Hugh Grant makes his first Comic-Con with the movie Dungeons & Dragons

Over a 40-year career, Hugh Grant has been a guest at nearly every major film event on the planet. But it's his first time at Comic-Con.

"We tried to come up with Sense and Sensibility," he joked with thousands of people in Hall H at the San Diego Convention Center. "But we were turned away."

He behaves like a Comic-Con veteran, his self-deprecating humor playing perfectly with the audience for a panel for an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves fantasy film.

When the panel moderator wonders if Grant really has been a lifelong D&D fan, one co-star jokes: "I think he mixed it with S&M".

With impeccable comedic timing, Grant pauses before finally saying: "She's not wrong".

He adds, "I've been an enthusiastic dungeon master for a few years now".

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In the movie, he actually plays the villain, Forge. After the panel is over, he confesses that he originally didn't think it would be his kind of movie.

"My agent said: "I'm going to send you this Dungeon and Dragons thing". I thought, "I don't think it's for me dear". And then I read it, and it's really hilarious.< /p>

"The two Jonathans who wrote and directed it must have been very steeped in Monty Python or something. Because it was a really funny script."