WTF is wrong with him? Jesus.
Hugh Grant Acting Like An Asshole Tonight At The Oscars
by Anonymous | reply 513 | March 26, 2023 10:03 PM |
Cranky professional baby daddy. Totally "ok" to ignore him and his mood swings.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 13, 2023 4:40 AM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 13, 2023 4:43 AM |
Her first question was awkward.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 13, 2023 4:43 AM |
[quote] Watch him on inside the actress studio
?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 13, 2023 4:52 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 13, 2023 4:57 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 13, 2023 5:26 AM |
I think the reason he comes off as an asshole is because he answered the questions honestly.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 13, 2023 5:59 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 13, 2023 6:11 AM |
He was okay, IMO. Not playing the game. But why did he even show up.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 13, 2023 6:15 AM |
[quote] 50% plastic and 50% silicone.
That’s what Hugh likes when he’s driving around LA.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 13, 2023 6:16 AM |
Yikes! She was wonderfully professional and he was an ass.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 13, 2023 6:17 AM |
Dopey LA broads do fellatio better than they do conversation.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 13, 2023 6:18 AM |
[quote] That’s what Hugh likes when he’s driving around LA.
No, bitch! He wants the real stuff -- ass, titties and brown sugar.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 13, 2023 6:19 AM |
Kudos to the woman interviewing the jerk. She kept it going and ended the interview graciously. He didn't even try.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 13, 2023 6:20 AM |
[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'.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 13, 2023 6:32 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 13, 2023 7:04 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 13, 2023 7:12 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 13, 2023 7:13 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 13, 2023 7:15 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 13, 2023 7:15 AM |
You know how bitchy Brits can be...
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 13, 2023 7:22 AM |
Andy was being stiff.
Have a sense of humor lady, it’s the Oscars.
It’s not the Nobel prize.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 13, 2023 7:23 AM |
Looks like he was being very difficult and trying to be funny at the same time. The cheerful interviewer handled it well.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 13, 2023 7:28 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 13, 2023 7:33 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 13, 2023 7:33 AM |
[quote] And Englishmen do have a 'dry sense of humour'.
Dry sense of humor = no sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 13, 2023 7:46 AM |
Does he not know what his job is? These pampered actors need a reality check.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 13, 2023 7:46 AM |
[quote] Everyone in the UK thought him amusing.
0/10
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 13, 2023 7:47 AM |
Hasn't he always been an asshole?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 13, 2023 7:49 AM |
He’s such a jerk and just oozes baggage.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 13, 2023 7:51 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 13, 2023 7:55 AM |
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,
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 13, 2023 7:55 AM |
R32 That was his only dick moment.
He knew that airhead wouldn’t get it.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 13, 2023 7:56 AM |
He was upset she called him a “veteran”.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 13, 2023 7:56 AM |
There is nothing wrong with Grant's response. He probably wasn't comfortable answering those questions at that moment.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 13, 2023 7:57 AM |
He was talking about the concept of a vanity fair, r32, originally from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 13, 2023 8:01 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 13, 2023 8:03 AM |
It’s Grant’s humor.
This is a fun interview of him and Sandra.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 13, 2023 8:04 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 13, 2023 8:12 AM |
[quote] Ashley Graham.
Is this someone we need to know about?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 13, 2023 8:18 AM |
Being “interviewed” by that retarded bitch with the vocal fry, granny knickers and inane questions is enough to make anyone roll their eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 13, 2023 8:30 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 13, 2023 8:43 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 13, 2023 9:03 AM |
I wish he had gotten cornholed in "Maurice".
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 13, 2023 10:32 AM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 13, 2023 10:57 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 13, 2023 11:15 AM |
This Englishman's two minutes of peevishness provided the only thing of interest from this long tedious night in La La Land.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 13, 2023 11:21 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 13, 2023 11:22 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 13, 2023 11:25 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 13, 2023 11:26 AM |
Didn’t this idiot get busted for getting a blowjob in a car? He’s fugly!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 13, 2023 11:26 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 13, 2023 11:28 AM |
He's English. The world-weary cynicism and nonchalance can grate at times.
His first remark -- "vanity fair" -- does hit the mark.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 13, 2023 11:32 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 13, 2023 11:36 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 13, 2023 11:40 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 13, 2023 11:49 AM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 13, 2023 11:53 AM |
I would love someone to have asked him: “As a later in life Dad, do you dread the day your kids google Divine Brown?”
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 13, 2023 11:59 AM |
[quote]Grant opted into the interview. He could have just said "no."
Could he have been contractually obliged to participate?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 13, 2023 12:05 PM |
What a miserable wanker.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 13, 2023 12:15 PM |
At least we knew who he was.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 13, 2023 12:19 PM |
Hugh - are you still in touch with Divine Brown?
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 13, 2023 12:21 PM |
You're just mad OP, because his nickname is "Huge Grant" and you know you can never have him.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 13, 2023 12:23 PM |
R63 is Hugh Grant.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 13, 2023 12:32 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 13, 2023 12:38 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 13, 2023 12:39 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 13, 2023 12:44 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 13, 2023 12:50 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 13, 2023 1:01 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 13, 2023 1:04 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 13, 2023 1:04 PM |
R71 Right. Hugh Grant, wise mentor of vapid red carpet interviewers.
Puhleez. Quit trying to excuse this dickwad's behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 13, 2023 1:07 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 13, 2023 1:12 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 13, 2023 1:14 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 13, 2023 1:15 PM |
Meh. A lot of these red carpet interviewers are annoying as shit.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 13, 2023 1:15 PM |
Where was the mention of him being a veteran and of Vanity Fair? It wasn't in OP's clip.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 13, 2023 1:16 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 13, 2023 1:18 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 13, 2023 1:20 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 13, 2023 1:20 PM |
He should host next year. With her.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 13, 2023 1:21 PM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 13, 2023 1:23 PM |
He's so, so over the Oscar's bullship. Maybe he just showed up for the grab bag of free shit?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 13, 2023 1:25 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 13, 2023 1:25 PM |
R78/R80 “Hugh! Hugh! C0ke or Pepsi? Boxers or briefs? Anal or oral? Hugh!”
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 13, 2023 1:25 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 13, 2023 1:27 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 13, 2023 1:27 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 13, 2023 1:29 PM |
R86 I get the feeling you haven't been touched - deeply or otherwise - in many, many decades.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 13, 2023 1:31 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 13, 2023 1:31 PM |
R86 obviously doesn't understand how DL works.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 13, 2023 1:32 PM |
A lot of these comments scream FRAU.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 13, 2023 1:34 PM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 13, 2023 1:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 13, 2023 1:38 PM |
R94 Yet here you are, trying to make it about you.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 13, 2023 1:39 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 13, 2023 1:49 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 13, 2023 2:00 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 13, 2023 2:03 PM |
R98 For all the wrong reasons.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 13, 2023 2:04 PM |
And how is that a good thing if the chatter is negative, r98?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 13, 2023 2:05 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 13, 2023 2:08 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 13, 2023 2:10 PM |
Here's how you respond graciously to inane questions:
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 13, 2023 2:12 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 13, 2023 2:16 PM |
R104 that was cringe! I’m suspecting a low IQ is helpful in dealing with such inane questions.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 13, 2023 2:17 PM |
So even a plus sized model has a minus sized brain.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 13, 2023 2:18 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 13, 2023 2:22 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 13, 2023 2:26 PM |
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!!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 13, 2023 2:27 PM |
Good for Hugh. I’m sick of the syrupy phony shut in Hollywood. He doesn’t seem like someone who tolerates idiots.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 13, 2023 2:29 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 13, 2023 2:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 13, 2023 2:36 PM |
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!"
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 13, 2023 2:39 PM |
It’s funny how both Hugh and Angela are getting shit for honest human behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | March 13, 2023 2:44 PM |
Yeah r115 and I read an interview where Gwyneth Paltrow said she milks cows to relax in the evening.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | March 13, 2023 2:47 PM |
Why so pissy R118? It's obvious that he'd rather be elsewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 13, 2023 2:49 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 13, 2023 2:54 PM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 13, 2023 2:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 13, 2023 2:58 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | March 13, 2023 2:59 PM |
You seem to take it personally R121. These are strangers you will likely never meet and this affects you in no way.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 13, 2023 3:00 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 13, 2023 3:02 PM |
If you can tolerate this horrible editing, you’ll see it’s very normal for him.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 13, 2023 3:03 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 13, 2023 3:04 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | March 13, 2023 3:10 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 13, 2023 3:14 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | March 13, 2023 3:19 PM |
I think most of the people complaining about his behavior and who keep bringing up hookers are fraus because no one else cares.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | March 13, 2023 3:21 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | March 13, 2023 3:34 PM |
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.”
by Anonymous | reply 133 | March 13, 2023 3:41 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | March 13, 2023 3:46 PM |
Had they run out good scotch at the open bar? The creaky coot might have been due a bit of social lubrication.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | March 13, 2023 3:48 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | March 13, 2023 3:48 PM |
He's always been a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | March 13, 2023 3:51 PM |
[quote]The appearance of a friendly exchange has more value than any substance
You expect substance from a three minute interview, R52?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | March 13, 2023 3:53 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | March 13, 2023 3:54 PM |
I thought it was hilarious. 😁
by Anonymous | reply 140 | March 13, 2023 3:55 PM |
R139 He knew exactly what he was doing - being an absolute prick.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | March 13, 2023 3:55 PM |
Is anyone else savouring the galactic irony of DL whining about rudeness and bad behaviour?
The planet really can't end soon enough.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | March 13, 2023 3:55 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 13, 2023 3:57 PM |
R139, he rolled his eyes on camera as soon as he was done talking to her.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | March 13, 2023 3:58 PM |
Meh, rude would've been turning the question back on her. What the hell are YOU wearing, and who threw that mess together?
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 13, 2023 3:58 PM |
R145 Yeah, because asking "what are you wearing" is a rude question.
(eye roll)
by Anonymous | reply 146 | March 13, 2023 3:59 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | March 13, 2023 4:00 PM |
It's a rude question when you're wearing that.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | March 13, 2023 4:01 PM |
She’s lucky she didn’t have someone more No bullshit. I wonder what Lauren Bacall would have thought of her inane questions.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 13, 2023 4:02 PM |
True, R149. People who act rude always come off well.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 13, 2023 4:04 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | March 13, 2023 4:04 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | March 13, 2023 4:10 PM |
But there was no clever wordplay from him, R151.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | March 13, 2023 4:11 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | March 13, 2023 4:14 PM |
I love the British sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | March 13, 2023 4:15 PM |
What would Joan Rivers say to him/about him?
by Anonymous | reply 156 | March 13, 2023 4:16 PM |
The interviewer acted like she was interviewing him for some school newspaper. Know your audience Bitch!
by Anonymous | reply 157 | March 13, 2023 4:17 PM |
Americans are so obsessed with being “nice” above anything else. It’s suffocating and boring.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | March 13, 2023 4:18 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | March 13, 2023 4:21 PM |
So being an asshole is British humor.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | March 13, 2023 4:22 PM |
He had to pay a woman to give him a blowjob. ‘Nuff said.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | March 13, 2023 4:24 PM |
It's very important work he's doing, being on a red carpet.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | March 13, 2023 4:25 PM |
Hysterical that gay men (or are they?) bring up ancient history about a blow job. No one gives shit. This isn't 1860 anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | March 13, 2023 4:30 PM |
If he was so clever, he could have found something interesting to say in response to her predictable questions. He couldn't be bothered.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | March 13, 2023 4:31 PM |
[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!
by Anonymous | reply 165 | March 13, 2023 4:33 PM |
R165 And it’s not like he said anything over the fact that she didn’t get the reference.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | March 13, 2023 4:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | March 13, 2023 4:40 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | March 13, 2023 4:40 PM |
Yes, he's a real intellectual.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | March 13, 2023 4:40 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | March 13, 2023 4:40 PM |
R163, who gives a shit about him, period? Or "full stop" as they say in Merry Olde England.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | March 13, 2023 4:41 PM |
His complete irreverence has always been his draw for me.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | March 13, 2023 4:42 PM |
[quote] Good for him.
Good for him for what, R170?
by Anonymous | reply 173 | March 13, 2023 4:42 PM |
[quote] who gives a shit about him, period?
Well you, r171. Rather intensely apparently. Why is that?
by Anonymous | reply 174 | March 13, 2023 4:45 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | March 13, 2023 4:47 PM |
I don't, R174, beyond commenting on what an asshole he is on an Oscars thread. Any other questions?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | March 13, 2023 4:48 PM |
No, R175, she wasn't.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | March 13, 2023 4:48 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | March 13, 2023 5:00 PM |
What should he have asked him, exactly?
by Anonymous | reply 179 | March 13, 2023 5:03 PM |
R176, but you've done it thirteen times.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | March 13, 2023 5:03 PM |
Talking to himself would have made it worse, R179.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | March 13, 2023 5:04 PM |
*What should she
by Anonymous | reply 182 | March 13, 2023 5:04 PM |
You care enough to count my posts, R180?
by Anonymous | reply 183 | March 13, 2023 5:05 PM |
I am fascinated enough by your disorder to, yes, R183.
You're fucking crazy.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | March 13, 2023 5:07 PM |
You also miscounted the first time, R184. And remember you counted my posts, not the other way around.
And you're a fucking cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | March 13, 2023 5:10 PM |
This is who Ashley Graham was going home to last night, so, no, I won't feel sorry for her!
by Anonymous | reply 186 | March 13, 2023 5:12 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | March 13, 2023 5:13 PM |
Hugh who????
by Anonymous | reply 188 | March 13, 2023 5:13 PM |
I have R183 blocked but it's having some sort of psychotic break?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | March 13, 2023 5:17 PM |
I have R189 blocked because she seems to be some kind of troll.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | March 13, 2023 5:19 PM |
The line between banter and shithousing is becoming more nebulous with time, apparently....
by Anonymous | reply 191 | March 13, 2023 5:26 PM |
[quote] shithousing
What's that, R191?
by Anonymous | reply 192 | March 13, 2023 5:32 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | March 13, 2023 5:38 PM |
Really, R193? That's what you LOVE?
by Anonymous | reply 194 | March 13, 2023 5:41 PM |
Right R193?
by Anonymous | reply 195 | March 13, 2023 5:43 PM |
He was refreshing. Her questions were dumb and how he avoided staring at those gargantuan granny panties is a testament to his restraint.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | March 13, 2023 5:43 PM |
[quote] He was refreshing.
Oh, brother. Maybe to a Brit.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | March 13, 2023 5:44 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | March 13, 2023 5:45 PM |
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".
by Anonymous | reply 199 | March 13, 2023 5:54 PM |
That interviewer was such an idiot.
"Who is Thackeray?"
by Anonymous | reply 200 | March 13, 2023 5:55 PM |
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).
by Anonymous | reply 201 | March 13, 2023 5:56 PM |
R199, not all just a clutch of frauen. I'm Southern and totally love his Vanity Fair remark and her subsequent bimbo response.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | March 13, 2023 5:58 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | March 13, 2023 6:08 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | March 13, 2023 6:15 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | March 13, 2023 6:16 PM |
He is awful. Robert Downey Jr. despised him. And Andie was clearly over him last night.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | March 13, 2023 6:17 PM |
Mocking an interviewer on an Oscars red carpet is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | March 13, 2023 6:18 PM |
When did he do a movie with RDJ?
Grant himself admits he's awful. I find him refreshing in his honesty.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | March 13, 2023 6:21 PM |
Andie who?
by Anonymous | reply 209 | March 13, 2023 6:22 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 210 | March 13, 2023 6:22 PM |
He did a movie I've never heard of called Restoration with RDJ. Their feud is well-documented.
Andie MacDowell (sp?).
by Anonymous | reply 211 | March 13, 2023 6:23 PM |
Damn you all are obsessed with him
210 posts on some random interview
by Anonymous | reply 212 | March 13, 2023 6:24 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | March 13, 2023 6:26 PM |
Why is he even there? He hasn't had a hit since 1994 - Just like Nirvana!
by Anonymous | reply 214 | March 13, 2023 6:26 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | March 13, 2023 6:27 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | March 13, 2023 6:28 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | March 13, 2023 6:29 PM |
When everyone you work with has a problem with you, you're the problem.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | March 13, 2023 6:31 PM |
R214 you could ask that about half the people there every year. Nicholson showed up year after year after year for no reason.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | March 13, 2023 6:32 PM |
But Nicholson was for years a big star, often in movies that were nominated, unlike Grant.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | March 13, 2023 6:33 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | March 13, 2023 6:35 PM |
Touched a nerve, I see, r215.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | March 13, 2023 6:36 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | March 13, 2023 6:36 PM |
Don't think so highly of yourself, R215. You're a flabby asshole, not a gaping one. Even as an asshole you're overrated.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | March 13, 2023 6:38 PM |
She should’ve told him to have a Divine (Brown) night at the end
by Anonymous | reply 225 | March 13, 2023 6:39 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | March 13, 2023 6:44 PM |
R225 the Vanity Fair comment sailed over her head and you think she's witty enough to come up with that?
by Anonymous | reply 227 | March 13, 2023 6:46 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | March 13, 2023 6:46 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 229 | March 13, 2023 6:46 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | March 13, 2023 6:46 PM |
R228, you can cunt all you want. Keep going. Eventually you'll get sick of listening to yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | March 13, 2023 6:48 PM |
I almost wish I didn't have the shrieking Karen blocked. Her quoted comments are comedy gold.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | March 13, 2023 6:48 PM |
Yet he's still working R230.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | March 13, 2023 6:49 PM |
He paid for a blowjob. That’s the only way he can one.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | March 13, 2023 6:50 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | March 13, 2023 6:51 PM |
[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?
by Anonymous | reply 236 | March 13, 2023 6:52 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | March 13, 2023 6:53 PM |
I have R232 blocked, but I'm sure I'm missing nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | March 13, 2023 6:58 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | March 13, 2023 6:58 PM |
R239, he has five children with two different women, so I'm sure he feels that way.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | March 13, 2023 7:01 PM |
Being grumpy is his self-admitted schtick.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | March 13, 2023 7:10 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | March 13, 2023 7:12 PM |
Well that cow interviewer (what the fuck is she wearing?) deserves crumbs. How dumb is she?
by Anonymous | reply 243 | March 13, 2023 7:13 PM |
Everyone loathes Chevy Chase.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | March 13, 2023 7:17 PM |
He's on an Oscars red carpet. What does he expect--questions about EM Forster?
by Anonymous | reply 245 | March 13, 2023 7:17 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | March 13, 2023 7:19 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | March 13, 2023 7:23 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | March 13, 2023 7:25 PM |
It kind of looks to me like he had the mic shoved in his hand before he knew what happened.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | March 13, 2023 7:27 PM |
He knew where he was, and how red carpets work.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | March 13, 2023 7:28 PM |
I'm pretty sure that red carpet interviews aren't mandatory for attending an awards show.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | March 13, 2023 7:29 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | March 13, 2023 7:32 PM |
I guess being a dick on Hollywood Boulevard is better than getting arrested for getting your dick sucked on Hollywood Boulevard
by Anonymous | reply 253 | March 13, 2023 7:41 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | March 13, 2023 7:47 PM |
I’m loving that Hugh Grant has triggered and annoyed so many cunts.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | March 13, 2023 7:49 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | March 13, 2023 7:50 PM |
It quite funny R255.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | March 13, 2023 7:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | March 13, 2023 7:53 PM |
Has he paid for a blowjob recently? Ugly fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | March 13, 2023 7:56 PM |
Triggered frau alert @R259. They seem particularly obsessed with a blow job from 25 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | March 13, 2023 8:02 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 261 | March 13, 2023 8:05 PM |
The above took place several years ago, btw.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | March 13, 2023 8:06 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | March 13, 2023 8:06 PM |
I guess it's the small things for R255.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | March 13, 2023 8:10 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | March 13, 2023 8:21 PM |
Zzzzzzzzzzz...
by Anonymous | reply 266 | March 13, 2023 8:28 PM |
That’s not acting!
by Anonymous | reply 267 | March 13, 2023 8:38 PM |
I wasn't impressed by Hugh here but the sheer CUNTERY of R258 still made me laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | March 13, 2023 9:02 PM |
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!!!”
by Anonymous | reply 269 | March 13, 2023 9:14 PM |
He's so clever! He's read Vanity Fair! We LOVE British cunts because WE'RE British cunts!
by Anonymous | reply 270 | March 13, 2023 9:19 PM |
Don’t assume the fat cunt’s gender R269
by Anonymous | reply 271 | March 13, 2023 9:20 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 272 | March 13, 2023 9:32 PM |
Giuliana Rancic is where she ought to be - forgotten.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | March 13, 2023 9:33 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | March 13, 2023 9:36 PM |
Momma Bear Frau Cows are going apoplectic on this thread, triggered, no doubt by the usage of the term, "plus sized model" and "rude."
by Anonymous | reply 275 | March 13, 2023 9:41 PM |
WE LOVE CALLING PEOPLE FRAUS BECAUSE WE'RE BRITISH AND WE CALL ALL WOMEN COWS! WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE BRITISH!
by Anonymous | reply 276 | March 13, 2023 9:43 PM |
[quote] an airhead in La La Land
I enjoyed this airhead being 'abused' at the 2 minute mark.
Grinning like a loon.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | March 13, 2023 9:44 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | March 13, 2023 9:44 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | March 13, 2023 9:45 PM |
Asking a mature British man on the red carpet "Who are you wearing?" is clownish, naive, almost vulgar, and certainly rude.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | March 13, 2023 9:46 PM |
SHE IS OBESE AND RETARDED!!!!!!! KILL HER!!!
by Anonymous | reply 281 | March 13, 2023 9:47 PM |
Hugh should have countered. "I have a question for you. Does the gentleman dress to the right, or the left?"
by Anonymous | reply 282 | March 13, 2023 9:48 PM |
KILL HER! WE HATE FRAU COWS! WE LOVE HUGH! HE'S SO SMART!
by Anonymous | reply 283 | March 13, 2023 9:49 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | March 13, 2023 9:50 PM |
goodwill*
by Anonymous | reply 285 | March 13, 2023 9:50 PM |
But she's a woman and WE HATE WOMEN, R284! FRAUS! COWS!
by Anonymous | reply 286 | March 13, 2023 9:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | March 13, 2023 9:56 PM |
[quote] Does the gentleman dress to the right, or the left?"
Was this person a transvestite?
by Anonymous | reply 288 | March 13, 2023 9:58 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | March 13, 2023 9:59 PM |
Fucker had to pay for a blowjob! lolololololololol
by Anonymous | reply 290 | March 13, 2023 10:01 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | March 13, 2023 10:01 PM |
Things like these really bring out the offended (stupid) women, don’t they? Any gay men would have responded like ol’ Hugh.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | March 13, 2023 10:01 PM |
you can tell he is trying to get away. I think it is dry humor too.
by Anonymous | reply 293 | March 13, 2023 10:01 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | March 13, 2023 10:04 PM |
*completely
by Anonymous | reply 295 | March 13, 2023 10:08 PM |
No, R288--and that was the amazing thing. She was an actual woman, which shocked everyone because he's British.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | March 13, 2023 10:13 PM |
Actually, r11, she wasn't at all professional because it was quite obvious that she hadn't even bothered to watch the film.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | March 13, 2023 10:14 PM |
ah, I stand corrected.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | March 13, 2023 10:16 PM |
He wasn't even talking about the book, but the concept of a vanity fair.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | March 13, 2023 10:16 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | March 13, 2023 10:17 PM |
That was meant for R297.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | March 13, 2023 10:18 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | March 13, 2023 10:20 PM |
A bar, R302? I think he just picked her up in his car.
He's classy, that Hugh.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | March 13, 2023 10:22 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | March 13, 2023 10:23 PM |
R304, he rolled his eyes after it, thinking he couldn't be seen.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | March 13, 2023 10:24 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | March 13, 2023 10:24 PM |
R306, see R305.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | March 13, 2023 10:27 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | March 13, 2023 10:28 PM |
No, R308, none of all that. He was just being an asshole, like he always is.
But yeah, I agree that she's stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | March 13, 2023 10:31 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | March 13, 2023 10:32 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | March 13, 2023 10:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | March 13, 2023 10:36 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | March 13, 2023 10:37 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | March 13, 2023 10:37 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 315 | March 13, 2023 10:39 PM |
Thrown her a bone? He should've thrown her an overcoat.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | March 13, 2023 10:40 PM |
Did Hugh try to pick up Angela Bassett in the parking lot thinking she was a tranny crack whore?
by Anonymous | reply 317 | March 13, 2023 10:43 PM |
This is why Hugh Grant is an asshole. Watch how Martin Short dealt with a truly moronic Kathie Lee Gifford, and see the difference.
by Anonymous | reply 318 | March 13, 2023 10:43 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 319 | March 13, 2023 10:45 PM |
I suspect they'll continue until you get it, R319, which you clearly haven't yet.
by Anonymous | reply 320 | March 13, 2023 10:47 PM |
[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
by Anonymous | reply 321 | March 13, 2023 10:47 PM |
No, R319, I'd also like you to admit you're a stupid cunt as well.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | March 13, 2023 10:47 PM |
But it was the Oscars, and she hadn't even seen "Knives Out Part 5" or whatever it was.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | March 13, 2023 10:49 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | March 13, 2023 10:52 PM |
Not in the mood for your shit r317. NOT in the goddamn mood!
by Anonymous | reply 326 | March 13, 2023 10:52 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | March 13, 2023 10:53 PM |
One-hundred-percent what R327 said. No one but no one said he should be cancelled.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | March 13, 2023 10:56 PM |
[quote] Any gay men would have responded like ol’ Hugh
Speak for yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | March 13, 2023 10:58 PM |
She is, R329.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | March 13, 2023 10:59 PM |
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.”
by Anonymous | reply 331 | March 13, 2023 11:01 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | March 13, 2023 11:02 PM |
[quote] it's been recognised
Limey cunt=R319.
by Anonymous | reply 333 | March 13, 2023 11:06 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | March 13, 2023 11:06 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 335 | March 13, 2023 11:07 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | March 13, 2023 11:10 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 337 | March 13, 2023 11:18 PM |
No one said obsequious, R337. Just don't be a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 338 | March 13, 2023 11:23 PM |
Being a cunt is second nature to Brits, isn't it?
by Anonymous | reply 339 | March 13, 2023 11:23 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | March 13, 2023 11:24 PM |
His degree of cuntiness seems to be the crux of the disagreement, here.
by Anonymous | reply 341 | March 13, 2023 11:25 PM |
Obviously you didn't make the suit yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | March 13, 2023 11:26 PM |
I'm rooting for Martin Short, okay? Are you twats happy now???
by Anonymous | reply 343 | March 13, 2023 11:27 PM |
Hugh ate a meatball sandwich right out in class AND was passing out notes all along the red carpet!
by Anonymous | reply 344 | March 13, 2023 11:28 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 345 | March 13, 2023 11:28 PM |
[quote] Then, she cunty says it is all about the parties. She is awlful.
Oh, dear, R340.
by Anonymous | reply 346 | March 13, 2023 11:29 PM |
I kind of like cunty as an adverb.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | March 13, 2023 11:30 PM |
She is full of awl.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | March 13, 2023 11:33 PM |
The tramp looked like she was an extra from Bold and the Beautiful, modeling something from Brooke's Bedroom line.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | March 13, 2023 11:35 PM |
It's funny because she actually thinks she is a good interviewer. She isn't. Why are they circulating this?
by Anonymous | reply 350 | March 13, 2023 11:38 PM |
sorry. agree with him and his demeanor. she was awful and stupid and made no sense
by Anonymous | reply 351 | March 13, 2023 11:38 PM |
You can be fat OR stupid. Not both.
by Anonymous | reply 352 | March 13, 2023 11:40 PM |
Who cares? Cannot believe people are analyzing this to this extent.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | March 13, 2023 11:46 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 354 | March 13, 2023 11:48 PM |
R353, I imagine that 90% of the posts have been produced by a handful of users - you could count them on one hand.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | March 13, 2023 11:49 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | March 13, 2023 11:50 PM |
I thought we were just having fun, here.
by Anonymous | reply 357 | March 13, 2023 11:50 PM |
R353 hasn't been laid in the last decade. He's earned the right to be a pissy queen.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | March 13, 2023 11:52 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | March 13, 2023 11:54 PM |
[quote] She was doing nothing but be typical of those types of vacuous interviews.
Only her witless questions were below the utterly stupid bottom.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | March 14, 2023 12:02 AM |
Isn't this who he is though? He always seems uncomfortable in everything he does.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | March 14, 2023 12:10 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | March 14, 2023 12:14 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | March 14, 2023 12:18 AM |
The poor dear has ADD, dyslexia and no formal education to speak of. She's tall, upbeat and smiles widely, though.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | March 14, 2023 12:24 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | March 14, 2023 12:29 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 366 | March 14, 2023 12:34 AM |
This fat stupid whore was dumb and untalented.
Team Hugh
by Anonymous | reply 367 | March 14, 2023 1:18 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | March 14, 2023 1:21 AM |
[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?
by Anonymous | reply 369 | March 14, 2023 1:22 AM |
[quote] but he strikes me as rather prickly.
He's really just a prick, R368.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | March 14, 2023 1:25 AM |
I miss Joan Rivers on the red carpet
by Anonymous | reply 371 | March 14, 2023 1:56 AM |
I miss my red carpet.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | March 14, 2023 2:00 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 373 | March 14, 2023 2:43 AM |
He's such an unlikeable asshole. No wonder his career dried up.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | March 14, 2023 2:45 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | March 14, 2023 3:11 AM |
i see it as she was rude to him. Is she in terrble or something? The video is not doing her any favors.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | March 14, 2023 3:14 AM |
[quote} The video is not doing her any favors.
Nor him, R376.
by Anonymous | reply 377 | March 14, 2023 3:16 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | March 14, 2023 4:25 AM |
[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]
by Anonymous | reply 379 | March 14, 2023 4:34 AM |
it is an awards show. I wonder why they don't talk about movies and performances more.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | March 14, 2023 4:40 AM |
He was fine- droll and funny and way over her head and silly questions.
by Anonymous | reply 381 | March 14, 2023 4:49 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 382 | March 14, 2023 4:53 AM |
Hugh was terrific in "A Very English Scandal." Hardly dried up.
by Anonymous | reply 383 | March 14, 2023 4:56 AM |
[quote] No worse than Colin Firth.
Firth won an Oscar, R382. Old fart Hugh Grant hasn't even been nominated.
by Anonymous | reply 384 | March 14, 2023 4:57 AM |
He is an ass.
by Anonymous | reply 385 | March 14, 2023 5:50 AM |
Stuttering John was the best candid / red carpet interviewer.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | March 14, 2023 6:05 AM |
[quote] You're just mad OP, because his nickname is "Huge Grant"
Devine Brown said that Hugh had a tiny cock on Howard Stern.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | March 14, 2023 6:16 AM |
[quote] He was fine- droll and funny
Said no one ever. Hugh is washed up and isn’t taking it well.
by Anonymous | reply 390 | March 14, 2023 6:17 AM |
Too bad Ricky Gervais wasn’t in an ear shot of this. He would have made Hugh cry for being such an elitist wanker.
by Anonymous | reply 391 | March 14, 2023 6:20 AM |
Today, Devine would have been asking the red carpet questions.
by Anonymous | reply 392 | March 14, 2023 6:22 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | March 14, 2023 12:06 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | March 14, 2023 2:10 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | March 14, 2023 10:28 PM |
But who is she?
by Anonymous | reply 396 | March 14, 2023 10:58 PM |
^ 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.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | March 15, 2023 12:09 AM |
I’d still eat his ass all night long.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | March 15, 2023 12:12 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | March 15, 2023 12:16 AM |
It’s because he has a tiny dick.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | March 15, 2023 1:20 AM |
R393, does't thou enjoy pick'd meat? Or wouldst thou see A Man in the clouds and have him speak with thee?
by Anonymous | reply 401 | March 15, 2023 2:30 AM |
He obviously wanted to politely leave. Something must have been happening. The interviewer should have the skills to have a short and sweet interview.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | March 15, 2023 2:34 AM |
R399 Er, no. You poor deluded cow.
by Anonymous | reply 403 | March 15, 2023 2:36 AM |
He certainly was a smug and pale but tasty little tart. He had his fun for decades.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | March 15, 2023 2:40 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | March 15, 2023 3:09 AM |
The thread should be closed after R399's comments. That's the correct interpretation of the situation.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | March 15, 2023 5:41 AM |
Hugh gave us Maurice, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary.
He is a film legend.
by Anonymous | reply 407 | March 15, 2023 5:52 AM |
And he acts like a superior prick, R407. That detracts from everything he's accomplished.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | March 15, 2023 5:58 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 409 | March 15, 2023 6:07 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | March 15, 2023 6:12 AM |
Can't we despise both Murdoch and Grant, R409?
by Anonymous | reply 411 | March 15, 2023 6:21 AM |
Which posh Brits do American tolerate? If I were drunk I might lick old Hugh's shitter.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | March 15, 2023 6:36 AM |
What a load of made-up horseshit R406 & R399.
Sounds like you are the bitter slobs who everybody hates.
by Anonymous | reply 413 | March 15, 2023 6:37 AM |
R289
Some men do it the old-fashioned way: They wear their own bespoke suits.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | March 15, 2023 6:42 AM |
R413 is Hugh Grant. Hi Hugh, you obnoxious bastard.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | March 15, 2023 6:47 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | March 15, 2023 7:04 AM |
R406 Speak for yourself and not for the rest of us.
by Anonymous | reply 417 | March 15, 2023 7:07 AM |
R417, those are just tongue-in-cheek comments. You must be new here.
by Anonymous | reply 418 | March 15, 2023 7:34 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 419 | March 16, 2023 11:29 AM |
Some of you seriously think this is a hit job on Hugh Grant because of his politics?
Man, something for today's gratitude journal.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | March 16, 2023 11:41 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 421 | March 16, 2023 1:29 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | March 16, 2023 2:34 PM |
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. "
by Anonymous | reply 423 | March 16, 2023 2:44 PM |
The above article at R423 left out the moment where Grant examined the tree once delivered and found that the label read CUNT FACE.
by Anonymous | reply 424 | March 16, 2023 9:04 PM |
[quote]And he probably didn’t feel the compulsion to worship a half-dressed oversized woman of color
What color would that be?
by Anonymous | reply 425 | March 16, 2023 9:20 PM |
[quote]Murdoch owns Fox News and Daily Mail, a British tabloid rag.
Murdoch owns The Sun, not the Daily Mail.
by Anonymous | reply 426 | March 16, 2023 9:21 PM |
Outstanding, R424. I had a good laugh. If only it were true.
by Anonymous | reply 427 | March 16, 2023 10:15 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 428 | March 16, 2023 10:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 429 | March 17, 2023 1:31 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 430 | March 17, 2023 1:39 AM |
Holy hell. 430 posts on this?
Now I feel a bit dim.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | March 17, 2023 1:59 AM |
R430 Grant graduated with honors from Oxford. Tubby Ashley Graham is a fat, dumbass model.
by Anonymous | reply 432 | March 17, 2023 2:04 AM |
[quote] R430 Grant graduated with honors from Oxford.
Hence his need to show off with the Vanity Fair comment.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | March 17, 2023 2:08 AM |
Graham's such a dimwit. "Who are you wearing"? She was asking for it.
by Anonymous | reply 434 | March 17, 2023 2:19 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 435 | March 17, 2023 2:23 AM |
it's weird that murdoch keeps circulate this on his tabloids rags.
by Anonymous | reply 436 | March 17, 2023 2:43 AM |
Hugh Grant was largely responsible for bringing down the News of the Screws. I'm surprised Murdoch hasn't had him murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | March 17, 2023 3:17 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 438 | March 17, 2023 3:20 AM |
R434, Better than Laverne's "What story is your outfit telling?" Even the ever-gracious Austin Butler got annoyed.
by Anonymous | reply 439 | March 17, 2023 3:24 AM |
I thought his scrotum joke was hysterical on the Oscars. I like his sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 440 | March 17, 2023 3:28 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 441 | March 17, 2023 3:32 AM |
Do we need red carpet interviews? I feel we're ok to proceed without them in the future.
by Anonymous | reply 442 | March 17, 2023 3:35 AM |
^ 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.
by Anonymous | reply 443 | March 17, 2023 3:38 AM |
Why all these posts about "Vanity Fair?" There was no reference to that in Grant's red carpet interview.
by Anonymous | reply 444 | March 17, 2023 3:40 AM |
Yes there was, R444. You haven't seen the entire interview.
by Anonymous | reply 445 | March 17, 2023 4:18 AM |
The Vanity Fair reference is in this video, R444.
by Anonymous | reply 446 | March 17, 2023 5:08 AM |
Hugh should have turned the tables on Ashley and asked about breastfeeding twins!!!
by Anonymous | reply 447 | March 17, 2023 5:17 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | March 17, 2023 7:15 AM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 449 | March 17, 2023 8:16 AM |
^ 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!
by Anonymous | reply 450 | March 17, 2023 9:05 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 451 | March 17, 2023 9:53 AM |
Something tells me the Malala Yousafzai bit was scripted.
by Anonymous | reply 452 | March 17, 2023 10:29 AM |
If anything, there aren’t many places in the world where the expression “vanity fair” would be more apt than at the Oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 453 | March 17, 2023 10:31 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 454 | March 17, 2023 10:47 AM |
I thought we enjoyed the eyerolling of clowns.
by Anonymous | reply 455 | March 17, 2023 10:59 AM |
Too bad Ashley didn't look at Hugh and reply, "Are you alluding to the magazine, the novel, or the original allegory?"
by Anonymous | reply 456 | March 17, 2023 11:45 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 457 | March 17, 2023 11:48 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 458 | March 17, 2023 11:55 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 459 | March 17, 2023 12:12 PM |
"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.
by Anonymous | reply 460 | March 17, 2023 1:09 PM |
He's just embracing the "Victor Meldrew" phase of life
by Anonymous | reply 461 | March 17, 2023 1:11 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 462 | March 17, 2023 2:07 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 463 | March 17, 2023 2:34 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 465 | March 17, 2023 2:41 PM |
R465 are you sure? I thought she naturally assumed he meant the after party?
by Anonymous | reply 466 | March 17, 2023 2:46 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 467 | March 17, 2023 2:51 PM |
"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!"
by Anonymous | reply 468 | March 17, 2023 3:02 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 469 | March 17, 2023 3:32 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 470 | March 17, 2023 3:34 PM |
[quote] He was fine in this clip.
He obviously wasn’t since the British media is ripping him to shreds.
by Anonymous | reply 471 | March 17, 2023 3:35 PM |
Even Piers Morgan called him a dickhead.
by Anonymous | reply 472 | March 17, 2023 3:35 PM |
They aren't.
by Anonymous | reply 473 | March 17, 2023 3:36 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 474 | March 17, 2023 3:36 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 475 | March 17, 2023 3:37 PM |
Nice try, R475. The sad insult at the end really bolsters your case. You're such a loser.
by Anonymous | reply 476 | March 17, 2023 3:43 PM |
Prove it, R475.
by Anonymous | reply 477 | March 17, 2023 3:44 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 478 | March 17, 2023 3:47 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 479 | March 17, 2023 5:45 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 480 | March 17, 2023 10:00 PM |
[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
by Anonymous | reply 481 | March 18, 2023 3:25 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 482 | March 18, 2023 6:07 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 483 | March 18, 2023 6:34 AM |
High Grant hates Rupert Murdock and so do I.
by Anonymous | reply 484 | March 18, 2023 6:47 AM |
Hugh Grant - cancelled
people who support Hugh Grant - cancelled
by Anonymous | reply 485 | March 18, 2023 7:02 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 486 | March 18, 2023 8:13 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 487 | March 18, 2023 8:31 AM |
r486 Vanity Fair refers to an actual FAIR. like a County Fair or Carnival, where all the attractions and diversions gratify the ego.
by Anonymous | reply 488 | March 18, 2023 9:50 AM |
Vanity Fair is a compound noun, you dimwit. The name of "the fair" was "Vanity". VANITY FAIR
by Anonymous | reply 489 | March 18, 2023 10:06 AM |
R489 So are there other fairs, such as Gluttony Fair, Sloth Fair, Lust Fair, Wrath Fair and Pride Fair?
by Anonymous | reply 490 | March 18, 2023 10:25 AM |
Of course, r490, you are obviously new in this site.
by Anonymous | reply 491 | March 18, 2023 10:34 AM |
I see the village idiot has arrived at our snarky bitch fair.
by Anonymous | reply 492 | March 18, 2023 10:37 AM |
He seemed very Hugh Grant-ish.
by Anonymous | reply 493 | March 18, 2023 10:44 AM |
[quote]And don’t get me started on that fisted, hesitant walk.
Lol, R18, sounds like Michael Crawford in [italic]Hello, Dolly![/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 494 | March 18, 2023 10:52 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 495 | March 18, 2023 11:31 AM |
R490, Stop. You're embarrassing yourself. Google "Vanity Fair." Be sure to pick the result that says "allegory."
by Anonymous | reply 496 | March 18, 2023 12:03 PM |
R496 has no sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 497 | March 18, 2023 12:05 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 498 | March 18, 2023 12:07 PM |
R498 is all fired up because people don't care that she fancies herself as a scholar.
by Anonymous | reply 499 | March 18, 2023 12:15 PM |
You're right, r499! But I haven't been the only responder!
by Anonymous | reply 500 | March 18, 2023 12:23 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 501 | March 23, 2023 2:02 AM |
[quote] Of course, [R490], you are obviously new in this site.
I am obviously new to Thackeray and The Pilgrim's Progress.
by Anonymous | reply 502 | March 23, 2023 3:19 AM |
1) About A Boy
2) I couldn’t care less
by Anonymous | reply 503 | March 23, 2023 4:45 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 504 | March 23, 2023 5:25 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 506 | March 23, 2023 7:57 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 507 | March 23, 2023 2:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 508 | March 26, 2023 9:06 PM |
Grant's very witty and I always look forward to his rare appearances on talk shows.
by Anonymous | reply 509 | March 26, 2023 9:17 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 510 | March 26, 2023 9:33 PM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 511 | March 26, 2023 9:58 PM |
R505
I love Maurice. The last scene with Grant is particularly sad.
by Anonymous | reply 512 | March 26, 2023 10:01 PM |
R511 Divine Brown became quite a star!
by Anonymous | reply 513 | March 26, 2023 10:03 PM |