Hugh Grant would not assume Donald Trump will likely be remembered for his performing chops.
Throughout an Oct. 4 look on The Graham Norton Show to advertise his upcoming film Heretic, the Wonka actor, 64, joked that the previous president, 78, “all the time wished to be in my stuff” when Trump was talked about.
“He performed a bit half as himself in a romantic comedy I did with Sandra Bullock,” Grant continued, referring to 2002’s Two Weeks Discover. “However the reality is that I do not actually keep in mind him very nicely. The evening he got here, I had a wager with Sandy that I might make the chairman of Warner Bros. cry by 9 p.m.”
“And I used to be fully targeted on that. It is fairly a giant wager. She did not consider I might do it, however I did it,” Grant recalled, including that the chairman was “in floods of tears” by 8:30 p.m.
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“So I am afraid Donald Trump did not actually register,” Grant stated.
When Norton, 61, requested Grant if the previous president was good to him, the actor replied, “All I keep in mind is {that a} day or two afterward I received a name to say, ‘You’ve got been made a member of Trump Nationwide New York,’ ” which Grant disregarded.
“I do not keep in mind him enormously as an individual,” he concluded.
In Two Weeks Discover, Trump and Grant’s character George Wade share a scene the place they chat briefly at an occasion about Bullock’s character Lucy Kelson. Mike Piazza and Norah Jones additionally seem as themselves within the rom-com.
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Although Trump served as president from 2017 to 2021, he’s additionally identified for his cameo in Dwelling Alone 2: Misplaced in New York. The movie’s director, Chris Columbus, informed Insider in 2020 that as a way to movie on the Plaza Lodge, which Trump owned on the time, the Apprentice host required a cameo.
“Trump stated okay,” Columbus recalled. “We paid the price, however he additionally stated, ‘The one manner you should use the Plaza is that if I am within the film.’ ”
“So we agreed to place him within the film, and after we screened it for the primary time the oddest factor occurred: Individuals cheered when Trump confirmed up on display screen,” Columbus continued. “So I stated to my editor, ‘Go away him within the film. It is a second for the viewers.’ “
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Together with Dwelling Alone and Two Weeks Discover, Trump has additionally appeared in The Little Rascals, Intercourse and the Metropolis, Zoolander and The Nanny.
Heretic hits theaters within the U.S. on Nov. 8.
