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Leigh said the Film 2008 presenter had put people off seeing acclaimed 2002 drama All Or Nothing after branding it "tedious and boring".
He told Orange: "Jonathan Ross famously went out of his way on All Or Nothing to say 'Whatever you do, don't go and see this film; it's deeply tedious and who wants to watch a boring film about a lot of tedious, working class people on an estate?'
"Of course, that's not a description of that film at all. It's a very compassionate film that a lot of people love. But not a lot of people went to see it and I think Jonathan Ross made a major contribution because he had his TV programme and he was the film critic for the Daily Mirror at that time. So that's annoying."
His new movie Happy-Go-Lucky opens in the UK on April 18.
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