Nicholas Hoult Credits Hugh Grant For His Sense of Humor | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I just want to walk you through your. career which at such a young age you've. had such a range of experiences and so. much success but you know I saw I know. that you had worked as a child but then. about a boy is when it's like 2002 I. want to say yeah about that yeah and. you're working with Hugh Grant who by. the way uh has had this I mean he. started out as one type of performer in. romantic comedies and now he's become. he's found this whole other sweet spot.

that I find extremely emerald. He is so. good. His recent one's coming out soon. Heretic. Heretic. Yeah, I saw the. trailer. It looks great. Looks amazing. I maintain. and I have many people I think many. people will agree with me. Paddington 2. and it sounds like I'm making a joke. So. good. Paddington 2 might be a perfect. movie. And I think it has a score on. Rotten Tomatoes of just absolute. perfection. I've watched Paddington 2. several times looking for a flaw. There. isn't one. But Hugh Grant is so.

delightfully insanely over the He's. having such a good time. It's brilliant. He is He is truly brilliant. But he you. worked with him. You were young, 10, 11, 12, something like that. You're working. with uh Hugh Grant and he taught you by. observing him. He you learned from I. think I still think the other day I was. thinking about and I think a lot of my. sense of humor probably stems down a. little bit from him. Mhm. Um, and also. just, you know, how he was on set. He. was he was so dedicated to the work and.

professional and kind and good with. everyone and just really really deeply. cared about doing a good job himself and. making the film good. And I think I I. couldn't have had a better experience at. that sort of age in terms of just. learning and watching people and being. like, "Okay, this is how it's how it's. supposed to be and how it's supposed to. be." You'd have to put in the work. Yeah. To get to the fun part, you need. to prepare. or you need to be on it. Yeah. And also it's that thing of like. and you know you end up on set sometimes. where people won't come out of trailers. and this and that and and there's just.

extra kind of ego business going on and. there wasn't any of that. So I think. good to have you. know good behavior around that sort of. you know well you lost me with this. whole line of reasoning. I had a trailer. put upstairs in this office just so I. could not come out of it but half the. time no one wants me to come out of it. It's a win-win. Yeah. I wasn't familiar. with the show you did when you were an. adolescent skins. I don't really know. that that show, but it it became huge in.

the UK and that was a little difficult. for you to handle because you're an. adolescent and suddenly it's this. Yeah. I don't think any of us were prepared. for how well that show would do. And I. and I stand by this. Somebody was asking. me about that show the other day and I. was saying I think the reason that it. did kind of capture the moment so well. is because it wasn't expected to be what. it was. Mhm. You know, I feel like more. commonly now when shows kind of showing. the teen way of life and whatever and. we're and they're going to show.

everything and it's going to be hardcore. and all this sort of stuff, there's kind. of this idea of what it's going to be. and how it's going to fit into the. zeitgeist early. Whereas that was kind. of like we're just going to make this. show. We're all kind of messing around. It's a good bunch of people. Um very. talented bunch and great writing, but. it's kind of like not nothing's expected. of it. Yes. Um, and then it did kind of. blow up in in a way that um I feel like. it still kind of gets watched some by. some people now. I've never I've never. actually seen it. But you were young to. be experiencing that kind of attention.

I I was 16 or 17. And it was I guess it. was around then that maybe camera phones. and stuff were starting to kind of come. out as well. It was just it was it was a. weird transition because up until then. I'd basically most of the time just been. able to live my life very normally and. and I still can mostly dayto-day. It's. um being recognized is kind of a weird. it goes in weird waves. I don't know if. you find this but it's. like if you've had something out. recently or you've been on people's. screens then maybe they recognize you. Otherwise people just look at me like.

maybe we went to school together. But at. that period because that show was very. popular like with my age group and. everything as well. It was kind of it. felt like I was under scrutiny a lot. Yeah. So, if you're going out, you just. want to have a drink, hang out with. friends. Yeah. You have to accept that. someone might be recording you. It's a weird transition. I didn't. particularly enjoy that um at all. I. think it's healthy not to enjoy that. Yeah. I think there are a lot of people. who'd be 15, 16, 17 and think, "Boy, if.

I could be famous right now and get that. kind of attention at an age when, you. know, you want attention." Uh, wouldn't. that be amazing? And uh, so often it's. not. Yeah. I don't Well, I don't know. What kind of attention do people want? Well, let me explain my problem. Come to. the master. Here we go. You're talking. about getting recognized. I wear a hat. that says I am Conan O'Brien wherever I. go. Stop me and ask for a selfie. Um.

uh yeah, I think it's all about um I. mean you've had this interesting. education. where you were getting probably. attention and working. as a child, then you're a teenager, but. then you've I mean you've handled it all. really well. you've done. I was thinking. of your performance in Mad Max. Yeah. As. uh first of all, when I first saw that,

I didn't even realize it was you. Yeah. See, no one will recognize me from that. Yeah. Because you play you play Nu. Yeah. And Nu. is this terrific character. You lost so. much weight for that. And the backstory. First of all, I love that movie. And we. did a parody of it when we were at. ComicCon once where I play the doof. warrior who's the guy that we actually. recreated. We shot it film style. We recreated that. whole giant truck. Do you remember this.

sona? Yeah, I do. I'm hanging off the. front with an electric guitar and the. white face and wearing the red onesie. and shooting fire. You still have the. red onesie? I'm wearing I'm wearing it. now, but I'm wearing it for the red. onesie is this new nickname. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and I'm wearing it for medical. reasons. Um, but I'm shooting f they. made they gave me a guitar that she real. and then we were shooting it out in the. desert. But after the first take they. said uh when you get near a telephone.

pole turn off the fire. And I was like. what? And they were like because. otherwise you'll set the telephone poles. off here in the desert outside Los. Angeles on fire. And I went no one. thought like this is up to me. If I want. to, I can take out the power grid with. my electric. guitar. But anyway, uh we did a whole. parody of that which was really fun to. do. But I I absolutely adore that film. And your character, I mean, talk about. being able to lose yourself in a.

character. You lost a ton of weight to. play Nu. You're you're in this because. you're in this. everyone who's survived that apocalypse. is sickly. Mhm. And yeah, Nux is meant. to be kind of essentially on his. deathbed the day that you meet him and. dur on at the start of the film. So that. was something George asked me to do was. to lose some weight. And I I did get a. strange body dysmorphia through that. where I didn't feel I was that skinny. and then looked back at photos and I was. like, "Oh, you were very skinny. I. didn't realize quite how far I'd gone. with it." Um, and what was the I mean,

everyone has their own technique, but is. that a kind of thing where literally. you're working with a doctor and they're. saying, "Okay, you can have a tic tac. today and then a little soup before. bed." It wasn't that. It was just not. eating as much and just running tons and. jumping rope and and like Yeah, just not. eating that much. I wish there was a. secret. Oh, I didn't eat as much. I think. there is now, right? Oh, yeah. The old. It's true. Yeah. I'm gonna get an ompic. colonic. Uh oh god. Oh Jesus. I don't.

know. Maybe it'll go even faster if you. go the other way. What that means? Go. the other way. I'm just going to say a. colonic. A colonic for I want that for. other reasons. Um they don't go. together. Yeah. But the red onesie is. going to help be helpful throughout. this. Thank god I have that onesie on. Um, when did you become My mates had to give. himself like a colonic like that's when. you shoot the stuff up to loosen. everything. Yes. He had to do that in a.

hospital and then like lost control and. they they said you could do it himself. and he was like, "Okay, I'll do it." But. then was like on the floor of the. bathroom in the hospital like cramping. with. everyone. Why did they say do it. yourself? Oh my god. First of all, this. is not This story is much better if you. identify your friend. I can't. They're. very famous. Oh, it's got to be you, Grant. It's you, Grant. It's got to be. Hugh, Grant. Cramping, all over. the floor. You heard it here, folks.

Let's get that out there. It's not It's not too late. I'm editing. your It's not out. And we're replacing. it with an AI. Yes, it is. Definitely. him. Oh, we got the sound. Thank you. Now we're good.