Tonight’s The Graham Norton Show sees the host joined by Notting Hill actor Hugh Grant, hospice about his upcoming film The Gentleman in which he plays a tabloid newspaper journalist. For the role, Hugh revealed he got inspiration from a rather surprising source.
Talking about his character, Hugh said: “I play a slime-ball working on a tabloid newspaper.
“I thought it rather witty casting, so I couldn’t resist it.”
“I think I am an extraordinary diverse actor anyway, but it is pretty much 180° from Four Weddings and a Funeral!” Hugh added when asked if he found the role transformative.
He then revealed the surprising source for his inspiration for the role.
“I said to him, ‘Do come in, make yourself at home, I think you know where everything is.’
“They are now mates, so I could use them a bit for research.”
Matthew McConaughey also stars in The Gentleman and joined Hugh on the iconic red sofa where he revealed he picked up a few Britishisms.
“Quite a few,” he said.
“If you work on a Guy Ritchie film, there is a whole new language and you Brits use swear words so eloquently, in so many forms.
“You throw them around in wonderful ways – at the beginning of sentences, in the middle, afterwards, later, everywhere – most are terms of endearment 95 percent of the time!”
Matthew is also now a professor at the University of Texas.
“I actually profess! I started a class there called ‘Script to Screen,” he explained.
