-Yes, sir. -Where you were a professor

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 ads 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 the 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 each

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 meeting

tonight, yeah.

-There's a question I wanted to 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 be 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 adults thought that

and some of the kids burst into tears because they thought

I was the guy from "Paddington 2," you know what I mean?

[ Laughter ] Yeah.

-The funny thing about this movie is you kind of

got into this, Hugh, because it 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 off 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 married

and I'm really late." [ Light laughter ]

He said, "No, no, I'll tell you 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 to know each or a little bit

on set even though you didn't 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 going to be like.

-I -- I don't like working with very good actors

'cause they show me up. [ Laughter ]

And I was aware that he'd won bloody Oscars

and things like that. [ Laughter ]

-Yeah. -Was not very happy about it.

-No, yeah. -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

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 off

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 film 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 investigator 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 I

thought it would be kind of fun.

I thought it would be kind of fun if you read a famous line

of Matthew's and Matthew, you 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 you 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 as 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 ]