Drew Barrymore had a surprisingly candy response Thursday to her Music and Lyrics co-star Hugh Grant’s criticism of her singing voice. She merely carried out a part of the film’s huge tune, the catchy “Manner Again Into Love,” missed notes and all, utilizing a hairbrush as her microphone.
“Oh, Hugh… bert. Hubert,” she stated, earlier than singing once more, “That is for youuuuuu.”
Earlier within the week, Grant had known as the actress and discuss present host’s voice “simply horrendous.”
It occurred throughout an interview with Wired, when the star of the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves was requested whether or not he had performed his personal singing within the 2007 rom-com, by which Grant performs a washed up pop star who groups with Barrymore to jot down a catchy pop tune for a celeb paying homage to Britney Spears (performed by Haley Bennett). The tune they give you is the catchy “Manner Again Into Love,” which was truly penned by the late Adam Schlesinger. A model of the tune on the official soundtrack is, the truth is, credited to Grant and Barrymore.
“Sure, nicely I do, however I am auto-tuned past perception,” stated Grant who was sitting alongside his co-stars Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez. “Truly, that is not true, I am auto-tuned a bit, however not as a lot as some. Drew Barrymore was in that movie with me and I do not suppose she’d thoughts me saying her singing is simply horrendous.”
With a chuckle, he added, “I’ve heard canines bark higher than she sings.”
Ouch.
“However having stated that, as soon as they tuned her up she sounded method higher than me,” Grant stated, “as a result of she’s received coronary heart and voice and rock ‘n’ roll whereas I seemed like Julie Andrews and I am meant to be rock ‘n’ roll.”
The 2 confirmed final yr, when he appeared on The Drew Barrymore Present, that they’ve remained pals since their film hit theaters. And it seems that their first interplay was when she reached out to him throughout, as he put it, “the darkish days of my Divine Brown scandal.”
“You will all the time have a spot in my coronary heart,” Grant instructed her.
The host talked about then that Grant is “type of a curmudgeon,” which is strictly what he appeared to be Sunday on the Oscars purple carpet, when he had a painfully awkward interview with mannequin Ashley Graham, due to his refusal to reply her questions with quite a lot of phrases. Graham’s personal response, which she gave to TMZ cameras, was, “You already know what, my mama instructed me to kill individuals with kindness. So there ya go.”
