Hugh Grant mourns the good old-fashioned on-set hook up
Hugh Grant tells Stephen Colbert his theory as to why no one is shagging each other on film sets anymore
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Hugh Grant operates at a level of candor you simply don’t see in movie stars nowadays. Most of them are so meticulously media-trained that they could deliver a banal talk show anecdote in their sleep. Grant, meanwhile, has spent his Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves press tour giving quotes both curt and curmudgeonly, or sometimes roguishly rude. He’s retained a real DGAF attitude over the years, something that Hollywood simply doesn’t produce anymore.
Something else Hollywood is failing to produce is the classic on-set affair, according to Grant himself. During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Grant lamented the evolution of the entertainment industry. “Films are so weird now. … You know, in the old days, by the end of the second week, you were all getting drunk in the evening and having dinner and falling in love with each other and all that,” the actor said.
The reason that era came to an end is not, as you might think, due to getting woke, setting appropriate boundaries, or a level of skittishness in a post-#MeToo environment. No, according to Grant the reason more actors aren’t having sex with each other is because of their smartphones. “Really everyone goes home and looks at Twitter,” he said. “It’s so sad.”
Colbert questioned whether removing cell phones from the equation would lead to more affairs, which Grant affirmed. “Yeah, I think so. You know, [Quentin] Tarantino bans telephones from sets and quite right too, and the people there, they do all shag each other—or so I’m told.”
Trust Hugh Grant to have the good gossip! There’s one bit of context that must be acknowledged, however. Grant brought up this shortage of shagging in the first place after mentioning that Chris Pine had tried to rope him into an actual game of Dungeons & Dragons, which never panned out. Perhaps the phone addiction prevented them from ever getting together to play—or perhaps Grant finds the younger generation so disappointingly dorky that they’d rather launch a D&D campaign than a torrid affair. Whatever the case may be, it’s clear they just don’t make ’em like they used to.
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Pretty sure that “Hugh Grant is 62 years old” is why 62-year-old Hugh Grant isn’t getting shagged on set anymore.
He’s just miffed that Daniel Craig didn’t want to hook up with him.
Can you blame him?
Which one?
I asked this recently about Jane Fonda, but does Hugh Grant have dementia or is he just at the I’m-so-old-I’ll-just-say-whatever-wacked-out-shit-I-feel-like stage?
Hugh Grant has never really been an upstanding guy over his history – it’s just that the times have changed and he hasn’t.
this is true.
Giving us the finest moment in Jay Leno’s career:“What were you thinking?”
It’s kind of refreshing, actually.
Jane Fonda’s always said what she wanted. I don’t think it’s that wacked out though.
I think it’s the latter but hey, never count out the other.
When you get old enough, you realize that maybe 3 or 4 people give a true shit about you, and that maybe narrows to 2 or 3 by the time you’re over 65. Most people would not pick up your mail, mow your lawn, or visit you in the hospital. Given those numbers, and especially since not a single Internet soul would give a crap if you were being raped in an alley, then why should you give a shit? If you like sex, then you like sex. The people who hate you for it will do NOTHING for you if you changed your ways.
If you’re lucky, you have “fuck you money”. Just enough to isolate you from having to suck everyone’s dick for scraps. But certainly, as one ages, it dawns that 1) nobody cares, 2) everyone criticizes, and 3) nearly nobody forgives.
… are you alright?
This was really bleak until, influenced by you Kinja moniker, I read it in a Sinatra voice, then it was quite amusing.
In the ought-to-be-immortal words of American Dad, “You sound smart like Hugh Grant the movie star, but you’re stupid, like Hugh Grant the person!”
Good one.
Grant has never given a shit, and genuinely doesn’t care about his career – he developed severe anxiety on stage a few years back and all but quit acting for a while.
it’s a good question and we might not find out the answer until it’s too late. Remember, it’s possible that he’s completely nuts and has been the whole time, we’re just lucky that his behavior hasn’t been TOO Piers Morgan/Russell Brand and we should thank our stars for that. But he is getting right up against it now, isn’t he?
“Yeah, I think so. You know, [Quentin] Tarantino bans telephones from sets and quite right too, and the people there, they do all shag each other—or so I’m told.” He may be an asshole, but he’s a very funny asshole.
I should think phones would be banned from any professional movie set. Is there any worse way to ruin a take than (insert your dumb ringtone of choice)?
Django Unchained could’ve used with a few bars of Crazy Frog to lighten things up.
Pretty sure people on set are still sleeping with each other. They just tell him they’re going home.
No.
I was going to say that one of the differences between now and then is that he’s older.
More accurate title: 62 Year Old Actor Hugh Grant Baffled That Actresses In Their 20s Don’t Want To Bang Him
He’s just an old man, standing in front of some girls, asking them to fuck him.
Pretty sure this exact topic has led to many a Jezebel post lately.
Yeah, it may have to do with him not looking like this anymore:
Fred, the huge difference between you and me on the one hand, and Mr. Grant on the other, is that he at least looked like that for a very long time.
I expect he can still get plenty of action, but on-set competition is steeper.
Good point. “God blast and damn that Chalamet!”
Like Ellen?
His umbrella boy though…
We need to get Grant, Daniel Craig, and Brian Cox together for a big ol’ grump-off. I would invite Harrison Ford too, but he’s lightened up the last few years.
Yeah Ford seems like he’s actually enjoying himself a bit these days. He’s trending opposite what you’d expect from an aging guy.
It must be crushing for G/O Media to learn like this that Hugh Grant read none of the breathless coverage of Don’t Worry Darling.
Work hookups are eternal, no matter what your job. Some of us abstain and just get our fun elsewhere but, hey, do whatever you two consenting adults want to do. Until, of course, one files a suit against the other…
Consensual relationships at work are loaded with problems, but are ridiculously fun. Its true.Source: Worked at a AAA game studio. SO much fucking going on during crunch.
I reckon there’s a reason why the expression is “shit where you eat”.
But the reason we say it is because it can be so much fun to do it. Living with your brain in your gonads is something we all need to do once in a while (right? Asking for a friend)
That has been my experience as well.
And the thing about films and stage productions is that they’re ephemeral by nature so it’s not quite as fraught as hooking up with someone you work with at a traditional job. Yes, it’s entirely possible that you’ll work with them again on another project, but in practice it’s not nearly the same vibe.Theatre people, by the way, are absolutely the horniest people on the planet (or at least were when I was still doing stage work).
Ah, memories of the glorious showmance…
This is a true statement.
same. When you’re spending 12-16 hours a day with people…
“Worked at a AAA game studio. SO much fucking going on during crunch.”I can only imagine all the enormous, sweaty nerds fucking each other, covered in Cheetos dust. God it’s getting me so hot.
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Well, we know paying for it didn’t work out for him.
It’s always the smartphones. If you go on public transport today, it’s just a lot of people staring at their phones. 30 years ago, all those people on the bus would be fucking.
He didn’t mention the REALLY good old-fashioned hook up- getting blown by a hooker in parked car.
Better than than a car in motion, no matter how legendary the concept.
Can you please sort out the caption under the video? He said “I Also Have an Incredible Arse”.