Hugh Grant says “perfect happiness” is a Colin Firth box office flop

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Hugh Grant has shared his idea of perfect happiness in Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire – and made a cheeky dig at Colin Firth in the process.When asked what his idea of perfect happiness is, Grant 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 worked together in movies including Love Actually and Bridget Jones’ Diary, and over the years have made light-hearted jabs at one another.

In 2022, for example, Grant sponsored a chair at the BAFTAs with a plaque that read, “In loving memory of Colin Firth. Not dead yet, but looks it.

Sponsored by Hugh Grant.”And back at the Love Actually premiere in 2003, Grant interrupted a Firth interview with a deliberate yawn.

He would later admit, however (via Deadline), “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.”Firth told the Evening Standard in 2022, “I get on really well with him, I like the guy, despite his outrageous rudeness about me.“It’s a running joke, and we do it to each other.