Hugh Grant reflects on moments from his best films, including this 'Notting Hill' prank

The tabloids would have been all over it if they'd seen Anna Scott's secret boyfriend with brown matter on his white trousers!

 
Rewind: Notting Hill was a subjectively perfect romantic comedy that debuted in May 1999 and followed A-list movie star Anna Scott, played by A-list movie star Julia Roberts, as she clumsily but undeniably fell in love with anonymous travel bookshop keeper William Thacker, played by Hugh Grant.

Grant joined The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday to participate in a segment called "Behind the Scenes," which led to him revealing this delightful nugget about filming the Richard Curtis-written love story:

"Remember the scene with the brownies? We were sitting around having dinner, and it's about who's gonna eat the last brownie? Hugh Bonneville, who Americans think is a classy actor, what he got up to during that scene—deliberately putting brownies on my chair, so that I would sit on them in my white trousers. And then they could all laugh at my bum in between takes."

The scene in question was a birthday dinner for William's quirky sister, Honey (Emma Chambers), that William couldn't believe Anna wants to attend. The group competed for the final brownie by telling a story, and the saddest one won: