“I’m an unabashed fan of flicks and of expertise and all the time have been. I’ve by no means been disingenuous or, , blase about that,” he says.

“I in all probability should restrain myself from completely taking selfies with each nominee and winner arising on the stage.”

“From that standpoint, I’m the best match for the job, hopefully,” he says.

Grant additionally is aware of the way it feels to take part in awards season and sit, nervously, ready for that profession altering envelope to be opened. He was nominated as supporting actor at each the BAFTAs and Oscars in 2019 for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

And he’s conscious that, as a working actor, internet hosting has its challenges.

“Historically in the event you’re a comic, your function could be very clear to roast the viewers. Whereas I’m an actor and, , despite the fact that I’m the huge classic that I’m now, I nonetheless need to work and collaborate with administrators and actors and writers for the rest of my respiration days. So roasting them isn’t actually an possibility and never one thing that I need to do.”

When requested if there might be any humor within the ceremony — Grant has jokes.

“No, It’s going to be very, very severe. There’ll be no jokes and it will likely be … it’ll be brutally earnest,” he says, laughing.

Insurgent Wilson bought combined evaluations for her joke heavy flip because the BAFTA ceremony emcee final March, which at one level concerned a cake of Benedict Cumberbatch’s face.

This yr, “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” leads the nominees with 14. “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “The whole lot All over the place All at As soon as” each have 10 nominations.

As you’d count on, Grant is aware of fairly just a few of the nominees, having labored with EE Rising Star nominees Naomi Ackie and Daryl McCormack, plus Invoice Nighy, Cate Blanchett and many of the “Banshees” forged.

However there might be huge adjustments on the BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony this yr.

After six years of strolling up the pink carpeted steps into the Royal Albert Corridor, nominees might be attending an occasion held beside the River Thames on London’s Southbank on the Royal Competition Corridor.

Additionally, for the primary time, the final half-hour of the present might be broadcast reside on BBC One, as BAFTA strikes in the direction of the thought of a totally reside ceremony.

“In an age the place all the pieces will be paused or quick forwarded or, , watched on at a later time, the factor of it being reside offers it a type of frisson and pleasure and likewise the likelihood that one thing can go fantastically properly or actually badly. And that’s all the time factor,” Grant says.

British rapper Lil Simz might be performing on the ceremony and each the prince and princess of Wales might be within the viewers, as he’s president of the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts.

Grant, at the moment working with script writers on what he’ll be saying on stage, claims he’s extra excited than nervous, including he’ll in all probability be “levitating” on the large day.

“It’s completely real,” he says of his boundless enthusiasm, “and it’s to the annoyance of some folks.”

“Simply surviving in show-business as a result of it’s, — for what it seems like from the skin — it’s a occupation that’s has an infinite quantity of rejection in constructed into it. So when individuals are acknowledged or succeed at what they’re doing and do it so brilliantly — I’m an incredible champion of that.”