Hugh Grant was left baffled when Sky Sports reporter Martin Brundle asked him a very awkward question at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The notoriously “grumpy” actor, who was attending Formula One with his two sons as a guest of Ferrari, was approached by Brundle on the grid on Sunday.
Brundle asked Grant, 65, if fans can expect more seasons of the television show The Gentlemen in the future.
However, Grant never appeared in Netflix’s action-comedy series created by Guy Ritchie, having only appeared in the 2019 film by the same name.
“Are you doing another round of The Gentleman, soon, because I really loved that?” Brundle asked.
Grant looked speechless and paused, before saying: “Well, I did the film of The Gentlemen. I haven't seen the TV series.”
Looking sheepish, Brundle hastily replied, “Oh right, it's really good, you really must.”
He then looked awkwardly to his right and added, “I've got ten seconds left... good to see you on the...grid,” as Grant shuffled off.
While the interaction wasn’t too strained on Grant’s part, the Notting Hill star has a history of being cantankerous during press interviews.
In 2023, he went viral with his two-word replies to US model Ashley Graham at the Oscars.
When Graham asked, “What was it like to be in Glass Onion? How fun is it to shoot something like that?” he retorted: “Well I’m barely in it, I was in it for about three seconds.”
Graham soldiered on as Grant repeatedly looked off-camera, seemingly for someone to intervene.
At another point during the brief chat, she asked, “What are you wearing?” to which Grant responded: “My suit.”
The Love, Actually actor gave another example of his brusque attitude when asked about his experience playing an Oompa Loompa in the film Wonka, the musical prequel to Roald Dahl’s classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
He had multiple cameras directed at his face so that the movie’s animators could render his character’s appearance.
“It was like a crown of thorns. Very uncomfortable,” he said.
“I made a big fuss about it. I couldn’t have hated the whole thing more.”
Meanwhile, in an interview with Elle in 2009, he told his interviewer: “I'm grumpy.
“My mother had a theory about Englishmen: They are permanently all two gin and tonics under par. They need two gin and tonics to become human.”
In 2005 he even took a break from acting after he developed such a “bad attitude” that he wasn’t enjoying his work and was struggling to land roles.
