Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey on UK/US differences

Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey don’t share a scene in new film The Gentlemen. Both actors star, but their characters spend the movie avoiding or talking about each other rather than actually meeting.

But the duo recently got together for a chat with ShortList, in Guy Ritchie’s Fitzrovia pub Lore of the Land. Which is fitting as Ritchie co-writes and directs The Gentlemen, a gangster flick in the vein of his acclaimed crime capers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Rocknrolla.

In The Gentlemen, Grant plays a shady private investigator digging up dirt on McConaughey’s gangster, an American who has built a lucrative marijuana empire in England. The film deals with the clash of those two cultures throughout, so we asked the pair to compare and contrast the English and American experience.