Drew Barrymore Responds To Hugh Grant’s Singing Critiques

Drew Barrymore had a musical response after her former co-star Hugh Grant stated her singing voice was “horrendous”.

The 2 stars beforehand shared the display screen within the romantic comedy Music And Lyrics, by which Drew portrayed an aspiring songwriter and Hugh performed a washed-up 80s pop singer.

Over the course of the movie, each Drew and Hugh sing a number of occasions, which the Bridget Jones’s Diary actor lately spoke about throughout an interview with Wired.

Requested whether or not it was his personal singing voice that we heard within the 2007 movie, Hugh defined: “Sure… however I’m auto-tuned past perception. Truly, that’s not true, I’m auto-tuned a bit, however not as a lot as some.”

“Drew Barrymore was in that movie with me and I don’t assume she’d thoughts me saying her singing is simply horrendous,” he added. “I’ve heard canine bark higher than she sings.”

Responding to Hugh’s feedback, Drew shared a video of herself singing the track’s finale quantity, A Method Again Into Love, which the pair carry out as a duet on the movie’s soundtrack, into her hairbrush.

“Oh Hugh? Hughbert? That’s for you,” she joked on the finish of the clip.

In Hugh’s defence, he did later go on to reward Drew’s efficiency approach, noting: “as soon as they tuned her up, she sounded manner higher than me, as a result of she’s acquired coronary heart and voice and rock ’n’ roll. Whereas I seemed like Julie Andrews, and I used to be meant to be rock ’n’ roll.”

Music And Lyrics featured authentic songs by Fountains Of Wayne frontman Adam Schlesinger, who died in 2020 attributable to Covid problems.

Hugh was again within the headlines this week following his look on the Academy Awards.

Not solely did he elevate eyebrows when he stopped for an interview with Ashley Graham on the pink carpet, he additionally triggered a stir in the course of the ceremony with a usually self-deprecating joke.

Watch Hugh’s full interview with Wired within the video beneath: