-Matthew, last time I saw you we were in U.T. AUSTIN.
-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 ]