"She is sublime.
I look like a scrotum."
This joke from Hugh Grant, galvanized by his on-stage reunion with Andie MacDowell, sparked the hilarity of spectators at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12, in Los Angeles.
Not enough, however, to make up for the awkward exchange between the actor and Ashley Graham, which occurred moments earlier on the red carpet at the ceremony.
An interaction during which the actor answered in monosyllables to the questions of the model.
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?, began Ashley Graham.
How much fun is it to shoot such a film?”
To which Hugh Grant replied, succinctly and a bit dismissively: "Well, you can hardly see me there, I appear there for about three seconds."
Ashley Graham was not thrown off balance.
“Did you still have fun?” she insisted.
And the actor to retort: “Uh… almost.”
Asked what he was wearing, the actor struck the fatal blow, contenting himself with replying: “My costume.”
Before turning away, raising his eyes to the sky.
A moment of hesitation that has not escaped internet users.
“Is Hugh Grant trying to give the worst interview possible?”, asked one of them on Twitter.
Another, for his part, felt that it was the “most embarrassing moment since the slap” delivered by Will Smith to Chris Rock on the Oscars stage.
“Name something more painful to watch than this Ashley Graham/Hugh Grant interview,” another viewer wrote.
An exchange that underlines, once again, the irreverence of the British actor.
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