Hugh Grant says Drew Barrymore’s rendition in ‘Music & Lyrics’ was ‘simply appalling’: ‘I’ve heard dogs barking better than me’

• Hugh Grant has said that Drew Barrymore needed more auto-tuning than him on “Music and Lyrics”.

• He added, “I don’t think he’ll mind me telling him that his singing is terrible.” Wired.

• He added that “once he tuned that out,” his costar “sounded way better”.

Hugh Grant said that theirmusic and lyrics“Costar” drew barrymore More auto-tuning than that was required as her natural singing voice was “simply appalling”.

one in wired video interview Together “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesCo-starring Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez, the actors took it in turns to answer “the most searched questions on the web” about themselves, which included a question about whether Grant actually sang in the 2007 rom-com. Was.

In the film, he played a crippled 1980s pop star who enlists his plant-watering lady (Barrymore) to help him write a comeback hit. The pair regularly sing together as they try to come up with a song for rising pop star Cora (Haley Bennett), who Grant admits isn’t as good on set as she is with the audience. Was.

“Does Hugh Grant Really Sing in ‘Music & Lyrics’?” Paine read out the question, to which Grant replied: “Yeah, well, but I’m auto-tuned beyond belief.”

“Actually, that’s not true, I’m a little bit auto-tuned, but not as much as some,” he continued. “Drew Barrymore was in that movie with me and I don’t think he would mind saying that his vocals are terrible.”

He said, “I have heard dogs barking better than her singing.”

“Oh snap!” Rodriguez said that he and Paine laughed at Grant’s brutal honesty.

However, the “Paddington 2” actor – who has excruciatingly awkward oscar carpet interview Over the Weekend with Ashley Graham – noted that “once they tuned her up,” Barrymore “sounded better than me because she has heart and voice and rock ‘n’ roll while I sounded like Julie Andrews and I mean to be rock ‘n’ roll.”

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Representatives for Barrymore did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Grant had previously spoken of starring opposite Barrymore in the film, which came more than a decade after the two made friends In view of Grant arrest for “disorderly conduct” in In 1995 when he was caught soliciting a sex worker. After the incident, Barrymore sent him a supportive letter and the two became distant friends.

however, speaking Sirius XM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” In 2018, Grant said he believed Barrymore might have changed her opinion of him after working together.

“Drew, I think, hated me a little bit. But I admired him,” he said. “We were completely different people. She was very L.A., and I was a grumpy old Londoner.”

“But the funny thing is, although there was a little tension on the set of that movie, I think we have great chemistry,” he continued. “Sometimes stress makes a good crack.”

Meanwhile, Barrymore said on that own cbs talk show that despite Grant’s “grumpy” outer shell, she thinks he is “so wonderful and he’s so funny,” noting that the actor’s “outrageous” humor allows them to go to some “weird, weird places.” gives.

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