Hugh Grant arrived at the Dolby Theatre, approached the cheering fans and agreed to selfie requests. Immediately afterwards he began the ritual of the red carpet. There he met the model Ashley Graham, who was presenting the previous Oscars. Since they say that it was a regrettable interview and that he behaved in an unpleasant way, I have looked at it and re-watched it several times.
At the outset, the presenter asks him which movie he would like to see win. Grant tells him that none in particular. Graham asks him another question: "What are you wearing today?" Grant tells him that a suit of his. She believes that this answer leads to a cross-examination: “A suit of yours? Who has done it to you? Wouldn't you have done it to yourself?" Grant replies that she has made it her tailor.
Then Graham asks her how the experience of shooting Daggers in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion has been, and she confesses that she found the film incredible, great: “Was it fun shooting a project like that?” The actor looks as if he doesn't know what to answer and finally says: “I almost didn't show up. I think I appear three seconds. Graham insists: "Yeah, but you show up and you sure had a good time, right?" Grant cuts it off with a curt “almost,” looks both ways, and when she waves him off (“thank you so much, it was great talking to you”), he raises his eyebrows and slides off to the back.
Less handsome, Hugh Grant has been told about everything. Dry, rude, arrogant, uncooperative. What was he to do? There are many so-called journalists who are annoyed that the interviewees do not respond with the topics they would like. Something similar happens with Albert Serra. We have reached a point where it seems that it should be accepted that the supposed interviewers ask stupid questions and that the interviewees do not have the right to answer them in a way that exposes this stupidity.
