Hugh Grant Mischievously Admits That A Colin Firth Box Office Bomb Is His Idea Of “Perfect Happiness”

Hugh Grant is once again mercilessly trolling Colin Firth.

On the promotion tour for A24’s Heretic, Grant renewed friendly fire towards his Bridget Jones co-star by revealing that his idea of “perfect happiness” is a Firth box office bomb.

Asked by Vanity Fair to articulate his vision of bliss, he replied: “Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.”

Grant and Firth have long enjoyed exchanging mischievous barbs in the public domain after starring in Bridget Jones’s Diary together in 2001.

A stunt by Grant went viral in 2022, when the actor sponsored a chair at BAFTA with a plaque dedicated to Firth that read: “In loving memory of Colin Firth. Not dead yet, but looks it. Sponsored by Hugh Grant.”

The pair jousted on the red carpet for the Love Actually premiere in 2003, with Grant interrupting a Firth interview with a dramatic yawn. “I’m never very kind about Colin, but if truth be told, he’s just about the only actor in the world I genuinely like and admire,” he later said, in an apparently earnest moment.

In a 2012 interview in The Evening Standard, Firth was asked if he is friends with Grant. “I get on really well with him, I like the guy, despite his outrageous rudeness about me,” he replied.

Firth added: “It’s a running joke, and we do it to each other. I’m always hearing how he’s announced that I’m too old to be in the cinema anymore.”