--- title: Red Nose Day: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant Reveal Their "True" Voices description: The gag was a sketch for NBC's "Red Nose Day" canonical: https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-22T11:51:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:11.823Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Red Nose Day: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant Reveal Their "True" Voices og:description: The gag was a sketch for NBC's "Red Nose Day" og:url: https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Red Nose Day: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant Reveal Their "True" Voices twitter:description: The gag was a sketch for NBC's "Red Nose Day" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant Reveal Their 'True' Voices by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 22, 2015 11:51 AM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 22, 2015 11:51 AM CUT We’ve come a long way from the days when certain silent movie actors couldn’t keep their careers alive after the arrival of talkies because their voices [just didn’t work](http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/13/entertainment/la-et-mn-john-gilbert-20130515 "undefined"). But is it possible that some of our favorite actors really do have awful voices and are simply dubbed over to sound more appealing? That’s the premise of one of NBC’s “Red Nose Day” comedy sketches, featuring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Daniel Craig and Liam Neeson admitting that their voices are very different from what moviegoers have come to expect. Somehow, those romantic scenes in _Notting Hill_ don’t work quite as well without their melodic tones. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/"},"headline":"Watch Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant Reveal Their 'True' Voices","datePublished":"2015-05-22T11:51:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:11.823Z","description":"The gag was a sketch for NBC's \"Red Nose Day\"","url":"https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","Julia Roberts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3893754/julia-roberts-hugh-grant-voices/","name":"Watch Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant Reveal Their 'True' Voices"}}]}] ```