Drew Barrymore Defends Hugh Grant Over Ashley Graham Oscars Interview

• Drew Barrymore defended Hugh Grant’s awkward Oscars interview with Ashley Graham.
• Barrymore said he understood why Graham was “thrown out” by Grant, but said he was just being himself.
• “You fall in love with Moody Hugh,” she said. “He is cheerful and a nice person.”

Drew Barrymore said in an interview with Ashley Graham on the red carpet of this year’s Academy Awards that anyone who thought Hugh Grant was rude didn’t understand his nature.

during a recent segment of “The Drew Barrymore Show” The talk show host weighed in on the controversy over the viral clip of Grant’s excruciatingly awkward Oscar interview with Graham.

At the beginning of the clip re-uploaded to Twitter To Several userGraham was seen standing by Grant and asking a series of questions.

After describing Grant as an “Oscar veteran,” she asked him what he liked most about attending the ceremony. ‘ and added, ‘The whole human race is here. It’s Vanity Fair.’

As an insider previously reported, Grant responded with a few more curt answers to her questions. I asked him if he agreed. labeling him as ‘disrespectful and disrespectful’, and all “Quite weird” and one of them “Worst Oscar Interview Ever”

But Barrymore, who co-starred with Grant in the 2007 romantic comedy Music and Lyric, said Grant’s moodiness was part of his charm.

“If you know Hugh, that’s the way he loves you.” It’s very thrown out,’ and I’m like, ‘No, it’s Hugh Grant,’ so that’s also funny.”

“If you think you’ve got this charming movie star, what you really get is Grumpy Hugh. And you fall in love with Grumpy Hugh,” Barrymore added.

She went on to say that, like Graham, she didn’t understand Grant’s sense of humor when they first started working together.

“It took a second,” said Barrymore. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I love you.’ He is cheerful and a good person,” she concluded.