Greater than 20 years after first sharing the display screen, Nicholas Hoult and Hugh Grant have been reunited for a brand new video interview.

The pair each appeared within the Oscar-nominated comedy-drama About A Boy, which tells the story of a spoiled Londoner who turns into an unlikely father determine to a misfit teenage boy.

Self-importance Truthful reunited the 2 actors for a brand new video interview, shared on Wednesday, by which they replicate on their time working collectively.

Throughout the interview, Hugh revealed that the movie nearly didn’t occur in any respect.

“[The rights to the book About A Boy] had been purchased by another individuals and so they had been going to make it into a movie,” he defined.

“I put my little hand up, as a result of I liked the ebook, and so they mentioned, ‘sorry, we don’t actually such as you’. After which thrillingly, they misplaced the rights to the ebook, after which it went to Robert DeNiro and his firm [TriBeCa Productions], and so they mentioned, ‘we such as you very a lot’. And that was good!

“After which we needed to discover you. We simply wanted the best weirdo. And there you had been.”

The 2 met for the primary time at a display screen check for About A Boy, though neither of them had a very good reminiscence of it.

“I feel in high-stress eventualities I simply sort of panic and don’t soak up something of what’s taking place,” Nicholas admitted.

“So I don’t have any recollection of it – aside from I do know that I needed to put on a college uniform,however I didn’t go to a college that had a uniform on the time, so I borrowed my mum’s previous boat sneakers and painted them black with a marker.”

“Which might have been excellent for the character!” Hugh identified, admitting that his solely reminiscence is himself and the crew considering, “oh nice, we’ve acquired him, he’s good” afterwards.

Hugh additionally mentioned About A Boy marked a change in course for his profession, sharing: “I’d finished all these rom-coms, however for About A Boy, I assumed, ‘everybody’s going to see a complete new aspect of me’.

“I lower that ghastly hair off and I’m doing an accent in that movie, so I felt it was one thing new. I recall he was a bit North London, he wasn’t Little Lord Poshington that I’d been doing till then.”

Nicholas additionally recalled an embarrassing incident that took place when he snuck off for a sport of cricket between scenes.

“There was a stage subsequent to the one which we had been filming on that was open with nothing in it, and we’d run there in between pictures and play cricket with a number of the crew,” he mentioned.

“After which I got here in a single time, dripping with sweat, and everybody was like, ‘we’re able to shoot, and now this child’s vivid crimson, dripping with sweat, and we’ve acquired to dry his hair and every thing’. And I used to be like, ‘oh no, I’ve made a mistake, I shouldn’t have finished that’.”

Watch Self-importance Truthful’s full video interview – together with Nicholas revealing how his work with Hugh continues to affect him as an actor, the Heretic star’s stunning wrap reward for his youthful co-star and the scene that was really all Hugh’s concept – beneath:

Apparently, Nicholas’ interview with Hugh isn’t his solely About A Boy reunion of late.

Earlier this 12 months, he and his on-screen mum Toni Collette appeared within the movie Juror #2, and spoke extensively about their first time working collectively whereas selling their new film.

About A Boy is streaming now on Prime Video.