Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant.

Renée Zellweger thinks the grumpiest grump in Hollywood is just a bit misunderstood.

On Wednesday, Vogue UK published a delightful — albeit occasionally snarky — piece in which Hugh Grant interviews his Bridget Jones’s Diary co-star in conjunction with the release of the franchise’s fourth instalment, Mad About the Boy, which will arrive in UK cinemas next month.

Towards the end of their interview, Hugh, in predictable fashion, began bemoaning his distaste for most human beings — including himself.

“You’re right, I’m not very friendly,” he eventually said to Renée in a self-deprecating fashion.

But the two-time Oscar winner had a different perspective of Hugh’s “get off my lawn” public persona.

“No! I don’t think that’s true about you at all,” she said. “I feel like you save your energy for the people that you really, really love and care about,........

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