Hugh Grant doesn’t strike as someone who would initiate fights, but apparently, he seemed to have done something that irked Robert Downey Jr. on the set of the 1995 film “Restoration.” In a guest appearance on “The Jess Cagle Interview,” the “Notting Hill” actor shared that Downey didn’t take a particular liking to him when they worked together.
“[He] hated me. Hated me. We did a thing called ‘Restoration’ and he took one look at me and wanted to kill me,” Grant recalled, adding that he did not have even so much as an inkling as to how he offended his co-star. “I don’t know [why]. I was so hurt.”
As it turns out, Downey Jr. didn’t have a particular reason as to why he had a one-sided feud with Grant. The “Iron Man” actor just had the impression that he was arrogant. “I kinda think he’s a jerk,” he told Gayl Murphy, per People. “Don’t know, I just think he is. My personal experience with him is I think he’s this kind of self-important, kind of, like, boring flash-in-the-pan a*****e Brit.”
