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Hugh Grant Shocks AFI Fest With Joke at ‘Heretic’ Premiere About 1995 Lewd Conduct Arrest

While introducing the thriller with filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and co-stars Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East, the 64-year-old star said: "Hollywood Boulevard has always been a lucky place for me."

The veteran movie star was welcomed to the microphone by his directors, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who explained the inspiration for their religious horror thriller about two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Grant), who taunts them in a game of cat and mouse. Last spring, during an appearance on The View, he brought it up after host Sunny Hostin asked why he had emerged as a vocal critic of the British tabloids and the practice of invading people’s privacy. Coincidentally, the latter line is a piece of dialogue in Heretic that one of the young women connects to Spider-Man while Grant’s Mr. Reed corrects her to say it actually belongs to French author Voltaire.

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