Grant's bad co-star relationships
- Publish Date
- Monday, 15 January 2018, 3:52PM
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Hugh Grant has admitted in a recent interview that he once had a feud with his former co-star Robert Downey Jr.
“[He] hated me,” the Paddington 2 star told People magazine. “We did a thing called Restoration, and he took one look at me and wanted to kill me.”
The British actor told the magazine that he didn't know where the animosity between him and Downey had come from.
“I don’t know. I was so hurt,” he said.
Downey later took to Twitter to clear the air, letting grant know that there weren't any issues between them.
In addition to Downey, Grant admitted that there definitely was some tension between him and Drew Barrymore on the set of the film they both starred in Music and Lyrics.
“I admired her,” he explained. “We were just very different human beings. She was very L.A. and I was a grumpy old Londoner.”
But he did reveal that not all of his co-star relationships were bad. The actor praised working with Meryl Streep but joked that she doesn't have the best eyesight.
“She doesn’t see very well, but she refuses to wear contact lenses. The result is, if we’re doing a scene, I could have been Denzel Washington,” he said.
Along with Streep, Hugh also gushed about his love for his Bridget Jones co-star Renée Zellweger.
“Renee loves me and I love Renee. Well, I mean she’s in the same category as Emma Thompson, in terms of lunacy, but an amazing actor of course, and very generous,” he said. “She once sent me a fabulous huge volume of beautiful photography, including a lot of semi-undressed women. I remember it because I had just landed in Marrakesh … and the book was impounded.”
Although we're unsure what happened on the first two occasions, we'd still love to work with Hugh Grant!
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