Oscars 2023. Hugh Grant with an unusual joke: I look like a scrotum

Andie MadDowell and in 1994 starred together in the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, which gained cult status. Viewers loved the story of the slightly clumsy and clumsy Charles, who is habitually late to weddings and receptions, even when he is a witness himself. Interestingly, the director of the film did not want to cast Grant in the role at first, because he thought the actor was too handsome.

Oscars 2023. Hugh Grant: You have to use creams. I look like a scrotum

At the 95th event, Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell appeared on screen together after a long break. The British actor, who guest-starred in the script-nominated film “Glass Onion”, decided that since he had to present the award in the artistic category, he would also refer to aesthetics in his speech. Hugh Grant was absolutely unfazed. Before announcing the verdict of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with MacDowell, he blurted out:

We are here to raise awareness of the importance of using a good moisturizer and sunscreen. Andie uses it every day and it looks gorgeous, I don’t use it at all and it looks like a scrotum.

The sharp joke was made for a reason. After “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, Hugh Grant became the undisputed king of romantic comedies and the audience’s favourite. For years, he was the main lover of world cinema and played basically different variants of the same character. He himself admitted that at some point he began to take on roles that he no longer should.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter magazine, he confessed that if he had known what he knows now, he would have chosen roles differently. “I think every decision I’ve made has been wrong,” he said.

After “Four Weddings and a Funeral” the world was open to me. I should have picked interesting offers and done other things. Meanwhile, I was repeating myself, playing virtually identical characters, maybe 17 times in a row.

He also admitted that although he was successful in the mid-1990s, he accepted almost every role anyway, because he could not shake the anxiety accompanying him since he was an unemployed actor. “The worse the role was, the faster I agreed,” he said. Grant does not hide that his time as a hero of romantic comedies has already passed:

I’ve gotten too old, too ugly, and too fat to continue playing in them.

Only in recent years has he managed to break with the old image: the actor increasingly plays negative characters and seems to have had a great time on the set of such films as “The Gentlemen” and “The Game of Fortune” (both directed by Guy Ritchie). He also recently had a small role in the Oscar-nominated screenplay “Glass Onion.” His episode caused a lot of emotions among the viewers. He played the role of Philip, with whom the main character Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) lives.

Many people have wondered what kind of relationship they have. While the plot of the film may have implied that the men are in a relationship, it was not explicitly named. Some fans therefore assumed that they were friends or relatives. All speculations were cut off by Hugh Grant himself in an interview with Coolider:

Yes, that’s right, I’m married to James Bond. (…) This is a very small episode. I really don’t know why they came up with it that way, but either way, I thought the first Knives Out was brilliant, so I figured why not? I showed up [na planie] for a few hours.