Dungeons & Dragons’ Hugh Grant Jokes He Was a Dungeon Master Once: It Was ‘More S&M Than D&D’

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British humor! Hugh Grant made his first appearance at San Diego Comic Con for his role in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — and had a lot of fun with some cheeky innuendos.“Well, I was a Dungeon Master,” Grant, 61, said during a group interview with Entertainment Weekly on Thursday, July 21, referencing the player who leads the Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. “But it was more S&M and less D&D.

It’s the English version.”When asked later in the day by a panel moderator if he had any prior interest in the role-playing game before accepting a part in the film, costar Michelle Rodriguez quipped, “You mixed it up with S&M,” before Grant replied, “She’s not wrong.”The Notting Hill star continued, “I’ve been an enthusiastic Dungeon Master for some years now.

That’s a British pastime, [a] national sport almost. I believe that’s why [Francis Daley] and [Jonathan Goldstien] thought of me for this, my reputation.”Grant joined the cast of the upcoming comedy adventure in March 2021, signing on to play villain Forge Fletcher.

When asked why he decided to join the project, the Love, Actually star revealed that he is “notoriously negative” about scripts but “to my astonishment, I was sent a thing that really made me laugh,” comparing the campy action adventure to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, per The Hollywood Reporter, who covered the film’s panel on Thursday.The upcoming film, which also stars Rodriguez, 44, Sophia Lillis, Chris Pine and René-Jean Page, is based on the cult classic Hasbro tabletop fantasy game that first launched in 1974, and follows “a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people,”