Hugh Grant Calls 'Notting Hill' a 'Sickening' Ending Due to Easter Egg Details

Hugh Grant has chosen the hill he wants to die on: a Notting Hill Easter egg, to be exact.

The deadpan actor revealed in a Wired video alongside 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' co-stars Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez that he found the end of the romantic comedy 'Notting Hill" from 1999 "nausea" due to a small detail director Roger Michell included.

Notting Hill, which has been considered a classic romantic comedy by many over the years, stars Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, a famous actress who falls in love with the owner of a local UK bookstore William Thacker (Grant) while filming on location. The final scene shows Anna cuddling William on a park bench as he reads a novel, which held special meaning for the late director Michell.

"In that nauseating moment on the bench at the end, I read Louis de Bernières' 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin,' which was going to be his next film," Grant said. "So this is a little Roger Michell joke, may God rest his soul."

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Michell died in 2021 after directing films like 'Morning Glory', 'Hyde Park on Hudson' and 'My Cousin Rachel'.

During the same video interview, Grant teased former co-star Drew Barrymore about her singing voice during the 2007 romantic comedy "Music & Lyrics."

"I'm a bit self-tuned, but not as much as some people," Grant said of his songs in the film. "Drew Barrymore was in that movie with me and I don't think she would mind me saying her singing is just awful. I've heard dogs bark better than she sings."

Still, after "they tuned her out," Grant noted that Barrymore "sounds way better than me because she's got heart, voice, and rock 'n roll."

Grant recently admitted to losing his “cool” on film sets and also went viral for a tense red carpet interview with Ashley Graham ahead of the 2023 Oscars.

“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyes on day one,” Grant told Total Film about filming “Dungeons & Dragons” during production. “I assumed she was a studio executive who should have known better. Then it turns out that an extremely nice local woman was the girl's chaperone. Terrible. Lots of crawling…”

He joked, "I did a Christian Bale," referring to Bale's outburst at 'Terminator: Salvation' cinematographer Shane Hurlbut after walking into a shot.

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