Chris Pine and Hugh Grant hit the red carpet with their co-stars for the premiere of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves held at Zoopalast on Monday night (March 20) in Berlin, Germany.
17.03.2023 - 18:39 / usmagazine.com
Just try her! Drew Barrymore had a delightful response to her Music and Lyrics costar Hugh Grant saying that she’s a “horrendous” singer.
The Notting Hill actor, 62, fielded a question about the 2007 rom-com while participating in WIRED‘s “Autocomplete Interview” with his Dungeons & Dragons costars Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez. “Does Hugh Grant actually sing in Music and Lyrics?” the Star Trek actor, 42, asked the U.K. native in the Monday, March 13, video.
“Well, I do, but I’m Auto-Tuned beyond belief,” Grant replied. “Actually, that’s not true. I’m Auto-Tuned a bit, but not as much as some. Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous. I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”
The Love Actually star added: “Having said that, once they tuned her up, she sounded way better than me because she’s got heart and voice and rock ‘n’ roll. Whereas I sounded like Julie Andrews, and I’m meant to be kind of rock ‘n’ roll as well.”
Barrymore, 48, seemingly didn’t take offense to the clip — but she did clap back by proving her chops. The Never Been Kissed actress sang a bit of “Way Back Into Love” from Music and Lyrics into a hairbrush in an Instagram video shared on Thursday, March 16.
“Oh, Hugh. Bert. Hubert, that’s for you,” the talk show host quipped after singing the tune. In a caption, she added, “#SingForHughGrant JOIN ME.”
Grant has been making headlines all month for his curmudgeonly behavior. Earlier this week, social media users slammed the Two Weeks Notice star for his red carpet interview with Ashley Graham ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, March 12. When the supermodel, 35, asked him who he was rooting for at the ceremony, he replied, “No one in
Chris Pine and Hugh Grant hit the red carpet with their co-stars for the premiere of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves held at Zoopalast on Monday night (March 20) in Berlin, Germany.
Drew Barrymore apparently doesn’t mind that Hugh Grant compared her singing voice to barking dogs.
Grant, 62, was interviewed by Graham on the Oscars red carpet, where many viewers noticed that he gave short answers back to her and seemingly rolled his eyes after it wrapped.When Graham asked the “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” actor what he was wearing, he simply replied, “My suit.”His awkward interview prompted criticism among many — including Piers Morgan.However, Barrymore, 48, had some insight to share in defense of Grant during Friday’s episode of her talk show, “The Drew Barrymore Show.”“I swear, if you know Hugh, like, that is his way of loving you,” Barrymore said during the episode. “I swear, okay, so it’s funny, too, because there’s this thing going around with him and Ashley Graham on the red carpet, and people are like, he’s such a curmudgeon and she’s so thrown.”The talk show host continued, “No, that is Hugh Grant.
Hugh Grant has at least one person in his corner amid the backlash over his awkward AF interview with Ashley Graham!
making things awkward during a red carpet interview with ABC’s pre-show host Ashley Graham.In the now-viral video, things went south when the model-actress missed his joke about the novel “Vanity Fair,” attributing the reference to the magazine of the same name’s famous Oscars after-party. He refused to appease her follow-up questions with more than a few words, answering that he was rooting for “no one in particular” and was wearing “just my suit.” Though the internet accused him of being “shady,” his friend Barrymore wrote it off as a classic Grant moment.“There’s this thing going around with him and Ashley Graham on the red carpet.
Drew Barrymore is standing by her friend Hugh Grant. After the British actor was highly criticized for his viral interview with model Ashley Graham, Barrymore is defending her "Music and Lyrics" co-star. "If you know Hugh, that is his way of loving you," Barrymore explained during her talk show, "The Drew Barrymore Show." "People are like, ‘Oh, he's such a curmudgeon and she's so thrown.’ I'm like, ‘no, that is Hugh Grant.
The View on Thursday (March 16), Grant was asked about his campaigns against the British tabloid press.“Everyone thinks, ‘Oh, well he’s just bitter because he got arrested with a hooker in 1995,’” Grant said.Co-host Whoopi Goldberg interjected: “But you know what, really, who hasn’t?”Hugh Grant on being a longtime critic of the British tabloid press: "These big newspaper owners, largely non-taxpayingnewspaper owners, are living above the law.""No one dares to take them on in Britain because they're so scared of them, especially politicians." pic.twitter.com/r22GFNZcKc— The View (@TheView) March 16, 2023The actor then continued: “But actually it had nothing to do with that because that was never uncovered by tabloids. It was that the bloody police gave everyone the information.
Drew Barrymore is sharing her opinion of Hugh Grant‘s much-talked about interview with Ashley Graham from the 2023 Oscars.
The grumpy to her sunshine. Drew Barrymore came to Hugh Grant’s defense after the actor received negative backlash for his recent interview with Ashley Graham.
Drew Barrymore is speaking up for herself after Hugh Grant insulted her singing in their 2007 film "Music and Lyrics." While promoting his new movie "Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," Grant answered a series of questions based on Google searches of his name, and one of them asked if he really sang in his movie with Barrymore, to which he replied, "Yes, I do, but I'm auto-tuned beyond belief." He then corrected himself, saying, "Actually, that's not true, I'm auto-tuned a bit, not as much as some. Drew Barrymore was in that film with me, and I don't think she'd mind me saying her singing is just horrendous … I've heard dogs bark better than she sings." He did add that "Once they tuned her up, she sounded way better than me because she's got heart and voice and rock and roll, whereas I sounded like Julie Andrews, and I'm meant to be kind of rock and roll as well." His insult toward Barrymore seemed good-natured, and in an Instagram video she made in response, she followed suit.
Drew Barrymore didn’t take Hugh Grant’s recent comments about her “horrendous” singing to heart.
remarks he made at the 2023 Oscars, Grant poked fun at former co-star Barrymore’s singing during a Wired interview alongside his “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” castmates Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez.During the interview, Grant, 62, was answering “the web’s most-searched questions” and was asked if he actually sang in the 2007 rom-com “Music and Lyrics.”The British actor admitted that he does sing, but he’s “auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true.
Drew Barrymore is playfully responding to recent remarks made by Hugh Grant that slammed her singing ability.The 62-year-old English actor recently sat down for an interview with , and reflected on his 2007 romcom with Barrymore, «Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous,» Grant admitted. «I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.»In response, Barrymoretook to Instagram to share a playful video of her singing their duet from the film, «Way Back into Love,» which Grant and Barrymore sang together for the film.«Oh, Hugh-bert, Hubert, that's for you,» Barrymore said after belting out a few lines.
Drew Barrymore is taking the high ground.
Hugh Grant seems to have no problem revealing his candid thoughts, no matter how offensive they may be to others.
Notting Hill “nauseating” while explaining a small Easter egg in the scene.The actor, who plays bookstore owner William Thacker in the 1999 rom-com opposite Julia Roberts, discussed a detail in the film’s ending during a Wired video interview.In the scene, Anna Scott (Roberts) is seen lying on William on a park bench as he reads a specific novel, which carried additional meaning for the late director Robert Michell.“In that nauseating moment on the bench at the end, I’m reading Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, which was going to be his next film,” Grant said. “So it’s a little in-joke from Roger Michell, God rest his soul.”Michell died aged 65 in September 2021.
rude to Ashley Graham at the Oscars, the British actor, 62, is now adamant about offending pretty much everyone else in Hollywood — from “Notting Hill” fans to former co-star Drew Barrymore and even an extra on set.He recently appeared in a Wired interview alongside his “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” castmates Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez.The “Love Actually” alum revealed during the clip how he made fun of Barrymore’s singing during their 2007 rom-com “Music & Lyrics.”“I’m auto-tuned a bit, but not as much as some,” Grant divulged of his singing in the flick. “Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous.
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Music & Lyrics.Grant co-starred with Barrymore in the 2007 film as washed-up pop star Alex Fletcher, who is hired to write music for a popular teenage artist (Haley Bennett).
Not fazed. Ashley Graham revealed whether she took “offense” to Hugh Grant’s lackluster demeanor at the 2023 Oscars after their red carpet interview went viral … and not in a good way.