Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult had a heartwarming reunion over 20 years since showing within the 2002 rom-com “About a Boy.”
Grant, 64, posted a candy side-by-side of himself with Hoult, 34, evaluating a nonetheless from the film with a photograph of the pair outdoors the fifteenth Governors Awards on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on November 17.
The previous co-stars each attended the star-studded occasion, with Grant delivering a humor-filled speech that honored British writer-director Richard Curtis. Curtis’ credit embrace a few of Grant’s most profitable movies, together with “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
Nevertheless it was Grant’s reunion with Hoult that made headlines.
Hoult was solely 12 years previous when “About a Boy” was launched. He performs Marcus, the awkward little one of a single mother (performed by Toni Collette). His mother has a one-night stand with Grant’s wealthy playboy character, Will, who winds up taking Marcus beneath his wing.
Greater than twenty years later, Grant and Hoult nonetheless seem like thick as thieves.
“We’re cute,” the youthful actor replied to Grant’s photograph on X.
Their impromptu get-together delighted followers and sparked demand for a second “About a Boy” installment.
“Legacy sequel time…?” one fan commented. “Love this. ABOUT A BOY was a brilliant film. Dare I say… sequel?” one other X consumer wrote.
Others commented on Hoult’s spectacular profession.
Since showing on the display screen with Grant, he’s been in plenty of hit motion pictures, together with entries within the “X-Men” sequence, “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Menu.”
“If it wasn’t for your excellent coaching skills in that movie Nicholas wouldn’t have become the great adult he is today. Well done dad,” somebody replied.
One other added: “You’ve both got even better with age. That guitar scene at the school talent show was absolute genius.”
Hoult revealed in 2021 that he and Grant hadn’t stayed in contact after filming “About a Boy,” however he admitted to watching his co-star’s profession from afar.
“In my head, I’m thinking it’s a kind of Hughnaissance, or something,” he stated, per The Guardian.
“He had so much pressure on him [back then], and to see him free of that and just doing these wonderful dramas,” Hoult continued, including, “I had so much fun watching him in Paddington 2, he was wonderful, and then in A Very English Scandal, and I’m about to start watching The Undoing. I’m enjoying what he’s doing at the moment, a lot.”
Whereas he and Grant haven’t appeared on-screen collectively since, Hoult did not too long ago group up with Collette on Clint Eastwood’s “Juror No. 2,” launched in October.
His former film mother gushed about his rising stardom throughout an interview with Leisure Weekly.
“To see you as this evolved human and being able to watch him going through [these scenes]. I could see everything in his mind. I could feel the energy of what his emotions were. I felt so proud of him,” Collette advised Hoult within the interview. “I was like, ‘My God, look how talented he is.’ It really blew me away. And then we got to hang out. We got to become friends properly, and it’s been a total gift. It’s a treat to come back together again.”
