Renée Zellweger thinks the grumpiest grump in Hollywood is a bit misunderstood.
On Wednesday, Vogue UK printed a pleasant — albeit sometimes snarky — piece wherein Hugh Grant interviews his “Bridget Jones” co-star along side the discharge of the franchise’s fourth installment, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which can premiere on Peacock on Feb. 13.
Towards the tail finish of their interview, Grant, in predictable vogue, started bemoaning his distaste for many human beings — together with himself.
“You’re right, I’m not very friendly,” Grant ultimately says to Zellweger self-deprecatingly.
However the Oscar winner had a unique perspective of Grant’s “get off my lawn” public persona.
“No! I don’t think that’s true about you at all,” Zellweger mentioned. “I feel like you save your energy for the people that you really, really love and care about, and who know you really, really well. I don’t think you’re curmudgeonly. I think you’re funny. But I don’t think that you suffer superficial conversation. It exhausts and bores you, and you’d rather watch cricket on telly.”
It was solely truthful of Zellweger to offer her opinion of Grant — whom she’s recognized since they labored collectively on 2001’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary” — as a result of earlier within the interview, Grant shared along with her what he’s “always thought” about her.
“Shall I tell you what I’ve always thought of you?” he requested his co-star.
“Do I want to know?” Zellweger requested.
“With a lot of other actors, you think they’re really great and then suddenly you see a little glint of steely, scary ambition and you realise this person would trample their grandmother to get what they want in this business,” Grant defined. “But I’ve never seen that glint coming off you. So either it’s very well disguised or you are quite nice.”
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“I’m actually just very boring,” Zellweger mentioned with amusing. “Meanwhile you’re fascinating, with a vast hidden trove of outstanding skills. You’re hilariously brilliant at everything you hate. And, though you hate humans, you’re a very good and loyal friend. I like you very much. And I love working with you.”
It’s straightforward to grasp how Grant gained his Grinch-like fame, which was ramped up due to a reside interview he gave a number of years in the past.
In 2023, the “Love, Actually” star had a really awkward encounter with mannequin Ashley Graham whereas she was interviewing him on the Oscars pink carpet.
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These “annoying” questions included:
- “Do you have your hopes up for anyone [to win tonight]?” (Grant’s reply: “No one in particular.”)
- “What are you wearing tonight?” (Grant’s reply: “Just my suit.”)
- “Who made your suit?” (Grant’s reply: “My tailor.”)
Graham ultimately hit her breaking level and stop the interview, prompting Grant to seemingly roll his eyes at her.
