Maybe Hugh Grant shouldn’t have let 11-year-old Nicholas Hoult choose his new car
IN reunionAwards Insider hosted a conversation between two Oscar nominees who have collaborated on a project before.
Nicholas Hoult was only 11 years old when he starred in the beloved 2002 film About a boy opposite Hugh Grant. At the time, Grant was at the height of his rom-com-palooza career, having starred in Notting Hill And Bridget Jones’s Diary, and with Real love coming out next year.
In the film, Grant plays a carefree bachelor who meets a precocious 12-year-old boy and despite his resistance, they form a relationship. The film became a classic mainly thanks to the appeal of the two main characters. And as they revealed, the couple had a lot of fun together behind the cameras. Grant bought Hoult his first golf clubs as gift wrapped gifts; Hoult says he has to help Grant choose the next car. “I love cars,” Hoult said. “I remember going out and buying car magazines, bringing them to work and saying, ‘I think you should buy this.’” Grant ended up buying an Aston Martin Vanquish. “Actually, it was a bad choice for me. “It collapsed ignominiously during that time,” Grant said.
Since then, Hoult has transitioned to being an adult actor, playing the lead role in the series. X-Men movie, warm, favorite, body and Hulu series Great Emperor. He’s currently in the midst of his busiest year yet, with three films in the awards race: Order, Jury No. 2, And Nosferatu. The trilogy speaks to Hoult’s versatility. In it, he plays a white supremacist being hunted by a detective (Jude Law); a juror finds he may have been the cause of a woman’s death; and a married man (Lily-Rose Depp) is in love with a vampire in Germany in 1838.
From About a boy, Grant has also expanded the scope of his role. In the last few years, he has starred in dark dramas, such as soap operas. undoing, along with playing an Oompa Loompa in 2023 Wonka. This year he plays the main role heresy, a thriller about a reclusive man who is visited by two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The film was a big hit in Toronto before being released by A24 in November.
They have come a long way since then About a boy, but as Grant and Hoult reveal, that film still holds a special place in their memories. Hoult even admitted that some of Grant’s signature style may have influenced him. The charming couple also talked about the different directors they’ve worked with over the years, how the business has changed and what happens when each of them gets recognized publicly. they.
Vanity Fair: What do you remember about the first time you met?
Nicholas Hoult: Surely this is a screen test for About a boy.
Hugh Grant: Yeah, maybe so baby.
Hoult: “Maybe so dear?”
Grant: That’s what I said.
Hoult: It’s been a while since you called me “sweetie”. [Laughs] I actually don’t remember the screen test part at all, because I think when I’m in a high-stress situation, I kind of panic and don’t understand anything that’s going on. So I don’t have any memories of that other than I know that I had to wear a school uniform, but I didn’t go to a school with a uniform at that time. So I borrowed my mom’s old boat shoes but we used markers to draw them. I remember looking down during the audition and seeing that the ink we used to draw the shoes was smeared on the white socks I was wearing. And I thought, wow, this is a disaster.
