He wasn’t considered one of “The Gentlemen” on the set of his recent movie.
Hugh Grant confessed to “having a few tantrums” while filming “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves” in Northern Ireland in 2021.
“I lost my temper with a girl in my eyeline on day one. I assumed she was some executive from the studio who must have known higher,” Grant, 62, told the Day by day Mail in an interview published Saturday.
“Then it seems that she’s an especially nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. Plenty of grovelling…”
He added that he “did a ‘Christian Bale,’” referring to Bale’s expletive-laden rant at cinematographer Shane Hurlbut for walking into the center of a scene to ascertain a lightweight during shooting for 2009’s “Terminator Salvation.” Bale publicly apologized when audio of the outburst leaked.
Grant’s recent movie — set to premiere March 10 at South by Southwest ahead of a March 31 wide release — follows an enthralling thief and a band of unlikely adventurers as they fight to retrieve a lost relic. The project is an adaptation of the favored game “Dungeons & Dragons.”
This isn’t the primary time Grant has exhibited wretched set etiquette, including on “The Day by day Show with Jon Stewart.”
In 2012, Stewart revealed he had banned Grant after interviewing him in 2009 to advertise the Sarah Jessica Parker romcom “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”
“He’s giving everyone sh– the entire time, and he’s a giant pain within the ass,” Stewart recalled, as he claimed that Grant even complained concerning the movie clip that was featured on the show.
Grant admitted the poor behavior, tweeting in 2012: “Seems my inner crab got the higher of me with TV producer in 09. Unforgivable. J Stewart correct to present me kicking.”
He later told Vanity Fair, in 2015: “I did have a tantrum backstage. About every year, I actually have a extremely mega-tantrum, and sadly he witnessed one.”
In a 2020 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Grant revealed how profession troubles affected his demeanor.
“I developed a foul attitude from about 2005 onwards, shortly after ‘Music and Lyrics.’ I just had enough. Then I went back in 2009 and made one other film,” he explained.
“At that time, it wasn’t me giving up Hollywood. Hollywood gave me up because I made such a large turkey with that film with Sarah Jessica Parker.”
He concluded: “Whether I desired to or not after that, the times of being a really well-paid leading man were suddenly gone overnight. It was barely embarrassing but it surely left life free for other things.”
Since “Did You Hear Concerning the Morgans?,” Grant has starred in “Cloud Atlas” (2012); “Florence Foster Jenkins” (2016); “The Gentlemen” (2019); “The Undoing” (2020); and “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (2022), amongst other projects.
