Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant Swap Iconic Movie Lines

-Matthew, the last time I saw you we were at U.T. AUSTIN. -Yes sir. -Where you were a professor at that university. -I'm still a teacher there. -You still are. Yes it's correct. -I kept my job. -How was the class, yes. How did it go? how... -It was great. Everyone passed. They all got As. -Yes, perfect. Let man. -In fact we studied this

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, "The Knights." -You did it? -We were talking about that, yes. -Oh, it's true. And I saw in his Lincoln ads that, during the holidays, he went ice fishing. -Ice fishing. -In the back... in the back of your truck. -Everyone has always known what a great ice fisherman I am. -Yeah.

Have you ever been ice fishing? -Absolutely not. But I play one on TV. -Yeah. -A red flag appears and you get a small smile. Go get the fish very slowly. -Yeah. -Have you seen... have you seen the Lincoln ads for him? -No, I really want to. -Oh. They are the most relaxing, coolest, best things, one of the strangest things you have ever seen. -Actually? -They're ghosts-- I never know where he's going. -He is a rather strange man actually. -Do you think he is him? -I have discovered it, yes. -Yes, you have. Did you ever meet before this

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? -No, and not in that either.

We didn't have scenes together. -Oh. -So, we really just met. -Wow. -We crossed paths from afar on a Chinese golf course, someone told us, about 15 years ago. -Alright? -But now we will meet tonight, yes. -There is a question I wanted to ask you because I think it was last year that you got a little political in England. He didn't want Boris Johnson to be re-elected. -Yeah. -Or to be Prime Minister... then, you were... is that true? He went door to door, knocking on people's doors, telling them not to vote for Boris Johnson. -I did. -What can people do?

That? -Well, they pretended to be very nice. I brought in eight different candidates and, you know, we knocked on doors and I said, "Are you going to vote for Jim?" and everyone says, "Oh, yeah. A lot," and no one did. -It didn't work. -Each and every one of my candidates lost. -Oh Lord. -100% crash log. -This is good. Although it's good to try. -Well, I felt like I had to... -People wanted to say "Love Actually." And that's what you did. -I think some adults thought that and some kids burst into tears because they thought I was the guy from "Paddington 2", you know what I mean?

Yes. -The funny thing about this movie is that you got into this, Hugh, because maybe it was your wedding day. -It was an absurd meeting. -Yeah. -I was on my way to my wedding with my wife. I arrived very late and tried to cross the street in Sloane Square in London and a man falls off his bike in front of us. Idiot. Oh Christ. I tried to hook him up and Guy Ritchie showed up, who I know I bit because I did "Man from U.N.C.L.E." with the. -Yeah. -And he told me: "I'm sorry Hugh, he's my assistant.

He always falls off his bike. Get up, get up." Then he got up. Anyway, "Bye, good night. Nice to see you." Guy said, "No, no. Wait, wait, wait, I have a script for you." I said, "Yes, that's fine, but I have to get married and I'm very late." He said, "No, no, I'll tell you the picture, the whole story." -Yeah. So, you were late to your wedding because Guy Ritchie? -Yes Yes Yes. -And it turned out to be this movie. It's fantastic by the way. -It's fun, isn't it? -It's so fun. It's great. I mean, you should have gotten to know everyone or a little bit on set even if you hadn't... -No. -Haven't you really done it? -Really, tonight. -You really met tonight. -Yes, more or less. -No, we... we did a reading together. -What was your first impression. -We didn't say anything. -I tried to talk to him. -He really?

He's not one of those. He's not a very talkative guy. -He's a little grand. -Yeah. What did you think when you were going to work with Matthew McConaughey? How did you think it was going to be? -I... I don't like working with very good actors because they show me off. And I was aware that he had won fucking Oscars and stuff. -Yeah. -I wasn't very happy with that. -No Yes. -Yeah. -And what did you think about when you were going to work with Hugh Grant? -Well, what you probably don't know about Hugh is how cheerful a character he is.

A contagious and very happy humor and laughter. It bothers everyone. -That is not the case at all. -One of the funniest men I have ever met... -I am a humanist. It's an art. -Matthew, describe your character in "The Knights". How did you come up with Mickey? -Mickey, is an American expat living in London, who has a very profitable marijuana empire and is trying to sell this multi-million dollar empire, elegantly and politely for a fair price, but because he is in business with a bunch of scoundrels, for Of course, they are not going to pay the right price.

So instead of eloquently retreating like I want, he has to get up and get very violent again and try to take out the... the bad guys. -Yeah. -And, Hugh, your character, I have never seen you play a character like that. -How good is this man at this? -It crushes him. -It crushes him. -Oh. -This is incredible. -No, Matthew McConaughey. Oh, that's very nice. He is a proper actor. I'm playing in this movie and I don't know if it turns out well, but yes, I play an incredibly sleazy and repellent human being. He's a private investigator who works for a big tabloid newspaper and that, of course, was kind of a joke on Guy Ritchie's part because I've been ranting and raving about tabloids for years, but it was... it was pretty funny and I could ...now I became friends, during my campaign, with some of the guys who used to hack my phone, steal my medical records, and, in one case, burglarize my apartment.

That was strange because the people I campaign with throw me a party every year and each time they introduce me to another person who did something terrible to me and it's strange that they say, "Oh, Hugh, I don't think you met Bill. He robbed your apartment in 1996. And you say, “Oh, hi. Well, have a drink. I think you know where everything is, you know?" -"Let yourself in. You know the place." "Yeah." "You know the place pretty well." Oh, you know, I had an idea and I thought it would be funny. I thought it would be funny if you read a famous line from Matthew and Matthew read a famous line from Hugh. -Well. -Would you be up for that? -Yes, please. -Okay, Matthew, you can go first. -The first one is Hugh's line from "Love Actually." You have to fuck around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate chip cookie?" -Wait, but how... how... would that sound like him?

But how would you do it like Matthew McConaughey? -"A who do you have to fuck around here to get a cup of tea and a biscuit?" -Much hotter. -Not bad. -Yeah. -And then Hugh, could you read this line here? This from one of Matthew's: "It's okay, okay, okay!" -Yes! Wow, that happened again.