Hugh Grant jokes he missed the days of hooking up with co-stars
Hugh Grant has joked that he misses the good old days when actors fell in love and hung out with their co-stars.
The British actor, 62, said that instead of flirting and drinking together, the co-stars are now just going home and ‘Twittering’ after a long day on set.
Speaking on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, he said: ‘Movies are so weird now.
‘They’re weird because, in the old days, by the end of the second week, everyone would get drunk at night and have dinner and fall in love and all that.
‘All of that stopped because of the phones. Everybody go home and watch Twitter. It’s so sad.’
Grant has appeared on the big screen as the leading man in movies since the 1990s, starring in a number of romantic films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Really.
Hugh Grant, 62, told the Late Show With Stephen Colbert: “In the old days, by the end of the second week, everyone would get drunk at night and have dinner and fall in love and all that.”
Grant has appeared on the big screen as the leading man in films since the 1990s, starring in household names like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. He appears here on screen with Julia Roberts (right) in Notting Hill.
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant were together for many years before breaking up. But they actually met on the set of Remando Al Viento in 1988.
The actor met his first wife, Liz Hurley, while they were both acting in the Spanish production Remando Al Viento in 1988. Grant played Lord Byron and Hurley played Claire Clairmont.
They were together for several years, breaking up in 2000, but remain friends.
Among Grant’s wonderful co-stars he’s had the pleasure of working with over the years is Renee Zellweger, who played the namesake Bridget Jones, while Grant played womanizing book publisher Daniel Cleaver.
He then starred opposite Martine McCutcheon in the British sensation Love Actually in 2003. He played the Prime Minister, who falls head over heels for one of his Downing Street employees.
And in the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, Grant plays Charles, and Andie MacDowell plays his love interest, Carrie.
Grant also starred opposite Sandra Bullock in a 2002 romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice.
Grant played womanizing book publisher Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in a promotional photo for the 1999 film Notting Hill.
Grant starred opposite Martine McCutcheon in the British sensation Love Actually in 2003. He played the Prime Minister, who falls head over heels for one of his Downing Street employees.
Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant starred in Bridget Jones
Hugh is currently on the promotional route for his movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Development on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves began in 2013, when executives at Warner Bros. Pictures greenlit a project focused on the long-running role-playing game.
The feature underwent a lengthy development process, during which the likes of Joe Manganiello and Dwayne Johnson joined the project.
Goldstein and Daley were reported to have been in talks to headline the feature in 2019, and it was revealed that they had written a new script for the film the following year.
Chris Pine signed on to appear in the film in 2020, with the rest of the cast being added over the next two years.
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, 1999
The film became a worldwide favorite as it saw American Julia and British Hugh slowly fall in love.
Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell share a passionate kiss in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994
Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant star in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics in 2007
Other figures set to appear in the film include Jason Wong and Regé Jean Page.
It tells the story of a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers, who embark on an epic quest to recover a long-lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run into the wrong people.
Physical production on the film began in April 2021, with filming taking place in both Iceland and Ireland.
After several months of work, the project team finished in August of that year.
Initially, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was supposed to be released in 2021, though its release date was pushed back several times.
The fantasy adventure feature is now scheduled to be released to the public on March 31.
Barrymore and Hugh Grant in Music and Letters