Hugh Grant has long been known for making fun of himself. As such, it wasn’t at all out of character when, during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” he did just that while explaining why many of his newer roles have been outside what he was once best known for. “I got too old and fat and ugly to do romantic comedies, obviously,” he mused (via ET). It wasn’t the first time the “Bridget Jones” alum has cracked jokes about his appearance as he’s gotten older. Four years before his interview with Barrymore, Grant expressed the same sentiment, almost word for word, in a roundtable featuring other actors for The Hollywood Reporter.
For what it’s worth, in his interview with Barrymore, his former co-star disagreed with his assessment that his looks disqualified him from playing the archetypal romantic lead. She even said she’d love to do another rom-com with him — and something tells us he wouldn’t rule that out. As Grant boasted elsewhere in the “Drew Barrymore Show” interview, “I love to hate the films I’ve been in, and I do hate some of them, but ‘Music and Lyrics,’ it’s impossible to hate. We’re so good in it, and so charming!”
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Here’s hoping that means he hasn’t completely written off the idea of a return to the rom-com!
