Hugh Grant is once again mercilessly trolling Colin Firth.
On A24’s promotional tour HereticGrant renewed friendly fire. Bridget Jones The co-star revealed that his idea of “perfect happiness” is Firth’s box office bomb.
Asked by Vanity Fair To clarify his vision of bliss, he replied: “Drinking a pint of London Pride while chewing Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical disaster and the box office.”
Grant and Firth have long enjoyed trading barbs in the public sphere after their stardom Bridget Jones’s Diary Together in 2001.
A stunt for Grant went viral in 2022, when the actor sponsored a chair at the BAFTA with a plaque dedicated to Firth that read: “In loving memory of Colin Firth. He’s not dead yet, but it seems so. Sponsored by Hugh Grant.
The duo competed on the red carpet Love in real life premiered in 2003, with Grant interrupting an interview with Firth with a dramatic yawn. “I’ve never been nice to Colin, but if the truth be told, he’s the only actor in the world that I really like and admire,” he said later, in a seemingly serious moment: “I’ve never been nice to Colin, but if the truth be told, he’s the only actor in the world that I really like and admire.
In a 2012 interview in Evening StandardFirth was asked if he was friends with Grant. He replied: “I get on well with him, and I like the man, despite his outrageous rudeness towards me.”
Firth added: “It’s an ongoing joke, and we do it with each other. I always hear how I declare that I’m too old to be in movies anymore.
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