{"id":61570,"date":"2023-12-14T03:53:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/why-hugh-grant-says-he-doesnt-want-to-make-another-romantic-comedy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T03:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:53:36","slug":"why-hugh-grant-says-he-doesnt-want-to-make-another-romantic-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/why-hugh-grant-says-he-doesnt-want-to-make-another-romantic-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hugh Grant Says He Doesn&#8217;t Want to Make Another Romantic Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/hugh-grant\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Grant<\/a><span> is sharing the hilarious reason that he thinks rom-coms are off the table for him moving forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a recent appearance on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/the-drew-barrymore-show\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Drew Barrymore Show<\/em><\/a><span>, the British actor, 63, was asked about how it feels to be in his &#8220;renaissance&#8221; era, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/drew-barrymore\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barrymore<\/a><span>, 48, dubbed his &#8220;Hugh-aissance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Lovely. I told you I got a bit better. I got a little less bad after I had children, got married, got happier,&#8221; he said of having a resurgence following a bit of a break. &#8220;I got too old and fat and ugly to do romantic comedies, obviously, so I got off with more interesting things.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pair starred alongside each other in 2007&#8217;s <\/span><em><span>Music and Lyrics<\/span><\/em><span> and fans have spent years begging them to reunite for a sequel or another project in the same vein. Grant also starred in rom-com classics such as <\/span><em><span>Love Actually, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones&#8217; Diary <\/span><\/em><span>and <\/span><em><span>Four Weddings and a Funeral.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>While Grant may not have such a positive view of himself and hope for any upcoming romantic comedies, the host of the show said she still sees him as worthy of the romantic lead title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny because I don&#8217;t see you that way at all and in fact everybody, after we were together, was like, &#8216;Why are you two not in a film together?'&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span>&#8220;<\/span><\/b><span>Come on then,&#8221; responded the <\/span><em><span>Wonka <\/span><\/em><span>actor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We need to do another one,&#8221; said Barrymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Earlier this year, the actress and TV host responded to her co-star calling her a bad singer by posting a video of herself singing back at him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Grant&#8217;s statement came as he sat down for\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aPNO8cGEM7M\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wired<\/em>\u2018s interview series <\/a><span>where actors and filmmakers answer the web&#8217;s most-asked questions about a person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One question that came up was whether or not Grant really was singing in <\/span><em><span>Music and Lyrics<\/span><\/em><span>, which is when he admitted that he and Barrymore were both edited to sound better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m AutoTuned beyond belief\u2026But not as much as some. Drew Barrymore was in that film with me, and I don\u2019t think she\u2019d mind me saying, her singing is just horrendous. I mean, I\u2019ve heard dogs bark better than she sings,&#8221; he joked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While his <\/span><em><span>Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves<\/span><\/em><span> co-stars Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pine laughed, the English actor clarified that Barrymore still ended up sounding better overall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But having said that, once they tuned her up, she sounded way better than me because she\u2019s got heart and voice and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll. Whereas I sounded like Julie Andrews and I meant to be kind of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll as well,&#8221; Grant added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She responded on social media by singing a snippet of\u201cWay Back Into Love\u201d from the 2007 romantic comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;All I wanna do is find a way back into love \/ I can make it through without a way back into love,&#8221; Barrymore crooned into a hairbrush. &#8220;Oh Hugh\u2026bert. Hubert. That\u2019s for you.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Check local listings for\u00a0<\/span><em><span>The Drew Barrymore Show<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/why-hugh-grant-says-he-doesnt-want-to-make-another-romantic-comedy-216499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Grant is sharing the hilarious reason that he thinks rom-coms are off the table for him moving forward.\u00a0 During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the British actor, 63, was asked about how it feels to be in his &#8220;renaissance&#8221; era, which Barrymore, 48, dubbed his &#8220;Hugh-aissance.&#8221; &#8220;Lovely. I told you I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[513,174,1111,20,815,5000],"class_list":{"0":"post-61570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-drew-barrymore","9":"tag-entertainment-tonight","10":"tag-hugh-grant","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-the-drew-barrymore-show","13":"tag-wonka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}