“I certainly dreaded filming it and [writer-director] Richard [Curtis] kept saying as the weeks went by—he said, ‘Don’t you think we better rehearse the dancing scene?'” he shared “And I said, ‘Well, yeah, yeah, I gotta learn some lines. You know, my ankle hurts today.’ So, it was never rehearsed.”
He further explained, “And then on the day—I mean, imagine, you know, you’re a grumpy 40-year-old Englishman. It’s 7 o’clock in the morning. You’re stone-cold sober and it’s, ‘OK, Hugh, if you’d like to freak out now…’ It was absolute hell.”
The Brit has since moved on to darker roles, most recently acting opposite Nicole Kidman in HBO’s The Undoing.
