so then the next big thing that you did
was not a good experience called nine
months a good film and a big hit but a
bad experience for you well yes they are
very talented people who made that film
and really brilliant actors in a million
more for God's sake Julianne Moore Robin
Williams yes Jerry so lumbers yeah
exactly
all brilliant the only one booby who let
them down not not only was I terrible in
the film but I then chose to get
arrested here in Hollywood
a week before good news came out in the
early hours of this morning on
Hollywood's famous Sunset Boulevard Hugh
Grant was seen by officers from the Los
Angeles vice squad picking up a known
prostitute to this day people talk about
the way you handled that situation which
was apologizing and not making excuses
well which has become strangely
admirable in retrospect by the way we
handled it now I don't really remember
apologizing I'm not sure what I was
supposed to apologize - I was just an
idiot but I was true I didn't try and
say you know I have got the
psychological problem so either I just
said I did it I think you know in life
pretty much what's a good thing to do
and what's a bad thing and I did a bad
thing and that they have it I remember
for the night of the event calling my
agent was a very very nice guy very good
agent very powerful agent here but who
never says anything negative about
anything everything's great and I said
hi I should so just been arrested with
this hooker is that bad and he said oh
that's not great the only time I ever
heard him say anything less
it must have also been a lesson in that
the second the movie came out and was a
hit the offers just kept pouring in yeah
that's right that seems to be the
Hollywood Way as long as you make money
they don't care what you get up to
Elizabeth Hurley
stayed with you during that time yet
your relationship with Elizabeth which
started then and grouted 13 years or
whatever it is is a has become sort of a
great love story even though you're not
together now and it has certainly
evolved but that you were together for
that long that you went through clearly
ups and downs and then stayed great
great friends yeah after yes yes we all
would like brother and sister you still
talk every day well I would say every
day when we send each other city
messages and yes I think it's partly
because we went from zero to somewhere
together and we went through terrible
years at the beginning what we call the
winter of discontent when neither of us
had any work and living at a tiny flat
in Earls Court there's quite bonding
those things and then the success makes
it sometimes even more difficult right
yeah I suppose so but no she's a good
egg want her to be happy
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