Hugh Grant’s latest target is Two Weeks Notice hot dogs: “It blew my ass out”
Hugh Grant recalls his ill-fated run-in with Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs on the Two Weeks Notice set during Late Late Show With James Corden
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Not since Matthew Perry have we seen a press run as magnificent as the one Hugh Grant is currently delivering for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Whether it be beleaguering red carpet interviewers or poking fun at old coworkers, you can guarantee that Grant is going to say what’s on his mind every time he opens his mouth. Grant’s latest flagrant disregard of media training comes from the set of Two Weeks Notice, but it’s not Sandra Bullock who is the subject of his ire.
“In Coney Island, New York, I was shooting a film with Sandra Bullock and at lunch time they all said, ‘Oh, well, you must have a Nathan’s hot dog. They’re famous,’” the actor shares during an interview on The Late Late Show With James Corden. “Right-o, you know, when in Rome. So I went off and had a Nathan’s hot dog and it was the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten in my entire life. So I thought I’ll have another!”
Grant loved those hot dogs so much he ended up eating four in a row. “But what no one explained to me is that there’s some ingredient that has an effect on a digestive system, famously with these hot dogs. So I was, to put it delicately, very late back into the make-up trailer,” he reveals. “And when I got there, they said, ‘Are you OK?’ and I said, ‘Well I’m not sure my Nathan’s hot dogs really agreed with me.’ And it was a Brooklyn make-up girl and she said, ‘What, did it blow your ass out?’ I said, ‘Yes, it blew my ass out, yes.’”
Ah, the great American pastime! Really, though, Grant can’t stop being ever-so-droll every time the camera turns on. Later in the episode, he’s delightfully naughty about co-star Chris Pine choosing to eat cattle testicles rather than name his least favorite Hugh Grant film. For the man himself, it’s an easy choice: “I would happily shred my IMDb page because I specialized in being bad for decades, really,” he said during the game of “Spill Your Guts Or Fill Your Guts.” “As you know, as someone in the industry, it’d be one thing for me to say I was bad, but I can’t bring down the rest of the wonderful colleagues by saying it was bad, so that’s my dilemma.”
However, rather than take a taste of mayonnaise-and-worm shepherd’s pie, he points the finger at The Lady And The Highwayman, a “low budget” film in which he plays a (supposedly) sexy highwayman. “Bad wig, bad hat. I looked like Deputy Dawg,” Grant recalls. “When I’m tense — I don’t know if this happens to you when you’re acting—my voice goes up two octaves. So Deputy Dawg would come leaping out of trees when a character went past and go, ‘Stand and deliver!’ It’s poor.” May the fountain of Hugh Grant Hollywood anecdotes never run dry.
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Man, he’s even charming when he talks about blowing his ass out.
he’s a scat queen for sure.
I think Grant should publicly announce that he’s adding to all his contracts going forward that if he yells at any cast or crew member or says anything rude to them, they’re allowed to slap him with no repercussions. Then we’d get the benefit of his rakish charm alongside knowing that when he acts like an asshole, grips and makeup artists and production assistants all get to slap him.
I love how Americans are losing their absolute shit over Hugh Grant not acting like some over-medicated starlet. It’s beautiful.
Bring on Grumpy Grant.
I agree. This guy is great! American here.
He was in such treacly romcoms, it’s actually pretty refreshing how much of a grump he is in real life.
Master Thespian!
Need a show called Hugh Grant’s Hollywood Bullshit, where he just walks around LA and points out things he hates about working there.“Oh, right, yeah, this enema place – this is the thing now: apple cider vinegar enemas. Caustic liquid forced right up the ol’ tradesman’s. Had a producer try to get me in on these things. Was tempted to tell him to stick it up his arse, but then I was afraid he’d think I was getting into it. If only they stuck the nozzle in his ear, flush some of the shit out of his head.”
So sexism is just your default setting.
Did you just run out of Xanax?
Xanax is for bitches. I’m out here rawdogging reality.
Put Bale on the list.Hell, put everyone lucky enough to get paid obscene gobs of money to stand around looking pretty and hitting their mark on the list.
For every million dollars you get paid, the crew collectively gets to slap you one time. They get to decide how to divvy it up among the crew. If you’re nice, and lucky, none of them might want to slap you!
From what I understand, worse things have been done to his ass
People find this fucknut charming?
DUH! He’s British!
Much has happened since 1992, you see
Yes. Some people enjoy things you might not like. No need for the hissy.
Some people like to eat peanut butter and mayonnaise. That doesn’t mean I have to respect them.
Baby no one cares about earning your respect. You say that like it’s supposed to mean something.
“These days people on films sets are so busy on their phones, they’re not even fucking hotdogs any more.”
Didn’t even recognize Pine.
Can we please stop attributing the word “ass” to Hugh Grant? The make-up girl said “ass”, Hugh said “arse”.
He might’ve said “bum”.
He said arse.
Bum.
Four hot dogs? He’s no Joey Chestnut.
LOL if they, Nathans hot dogs, do have this side affect just imagine the destruction Joey wrecks every 4th of July.
That man suffers for his art.
So does everyone downwind of him!
So, what happened in the movie to Sandra Bullock’s character, had actually happened to him. (If the movie is Two Weeks Notice).
It makes me wonder if they rewrote that scene just to include that bit.Sort of an in joke for the cast and crew.
I actually watched that one. For Alicia Witt. She wasn’t in it enough.
Hugh Grant Gets Ass Blown OutSorry; not neeeeearly jaded enough with my current porn catalog to travel down THAT (or, more apropos, HIS) rabbit hole…