimwitted fat model. Give me a break.

Hugh Grant was invited to be a presenter and he has a new movie out. She fucked up this interview. Oh well. The reason why this is circulating in the Tabloids is Rupert Murdoch hates him.

[quote] And that thing with frozen-faced Kidman where he plays the dastardly husband.

His acting in the last episode reveal was Elizabeth “I’m so excited” Berkeley level bad

Thanks for the laugh r31!

[quote] British people aren’t as pretentious as Americans.

Because nothing says “honest”, “real” and “down to Earth” like presenting, unnominated, at the Oscars and acting like you’re too good to talk about movies or clothing.

He's doing the British high and mighty dry humor thing. It would've worked better if he hadn't been busted scouting for whores.

High Grant hates Rupert Murdock and so do I.

Hugh Grant - cancelled

people who support Hugh Grant - cancelled

[quote] In Bunyan's allegory, Vanity Fair is "an ancient thing, of long standing, and a very great fair":

But Vanity is a noun and Fair is an adjective. It should be In Fair Vanity.

R472 “even Pierce Morgan”? Are you aware that Grant and Morgan have a long history of publicly attacking each other over political views, phone hacking, etc?

r486 Vanity Fair refers to an actual FAIR. like a County Fair or Carnival, where all the attractions and diversions gratify the ego.

Vanity Fair is a compound noun, you dimwit. The name of "the fair" was "Vanity". VANITY FAIR

R489 So are there other fairs, such as Gluttony Fair, Sloth Fair, Lust Fair, Wrath Fair and Pride Fair?

Of course, r490, you are obviously new in this site.

I see the village idiot has arrived at our snarky bitch fair.

He seemed very Hugh Grant-ish.

[quote]And don’t get me started on that fisted, hesitant walk.

Lol, R18, sounds like Michael Crawford in [italic]Hello, Dolly![/italic]

I've never heard anything bad from cast or crew who've worked with Hugh, can R475 or someone else show what they've found?

R490, Stop. You're embarrassing yourself. Google "Vanity Fair." Be sure to pick the result that says "allegory."

R496 has no sense of humor.

R486 has zero understanding of word usage.

Do you know, r486, that you can pay a fair fare to enter the fair Fair?

R497 has no talent for satire. When it sounds like simple stupidity, it's a big fail.

R498 is all fired up because people don't care that she fancies herself as a scholar.

You're right, r499! But I haven't been the only responder!

All this talk of Hugh Grant, makes me want to watch a Hugh Grant Movie.

1.) Was is your favorite Hugh Grant Movie?

2.) What Hugh Grant Movie should I watch?

[quote] Of course, [R490], you are obviously new in this site.

I am obviously new to Thackeray and The Pilgrim's Progress.

1) About A Boy

2) I couldn’t care less

It doesn't matter, R501. He's cancelled.

I do like "Maurice" though. I'm a sucker for all that English upper class nonsense. It's one of my favorite gay-themed movies.

The trailer for "Maurice".

About a Boy is superb. Paddington 2 - no joke - is a great movie. He's very good playing sneaky, gay politician Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal.

This might sound stupid, but I adore the animated film "The Pirate Movie" and he is note-perfect as the voice of the Pirate Captain.

He's an effective actor when he has the right material.

Although he tends to be self-effacing and dismissive of acting, Grant is quite talented. I personally don't like the big romcoms he was in, such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill, and the Bridget Jones films, although he was fine in them.

Most recently, he was very effective in The Undoing, A Very English Scandal, and Paddington 2. My favorite films with him are About A Boy, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, Impromptu, Maurice, Restoration, Sirens, and An Awfully Big Adventure.

In An Awfully Big Adventure, he plays a vicious, deceptive, talented, and funny director, who has been hired to stage plays in a Liverpool theater in the post-war period. In Impromptu, he's cast as Chopin, a sensitive, sickly composer who is pursued relentlessly by George Sand. In Maurice, he's a young man of privilege, who, unlike the title character, is able and willing to compartmentalize his homosexuality so he can have a conventional life with a family and political career. In Restoration, he's a bitchy portrait painter trying to gain a place at Charles II's court. It's basically a cameo, but he's terrific.

He even makes something of his role in Sirens, which is about a young, recently married minister who travels from England to his new parish in Australia. On the way, he's supposed to talk sense into a scandalous painter who has a virtual harem. Compared to the other characters, he has almost no character arc, he starts out as a kind, intelligent, mild-mannered young man and ends that way. But he's not boring. Anyone can scream and declaim. To hold interest while basically being an observer takes talent.

Grant's very witty and I always look forward to his rare appearances on talk shows.

I'm surprised DL - known the internet over as a cyber meadow of fluffy bunnies, gentle fawns, fragrant spring flowers and peaceful sunshine - isn't unanimously on the side of the snarling, sneering, hooker hiring, unnecessarily unkind dude who gave the stupid fat girl in an ugly dress an unwarranted hard time and only sorry he didn't call her a cunt.

R510

Many people felt sorry for Grant when got arrested with a hooker. There were stories by Hollywood insiders that said he didn't know the private networks through which one hires a prostitute. Compared to the horrors of Me Too, hiring a sex worker and paying her for normal sex is nothing. And it may be hard to believe, but some Black women thought, "Hey, he thinks Black women are attractive. Good for him."

R505

I love Maurice. The last scene with Grant is particularly sad.

R511 Divine Brown became quite a star!

How was he a jerk? He answered her questions and just did not elaborate. I like him. He also was not in the movie very much so his response was very accurate. What am I missing? Is it because he was not overly cordial? Shit, those questions were pretty lame. Team Hugh.

He wasn’t a jerk at all. Most Americans don’t get his very British humor. He seemed normal.

Apparently the fat woman interviewing him is a favorite with reality TV shows' moronic fans. So morons were offended.

R516 lmao, now I get it.

R514

The patronising British humour excuse doesn’t fly because he would not talk to Philip and Holly or Rylan like this on a British the red carpet, he’d tease them for their fluffy questions and not give terse responses and roll his eyes.

She was an idiot. Enough already. He did nothing wrong. It’s not like he called her a fat ass bitch.

R518 all this criticism is so bizarre and ridiculous. It was a 1 minute interview and everyone is critiquing it like he was running for President. He did nothing wrong. No one left crying or offended.

[quote] It was a 1 minute interview and everyone is critiquing it like he was running for President

Nothing else happened on that dreary night for us to gossip about.

Every recipient on that dreary night was dreary!

Give your head a shake, R520. He was a rude asshole who acted like he was too good to be there. He's cancelled.

I’m sorry the woman who interviewed Hugh Grant on the red carpet was completely unprepared. She didn’t know what questions to ask and she was poorly prepared.