It’s a compliment: Nicholas Hoult on people claiming he copies Hugh Grant

Nicholas Hoult says when people claim that he has “stolen” certain mannerisms from his “About A Boy” co-star Hugh Grant, he takes it as a compliment. Hoult, known for playing Beast in “X-Men: First Class”, Nux in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and Harley in “The Favourite”, had his career breakthrough at the age of 12, when he starred alongside Grant in “About a Boy”

The 30-year-old actor said the British star has left a huge impact on him. "One of my first experiences making a film was with Hugh Grant on ‘About A Boy’. That’s certainly something that I don’t think I purposefully do, but occasionally people will say that there are things I do particularly within Tony’s writing (Tony McNamara, who wrote ‘The Favourite’) there are occasionally moments where people think I take things that Hugh does and steal them and run with them maybe a little bit. “I don’t purposefully do that, but I take it as a compliment when people do say that,” Hoult told Collider. The actor recently had to drop out of the cast of “Mission: Impossible 7” due to scheduling conflicts.

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