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Hugh Grant's Rude Oscar Interview With Ashley Graham
During a red-carpet interview with Ashley Graham at the Oscars Sunday (March 12), Hugh Grant gave the model nothing to work with. After shrugging with his hand on his hip when Graham called the 62-year-old actor a “veteran of the Oscars,” he kept his standoffish attitude throughout the remainder of the interview.
“What’s your favorite thing about coming to the Oscars?” asks Graham, keeping up a cheerful manner. Grant blinks a few times before replying, “Um… Well, um…” Laughing at her question, the Love Actually star finally came up with the words. “It’s fascinating. The whole of humanity is here. It’s vanity fair.” Slightly taken aback at his response, Graham tried to play along with Grant.
In an attempt to continue the interview, Graham then asks Grant who he’s most excited to see. The actor just says, “No one in particular.” Things get even more awkward when Graham asks about what he wore for the evening and Grant goes, “Just my suit.” Grant says he couldn’t remember the name of the tailor for his tuxedo.
Finally, she went on to ask about his experience filming his cameo in the recent Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. “Well, I’m barely in it. I’m in it for about 3 seconds,” he responded. When Graham asked if he had fun doing the film, he responded, “Almost.”
Who is holding Hugh Grant hostage? pic.twitter.com/PjlXTPFa4m
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) March 13, 2023
Take a look below at what Twitter had to say of the exchanges. But suffice to say, sometimes it’s best to not do interviews if you don’t feel like being interviewed!
And The Oscar Goes To...
And the Oscar for the guy who totally doesn't want to be there goes to Hugh Grant. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Gq6Q3n1EEU
— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) March 12, 2023Wrong Vanity Fair
Hugh Grant and Ashley Graham's red carpet exchange about "Vanity Fair " (he was talking about the 1848 novel about shallow society, she thought he was referring to the 2023 magazine after party) is my favourite #Oscars moment of all time.
— Katherine Singh (@katherineesingh) March 12, 2023Let Hugh Grant Host
Let Hugh Grant host the Oscars, I am deeply serious
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) March 13, 2023The Most Dismissive Interview
Hugh Grant just gave the most dismissive interview I’ve ever seen, it was amazing. I’m paraphrasing but: “I LOVED Glass Onion, didn’t you love being in that?” “Well I was in it for about three seconds.” “But you showed up and had fun!” “Yeah, not really.” pic.twitter.com/uMRrkNk1qQ
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 12, 2023Eye Roll
Anyone catch the eye roll Hugh Grant just gave after this live Oscars interview? Was he mad she called him a “veteran” of the Oscars or was he just mad at the world? pic.twitter.com/VVFAlYpH51
— Kristin Crowley (@KristinCrowley1) March 12, 2023Don't Take The Mic
I don’t understand this from Hugh Grant. If you don’t want to be interviewed, don’t take the mic, smile politely and keep walking. Kudos to @ashleygraham for trying repeatedly to get something interesting out of him. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Q2AeUpPGRi
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 13, 2023Earned Her Paycheck
Wow @ashleygraham just earned her paycheck on that interview with Hugh Grant. She was gracious and persistent through his obvious desire to not be there. Why agree to an interview if you have no interest in participating?? 🙄 #Oscars
— Trevor Scott (@TrevorScottATX) March 12, 2023Literally Died
Hugh Grant described the Oscars as “vanity fair” (an allusion to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) and Ashley Graham thought he was talking about the Vanity Fair party and I literally died pic.twitter.com/6CSXLxdbAH
— 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 (@oldfilmsflicker) March 12, 2023That Was Art
I’m going to need that Hugh Grant ABC interview clipped for me immediately. Please and thank you. That was art.
— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) March 12, 2023Giving Her Nothing
Ok, Hugh Grant be nice to Ashley Grant, he's giving her nothing, I don't like that, he's being shady & making her work way too hard
— bevysmith (@bevysmith) March 12, 2023Painful
Ok that interview just now with Hugh Grant was painful. #Oscars
— Elizabeth Vargas (@EVargasTV) March 12, 2023Has He Always Been A Turd?
Kudos to this beauty doing red carpet reporting who just handled a gloomy, pretentious Hugh Grant with grace & class. Has he always been such a turd? #Oscars #AcademyAwards pic.twitter.com/z3SMObulOT
— Beth Shelburne (@bshelburne) March 12, 2023The Best of Us
Hugh Grant is the best of us. pic.twitter.com/GbiWMkNfWf
— Sam Roberts (@notsam) March 13, 2023Holier Than Thou
Hugh Grant is dismissive and rude to Ashley Graham on the red carpet, being all holier than thou, and then goes on the Oscar stage and makes a scrotum joke. #Oscars2023
— Teri Hart (@TeriHart) March 13, 2023