Hugh Grant actively seeks out negative reviews of his performances

During a conversation with his Bridget Jones co-star Renée Zellweger, for British Vogue magazine, he admitted that he visits the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, and makes a beeline for the "green splats", or negative opinions, about his films. "I read every review on Rotten Tomatoes, skipping through looking for the green splats. Sometimes there's hardly any, but they're the ones I make a beeline for.” When Zellweger asked why he'd do that to himself, Grant joked that he was addicted to "self-flagellation", and she wondered whether he was on a quest for validation.