Hugh Grant Mischievously Admits That A Colin Firth Box Office Bomb Is His Idea Of “Perfect Happiness”

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Hugh Grant is once again mercilessly trolling Colin Firth. On the promotion tour for A24’s Heretic, Grant renewed friendly fire towards his Bridget Jones co-star by revealing that his idea of “perfect happiness” is a Firth box office bomb.

Asked by Vanity Fair to articulate his vision of bliss, he replied: “Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.” Grant and Firth have long enjoyed exchanging mischievous barbs in the public domain after starring in Bridget Jones’s Diary together in 2001.

A stunt by Grant went viral in 2022, when the actor sponsored a chair at BAFTA with a plaque dedicated to Firth that read: “In loving memory of Colin Firth.

Not dead yet, but looks it. Sponsored by Hugh Grant.” Meanwhile at BAFTA… pic.twitter.com/qMztO6ergM The pair jousted on the red carpet for the Love Actually premiere in 2003, with Grant interrupting a Firth interview with a dramatic yawn. “I’m never very kind about Colin, but if truth be told, he’s just about the only actor in the world I genuinely like and admire,” he later said, in an apparently earnest moment.