Hugh Grant

Some found him rude, some found him indifferent — some found nothing wrong with the terse exchange.

"Hugh Grant was incredibly rude to this reporter. If you can't be polite, say no to the interview," "Hugh Grant being brilliant here. When asked if it was fun to shoot "Glass Onion," the Rian Johnson-helmed mystery in which Grant makes a short cameo, he said: "I'm barely in it. When asked if he was excited to see anyone, or had his hopes up for any winners, Grant said he didn't. But it was Grant's quick turn away from Graham and raised-eyebrow expression that stuck out to some viewers.

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid related to Ashley Graham's interview plight with Hugh Grant after previous stints of her own on red carpets.

Attempting to get something out of the interview, she continued: "What are you wearing?" It’s also a problem if the person you interview doesn’t particularly want to give you an interview. "It still must have been fun though, you had fun right?" she then replied but once again the actor mustered up an uncomfortable response and said: "Erm... How fun is it to shoot something like that?” [ITV](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/itv) show aired a clip of Hugh Grant being interviewed by Ashley Graham on the Oscars red carpet.

Hugh Grant was branded rude after he rolled his eyes during a toe-curling interview on the red carpet at the Oscars.

Another posted: 'Ashley Graham deserves on honorary Oscar for putting up with Hugh Grant. Viewers were not impressed with the actor with one tweeting: 'Why was Hugh grant so rude?? Shout out to Ashley for holding up the conversation.

Hugh Grant's viral Ashley Graham interview on the Oscars 2023 red carpet has divided the internet. Was he being rude?

[Oscars](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/oscars-2023-jamie-lee-curtis-memes),” Graham begins dramatically, but even that seemingly innocent icebreaker prompts an awkward laugh as you can see him trying to guess what she actually means. [Academy Awards](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/oscars-2023-jamie-lee-curtis-memes) last night. [At Oscars 2023, Jamie Lee Curtis was our meme queen once again](/culture/article/oscars-2023-jamie-lee-curtis-memes) During a [red carpet](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/oscars-2023-best-dressed-men) interview with Ashley Graham, Grant found himself trapped inside a thousand yard-stare, cue the [Curb Your Enthusiasm](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/curb-your-enthusiasm-season-10) music, kind of encounter. “What is your favourite thing about coming to the Oscars?” she continues, at which point you can actually hear Grant's inner monologue asking himself why he isn't in bed. For Hugh Grant this moment arrived, right on time, at the

The 62-year-old Oscars veteran is being called “rude” and “uncooperative”.

it's Vanity Fair”, referencing to a 19th century novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (Hugh read English Literature at Oxford), which Ashley (understandably) interprets as a reference to the famous Hugh has a brief cameo in the film, playing the husband of detective Benoit Blanc, who's played by Daniel Craig. [The full list of winners from the Oscars 2023](/article/oscar-winners-2023) [Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/2023-vanity-fair-oscars-after-party), responding, “Yes, it's all about Vanity Fair. The interview goes downhill from there. Despite his golden Hollywood status, social media has not let him off the hook after a clip of the interview, where he shut down successive questions from Ashley.

Many viewers delighted in the star's disdain for the entire spectacle. The other half wondered how Ashley Graham managed to maintain her poise.

The actor is 62 now, and he has had five children since he was 50: life is busy. Then he gestured to himself and said, “Basically a scrotum”. “He’s giving everyone sh*t the whole time, and he’s a big pain in the ass,” the TV presenter Jon Stewart complained, labelling Grant the worst guest he had on his talkshow – and the Englishman was less fun backstage, carping about the promotional clip used. Grant had to fight, he later explained, to convince the producers that he wasn’t, as they perceived him to be, “hoity-toity, up-my-own-arse posh”. The quick turn of phrase had returned as he sent himself up next to the radiant MacDowell, whom he claimed had been using a good moisturiser for the past 29 years. “As long as they make them money, they don’t care what you get up to,” he once said of the Hollywood machine. He could do straight, more than holding his own in the tense scene with Anthony Hopkins at the end of The Remains of the Day. Long after the stars of Rupert Everett and Rupert Graves and poor Julian Sands – missing in a snowstorm since hiking in California in January – had faded, Grant emerged as a rare bankable English star who could be relied on to play the romantic or the out-and-out cad as the occasion demanded. He’s the great survivor of the rush of English actors who seemed to walk straight from the world of Rupert Brooke and into Merchant-Ivory films in the 1980s. ‘Still stunning,’ he said about her before gesturing to himself and saying, ‘Basically a scrotum’ He has elevated the fish-out-of-water routine to an art form, but for once the most loquacious man in showbiz seemed genuinely stuck for words as he offered the barest replies to Graham’s upbeat line of industry questioning. Grant had to fight to convince the producers that he wasn’t ‘hoity-toity, up-my-own-arse posh’.

Experts advise how leaders can deal with questions that may seem beneath them without making people feel small.

“Vulnerability is the buzzword of 2023, and there’s simply nothing more vulnerable than not being ‘perfect’ at work.” “Well, I’m barely in it,” Grant retorted. “Even at a junior level, it’s important to show that you know your worth and you’re not willing to be pushed around or patronized at work—especially if you’re a woman in the workplace,” she adds. “It’s crucial to understand that a junior’s question will come from a place of less experience and possibly knowledge,” Cotton says while advising leaders actively listen and frame their responses in “an encouraging manner so that the person is educated, rather than belittled.” “Everyone has a part to play in their industry, right from those at the top, to those at entry level, a point where all of us, including Hugh Grant, have been,” Trice added. “Yes, he is a big star and maybe having to talk to the press might seem like a task as times, but it kind of goes with the territory, and it’s also about his personal brand and reputation,” she says.

Loose Women's Ruth Langsford and Katie Piper both took issue with Hugh Grant's 'mean' responses but Janet Street-Porter said she 'loved' it.

“If that’s how you feel, don’t do them. “She was obviously squirming there and he was being mean. You’re not there to do an in depth interview. Attempting to get something out of the interview, she continued: "What are you wearing?" How fun is it to shoot something like that?” "It still must have been fun though, you had fun right?"

Hugh Grant gets the Oscar for biggest grump with a "vanity fair" interview with Ashley Simpson that immediately goes viral.

I'm in it for about three seconds." "Well, I'm barely in it. On stage, Hugh extolled the virtues of using a good moisturiser before gesturing at Andie and saying "still stunning", before pointing to himself with a dismissive "basically a scrotum". it's vanity fair". Ashley either mistook Grant's comment for a nod to the showbiz magazine and its notorious after-show Oscars party, or was having a bit of fun with Hugh herself when she replied: "Oh, it's all about Vanity Fair, yes that's where we let loose and have a little bit of fun." Asked about his favourite thing about coming to the Oscars, Grant mumbled and bumbled through his answer, saying that "the whole of humanity is here...

The Academy Award for most awkward red carpet interview at the 2023 Oscars goes to ... Hugh Grant and Ashley Graham.

“No one in particular.” Who made his tuxedo? “Hugh Grant steps forward to be interviewed at the Oscars, then gives most awkward, painful interview ever,” tweeted former NBCUniversal executive Mike Sington. It’s ‘Vanity Fair,’” Grant responded, chuckling and raising his eyebrows. “You know what, my mom has told me to kill them with kindness, so there you go,” Graham said. “Ugh, it’s fascinating. [Jared Christopher tweeted](https://twitter.com/JaredLChris/status/1635107391476989952) that Grant had “the greatest Red Carpet interview of all time.” [cringe-worthy](https://twitter.com/InLessThan30/status/1635073784205168640) enough, the exchange concluded with Graham asking Grant about his brief appearance in Rian Johnson‘s [“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-29/netflix-glass-onion-janelle-monae-talks-about-plot-twists) My tailor.” “Um, I can’t remember. [ceremony](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-03-12/oscars-2023-winners-list), Grant stopped by [Graham’s spot on the red carpet,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RWralYpElI) where she asked him about his “favorite thing about coming to the Oscars.” [ share of memorable moments](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-03-13/oscars-2023-must-see-moments-highlights-takeaways), but the “Love Actually” actor’s pre-show chat with Graham made the internet rounds Sunday and split viewers. “Kudos to Ashley Graham for trying to get him to talk and being a pro.”

Ashley Graham rolled with the punches during her awkward Oscars exchange with Hugh Grant, and she's carrying on with just as much grace afterward ... take a ...

All you can do is your job and try to get some engagement -- and she certainly attempted ... As our cameraman pointed out -- and Ashley agreed -- you can't control how someone else is going to react. and you could argue Hugh didn't. In other words, she took the high road ... who did not provide any easy answers on the red carpet for the relatively standard softball questions AG was lobbing his way. Ashley Graham On Hugh Grant Interview ...

His career sits atop a pyramid of others, even lowly showbiz journalists, who could not do the same without risking their jobs.

It is fine for Grant to break the rules, but his career sits atop a pyramid of others – production staff, runners, caterers, agents, publicists and, yes, showbiz journalists – who could not do the same without risking their jobs. To be rude in such circumstances is, in a nutshell, very unfair. It is all too easy for those at the top of an industry to “skewer its norms” by being rude to those at the bottom. In fact, Grant actually chose to accept a role presenting awards at the Oscars. A video clip of Grant being rude to his red carpet interviewer at the Oscars last night has gone viral, and plenty think it shows him in a good light: skewering the banality of showbiz journalism. Next, the interviewer, the American model Ashley Graham, tried a question about who might be up for an award (the Oscars, Hugh was sensing, was some sort of awards “ceremony”).

Model Ashley Graham was on red carpet (or, this year, champagne carpet) duties for the official Oscars feed, and tried a few innocuous underarm pitches to Grant ...

When the shoe is on the other foot we like to see ourselves not as party-poopers as such, but a dose of reality in unreal scenarios. It's not much of a surprise that there was an instinctive move to protect one of the most conspicuously English Englishmen around – a defender of the oh-crikey-blimey school of Englishness – against being dragged just for calling a vacuous moment out for being vacuous. The idea that Britain is the blasé older brother to America's extremely earnest younger sibling is one we like over here. There are a fair few Americans who thought it was funny, and a fair few Brits who thought Grant was being a prig. Rolling Stone magazine summed up the American response in a tweet: "Why stop to do an interview on the red carpet if you’re going to be a dick on live TV?" Model Ashley Graham was on red carpet (or, this year, champagne carpet) duties for the official Oscars feed, and tried a few innocuous underarm pitches to Grant when he passed by.

Ashley Graham and Hugh Grant had a painfully awkward red carpet interview at the 2023 Oscars / Academy Awards: Watch it here.

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. The model was presenting during ABC’s Oscars pre-show, and stopped Hugh on the red carpet to ask him a couple of questions about the evening ahead. She tried!" "And the Oscar for Best Actress goes to Ashley Graham telling Hugh Grant 'it was nice to talk to you'," one person wrote, while another put, "I don’t understand this from Hugh Grant. [best in movies and film](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/netflix-tv-shows-films-documentaries/) from the last year where celebrated.

Piers Morgan has slammed Hugh Grant for his awkward Oscars interview with model Ashley Graham. Ms Graham asked the 62-year-old actor a series of question on ...

If you don't want to talk to the press, if you are bored by it all, don't do the carpet! Gary Lineker has challenged Twitter and Elon Musk over a threatening message sent to his son in the... You don't roll your eyes and walk away."

The model has finally responded to her now-viral interview with Hugh Grant on the Oscars red carpet.

[seeming 'rude' and 'dismissive'](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a43290719/hugh-grant-rude-ashley-graham-red-carpet-interview-backlash/) while speaking with the model during a red carpet interview. [Ashley Graham](https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/celebrity-style/g36540374/ashley-graham-style/)'s insanely awkward ABC pre-Oscars programme interview with [Hugh Grant](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a43290719/hugh-grant-rude-ashley-graham-red-carpet-interview-backlash/). [TMZ](https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/13/ashley-graham-hugh-grant-oscars-red-carpet-interview-reaction-response/). In a clip that has since gone viral, Grant can be seen giving brief, awkward answers to [Graham](https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/celebrity-style/g36540374/ashley-graham-style/)'s questions as the model worked hard to keep the conversation flowing. [2023 Oscars](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/g36221774/oscars-moments/) were filled with news-worthy moments, from Michelle Yeoh's historic win, Rihanna's epic performance and [Tems' view-blocking cloud dress](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a43291857/tems-oscars-dress-reaction/) to the sweet moment that [Lady Gaga rushed to help a photographer who fell on the red carpet](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a43287879/watch-lady-gaga-help-photographer-oscars-2023/).

Hugh Grant repeatedly rebuffed Ashley Graham during an Oscars red carpet interview, but she says she channelled her mother's advice to "kill people with ...

His eye roll at the end was obnoxious!" One Twitter user wrote: "Man makes bone dry, acerbic comments, with references to classical literature, in response to bland questions. [Oscars](https://news.sky.com/topic/oscars-5844) was, Grant replied: "It's fascinating. It's Vanity Fair." The clip of the interview between Graham and Grant quickly went viral, with many calling his replies "rude" while others said the questions were "lazy". Ashley Graham has responded to her excruciating red carpet interview with Hugh Grant, in which the actor rebuffed her questions and appeared to roll his eyes.

People are divided on this one!The Oscars were on Sunday night, and British movie star Hugh Gran...

[March 12, 2023] Some people argued that this was just dry British humour and Hugh Grant was giving her honest responses. "So tell me what was it like to be in Glass Onion?” she asked, adding: “It was such an amazing film. How is it to shoot something like that?” [March 13, 2023] Kudos to

Ashley Graham has responded to the viral clip of her interview with Hugh Grant on the red carpet at the Oscars ceremony.

Other viewers have asked why Grant attended the event in the first place given that he did not appear enthusiastic about being there. Grant appeared to shake his head in confusion as he walked off away from the camera. "So tell me what was it like to be in Glass Onion?” she asked, adding: “It was such an amazing film.

Piers Morgan has slammed Hugh Grant for his awkward Oscars interview with model Ashley Graham. Ms Graham asked the 62-year-old actor a series of question on ...

If you don't want to talk to the press, if you are bored by it all, don't do the carpet! Gary Lineker has challenged Twitter and Elon Musk over a threatening message sent to his son in the... Gary Glitter should spend the rest of his life in prison after being recalled to jail, the former... You don't roll your eyes and walk away." Boris Johnson will face a televised questioning on whether he lied to MPs about partygate on March... "The only purpose of walking down it is to speak to the media.