Hugh Grant claimed that cell phones have made movie sets “so weird now” since performers are no longer intoxicated and “in love with each other.”
Grant made the remarks while promoting his film, “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” based on the popular tabletop role-playing game, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Stephen Colbert questioned Grant about whether any of his co-stars tried to get him to play the game on which the film is based after the “Notting Hill” actor revealed he had never played or understood it.
“I believe Chris Pine tried on occasion.” “There was talk of it, but I’m not sure,” Grant said. “Films are so strange these days. They’re strange because, by the end of the second week, you were all getting drunk in the evenings, eating supper, falling in love with each other, and all that.”
“All of that came to an end because of telephones,” he remarked. Everyone returns home and checks Twitter. It’s heartbreaking.”
“So if there weren’t telephones on set, would there be more affairs going on?” Colbert said.
“Yeah, I think so,” Grant said. Tarantino, you know, barred telephones from his set, and rightly so. And, according to what I’ve heard, the folks there all shag each other.”
Shag is a slang term for s*x in the United Kingdom.

Grant plays a con artist in “Dungeons & Dragons” who preys on the main characters, played by Michelle Rodriguez, Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith, Regé-Jean Page, and Pine.
Grant faced controversy in March after a video of an embarrassing interview he gave with Ashley Graham at this year’s Academy Awards went viral.
Grant didn’t deliver compelling answers to Graham’s questions during a preshow interview on the red carpet at the Oscars, and he appeared to be bored.
While some viewers called Grant “rude and dismissive” and claimed the whole incident was “pretty weird,” others defended the “Love Actually” star, saying he was trying to be British but his American interviewer missed it.

Drew Barrymore, who costarred with Grant in the 2007 rom-com “Music and Lyrics,” remarked on her talk show a few days after the event that Grant is just that way.
“If you know Hugh, that is his way of loving you,” she said on “The Drew Barrymore Show” a week later. “It’s funny, too, because there’s this thing going around with, like, him and Ashley Graham on the red carpet, and people are like, ‘Oh, he’s such a curmudgeon and she’s so thrown,’ and I’m like, ‘No, that’s Hugh Grant.'”
“You think you’re getting this charming movie star, and what you really get is grumpy Hugh,” Barrymore continued. “And then you fall for grumpy Hugh.”
She also said that it “took me a second” to figure out Grant’s sense of humor.