-Matthew, last time I saw yo
we were in U.T. AUSTIN.
-Yes, sir.
-Where you were a professo
at that university.
-I'm still am a professor there.
-You still are.
Yeah, that's right.
-I kept my job.
-How was the class, yeah.
How did it go? how --
-It went great. Everyone passed.
Everyone got As.
-Yeah, perfect. Man, come on
[ Applause ]
-We actually studied this film
"The Gentlemen."
-You did?
-We were talking about it, yes
-Oh, that's right.
And I saw from your Lincoln ad
that, over the holiday,
you went ice -- you went
ice fishing.
-Ice fishing.
[ Laughter ]
-In the back --
in back of your truck.
-Everyone's always known how big
of an ice fishermen I am.
-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Have you ever,
ever been ice fishing?
-Absolutely not.
[ Laughter ]
But, I play one on TV.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
-A red flag come up
and you get a bit of a smile
Go get the fish very slowly.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
-Have you seen --
have you seen his Lincoln ads?
-No, I want to very much.
-Oh.
[ Laughter ]
They're the most relaxing
coolest, best -- one of th
oddest things you'll ever see.
[ Laughter ]
-Really?
-They're fantas-- I never
know where he's going.
-He's quite an odd man actually.
[ Laughter ]
-You think he is?
-I have discovered, yeah.
-Yeah, you have.
Did you guys ever know eac
other before this movie?
-No, and not on it either.
We had no scenes together.
-Oh.
-So, we've really just met
[ Laughter ]
-Wow.
[ Laughter ]
-We passed each other
from a distance
on a Chinese golf course,
someone told us --
[ Laughter ]
about 15 years ago.
-Is that right?
-But now we're just meetin
tonight, yeah.
-There's a question I wanted t
ask you because I think it was
last year you got a little
political in England.
You didn't want to get
Boris Johnson re-elected.
-Yeah.
-Or to be Prime Minister -
so, you went -- is this true
you went door to door
knocking on people's doors
telling them
not to vote for Boris Johnson?
-I did.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-What can people do? What?
-Well, they pretended to b
very nice.
[ Laughter ]
I took eight different
candidates around and, you know,
we knocked on doors and I said
"Are you going to vote for Jim?"
and they all say,
"Oh, yes. very much so"
and none of them did.
[ Laughter ]
-It didn't work.
-Every single one of my
candidates lost.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my God.
-100% record of failure.
-This is good.
It's good to try it, though.
-Well, I felt I had to --
-Did people to be like
"Love Actually."
[ Laughter ]
And that's what you did.
-I think some of the adult
thought that
and some of the kids burst int
tears because they thought
I was the guy from "Paddington
2," you know what I mean?
[ Laughter ]
Yeah.
-The funny thing about thi
movie is you kind of
got into this, Hugh, because i
was your wedding day maybe
-It was an absurd encounter.
-Yes.
-I was on my way to my wedding
with my wife.
I was very late and trying cross
the road in Sloane Square
in London and a man falls of
his bike in front of us.
Idiot.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, Christ.
[ Laughter ]
I tried to pick him up and along
comes Guy Ritchie who I know
I bit 'cause I did
"Man from U.N.C.L.E." with him
-Yeah.
-And he said, "Sorry Hugh,
it's my assistant. He's always
falling off his bike.
Get up, get up."
[ Light laughter ]
So, he got up. Anyway, "Bye,
goodnight. Nice to see you."
Guy said, "No, no. Wait, wait,
wait, I got a script for you."
I said, "Yes, fine,
but I've got to get marrie
and I'm really late."
[ Light laughter ]
He said, "No, no, I'll tell yo
the picture, the whole story."
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
So, you were late for your
wedding because Guy Ritchie?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-And it turned out
to be this movie.
It's fantastic by the way.
-It's fun, isn't it?
-It's so much fun. It's great.
I mean, you must have gotten t
know each or a little bit
on set even though you didn'
have --
-No.
-You really haven't?
-Really, tonight.
[ Laughter ]
-You just did really meet
tonight.
-Yeah, pretty much.
-No, we --
we did a read-through together
-What was your first impression.
-We didn't say anything
to each other.
[ Laughter ]
-I tried to talk to him.
[ Laughter ]
-He -- really?
He's not one of those.
He's not really talkative guy.
-It's a bit grand.
-Yeah.
What did you think when you were
going to work with
Matthew McConaughey?
What did you think he was goin
to be like.
-I -- I don't like working wit
very good actors
'cause they show me up.
[ Laughter ]
And I was aware that he'd wo
bloody Oscars
and things like that.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
-Was not very happy about it
-No, yeah.
-Yeah.
-And what did you think abou
when you were going to
work with Hugh Grant?
-Well, what you
probably don't know about Hugh
is how
jolly of a character he is
[ Laughter ]
An infectious humor and laughter
and just so happy.
It pisses everyone off.
[ Laughter ]
-That's not the case at all.
-One of the funniest men
I've ever --
-I'm a humanist. It is an art.
[ Laughter ]
-Matthew, describe your
character in "The Gentlemen.
How did you come up with Mickey?
-Mickey, he's is an American
expat who is living in London,
who has a very profitable
marijuana empire
and he's trying to sell of
this multi-hundred million
dollar empire, gracefully
and civilly for a fair price
but because he's in the business
with a bunch of scallywags
of course,
they're not going to pay
the fair price.
[ Laughter ]
So, instead of
eloquently retiring as I want to
he has to get up
and get very violent again
and try to eliminate the -
the bad guys.
-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-And, Hugh, your character
I've never seen you play
a character like this.
-How good is this man in this?
-He crushes it.
-Crushes it.
-Oh.
-This is amazing.
-No, Matthew McConaughey.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, that's very nice.
He's a proper actor.
I'm messing around in this fil
and I don't know if it comes off
but, yes, I play an incredibly
sleazy repellant,
reptile of a human being.
[ Laughter ]
He's a private investigato
working for a big tabloid
newspaper and that, of course,
was sort of joke casting
on Guy Ritchie's part 'cause
I've been ranting and raving
about tabloid newspapers
for years, but it was --
it was quite fun
and I was able to --
I've now made friends, you see
during my campaigning
with some of the guys who used
to hack my phone,
steal my medical records,
in one case, burgle my flat.
[ Light laughter ]
That was weird 'cause the people
I campaign with,
give me a party every year
and at each one they introduce
me to another person
who did something terrible to me
and it's just strange
they say, "Oh, Hugh, I don't
think you've met Bill.
He burgled your flat in 1996."
[ Laughter ]
And you go, "Oh, hi.
Well, have a drink.
I think you know where
everything is, you know."
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
-"Let yourself in.
you know the place."
-Yeah.
-"You know the place
pretty well."
Oh, you know, I had an idea
thought it would be kind of fun.
I thought it would be kind o
fun if you read a famous lin
of Matthew's and Matthew, yo
read a famous line of Hugh's
-Okay.
-Would you be up for that?
-Yes, please.
-Alright, Matthew,
you can go first.
-Nevermind.
-First one is Hugh's line
from "Love Actually."
-[ British accent ] "Who do yo
have to screw around here to
get a cup of tea
and a chocolate biscuit?"
[ Laughter ]
-Wait, but how would --
how would --
that sounded like him.
But, how would you do it a
Matthew McConaughey?
[ Laughter ]
-"Who do you got to screw around
here to get a cup of tea
and a biscuit?"
[ Laughter ]
-So much hotter.
-It's not bad.
-Yeah.
-And then Hugh,
could you read this line here?
This from one of Matthew's -
-"Alright, alright, alright!
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Yes! Why, that did again.
[ Cheers and applause ]
