Hugh Grant says that fashionable movie units are “weird” and “sad” in comparison with when he first began out within the enterprise.
The Notting Hill actor gave his opinion on the state of on-set life within the current day whereas making an look on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday evening (March 27). The Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves star stated he feels that movie units are “weird” as a result of folks don’t turn into as shut as they used to earlier than the invention of smart-tech.
Grant instructed Colbert: “Films are so weird now. They’re weird because… 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.”
He added: “And, all that stopped because of telephones. Really everyone goes home and looks at Twitter. It’s so sad.”
Latching on to Grant’s ideas, Colbert advised: “So, if there weren’t telephones on set, there’d be more affairs going on?”
“Yeah, I think so,” Grant replied. “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.”
Grant additionally joked that he’s finished so many squats throughout sword preventing for the brand new movie that it’s given him an “incredible ass”.
Grant’s efficiency as a campy conman helped to earn Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves a 4 star evaluate from NME, which said: “This board-game-to-big-screen romp is worth watching for Hugh Grant’s campy conman alone.”
In different information, earlier this month Grant shocked followers by calling the ending to iconic Brit rom-com Notting Hill “nauseating” – whereas additionally explaining a small Easter egg within the scene.