GN – Now, Hugh Grant, when you talk about your co-stars, you're quite open about ……. I don't know if you remember, you gave an interview to Elle magazine and they asked you about your various leading ladies,
GN - Emma Thompson: clever, funny, mad as a chair.
HG - That's true. You know her.
GN - Yes in fairness, I’m quite a mad chair. Renée Zellweger delightful, also far from sane.
HG – Fair. She's she is genuinely lovely, but her emails are 48 pages long.
GN – Wow!
HG - Can't understand a word of them. I’ll put them on Twitter.
GN - Then Sandra Bullock is a genius German but too many dogs.
HG – Way too many dogs.
GN - Then we get into a run of these. Julianne Moore: brilliant actress, loathes me.
HG – Yes!
GN - Rachel Vice: clever, beautiful, despises me.
HG – Yes!
GN - Drew Barrymore, made her cry, hates me.
GN - It can … it can’t be true.
HG - Julianne definitely hates me. Action wise I think we got on fine; I don't know why I said that. Maybe I was going through Comedy Triple*. Who is the third one?
GN - Drew Barrymore.
HG - She made the mistake of giving me notes which ..., how would you take that? If you were acting with someone …….
MS – I took it very well, didn’t I?
HG – Go take a litigator.
MS – Oh, no, no, no.
GN – BecauseMeryl, I heard you speaking about how you are now sort of aware of the effect you have on a cast.
MS – Yeah! I heard you say you were terrified, you were really terrified because the first day I worked with you I forgot my lines.
HG - I loved that. Here's an interesting question I meant to ask you all these months and never dared. Are ever nervous? Were you ever nervous?
MS – As if you didn’t ask me that.
HG - Did I?
MS – Yes, every day you asked me that. Aren’t you nervous? Second week I'm not nervous ………. but when we got at, when we got at Carnegie Hall I was shaking,
HG – Yeah!
MS - It was terrifying and that was late in the shoot. I when I had…. you know ….
HG – Ah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Well, that's not easy.
MS - No I guess I get nervous; I get nervous on chat shows. Chat shows are hard.
GN – Oh! Stop it.
MS - You’re a genius. I don't know how you do it, you put the most uptight people relaxed, but it is very tough.