Hugh Grant and filmmaker Richard Curtis have been nice collaborators and delivered hit romantic comedies, together with 4 Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), and Love Really (2003). On the fifteenth Governors Awards, which occurred on November 17, Curtis acquired the honorable Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and Grant himself introduced it.
Earlier than handing his writer-director buddy the celebrated award, the Notting Hill actor shared some humorous moments the duo shared whereas filming. “You’d suppose, given that almost all of his movies had been about love, that he would have been or had a directorial type of mild, delicate, and fluffy. You’d have been fairly improper,” Grant joked.
Some notes the director gave him included his request to present a humorous take or his saying don’t fret, they will minimize across the actor. It will likely be “without end etched on my coronary heart,” Grant mentioned. The actor additionally recalled that his castmates appreciated his 4 Weddings and a Funeral audition, however Curtis didn’t prefer it.
He joked that the producer “and the cash folks” needed him on board, however the one individuals who didn’t need him and took an “on the spot and violent dislike” and did every little thing in his energy to cease him from getting the half was the author. “It’s this a—— who we’re honored to honor tonight,” he joked.
Curtis was honored on the occasion alongside producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who acquired the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In the meantime, Juliet Taylor and the late document producer Quincy Jones acquired the Academy Honorary Awards.
In June, Academy President Janet Yang launched a press release about honoring Curtis, describing the screenwriter and director as a “good comedic storyteller” who has made quite a few charitable efforts embodying the celebrated award.
