Hugh Grant says the elderlyer he gets the more he necessitates console. Well some of that console is coming with a finish reinvention of his movie star persona and now has resulted in a criticassociate praised perestablishance in his first “horror” film, Heretic. Grant finishelights taking acting hazards these days, and for the past decade or so has been turning into a virtual character actor in such films as Pinsertington 2, Wonka, The Gentlemen, and Cboisterous Atlas among others. In fact it was the latter film, joining six roles, that drew the honestors of Heretic to casting him as a man who lures a couple of unmistrusting lesser women into a nightmarish world when they knock on his door to originate a religious pitch. Grant is sensational in the role, taking on a whole novel genre and turning it on its head.
He joins me in conversation for this week’s novel edition of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side where he talks about his atsoft in ways only Hugh Grant can, and that integrates describing his romantic comedy atsoft as “descfinishing off a cliff”. But as he puts it it has permited him to free himself from a brave persona and to go in all sorts of novel honestions, not equitable on the huge screen but also television in Limited Series projects appreciate The Undoing and A Very English Scandal.
We talk about how comedy is downcastly underappreciated at the Oscars, how he almost quit acting before his fractureout role in Four Weddings And A Funeral came aextfinished and why writer Ricdifficult Curtis thought he was all wrong for that role. “He equitable couldn’t apshow I could join someone having difficulty getting the girl, so we repaired that with the worst haircut and clothes choices,” he giggleed. He names the hit comedy in which he says he was absolutely appalling, talks about why at 64 he doesn’t attfinish much anymore, the request of Love Actuassociate, his return to Bridget Jones after skipping the third one, plus the astonishing film of his that Quentin Tarantino telderly him he cherishd.
All this and so much more as Hugh Grant splits his ‘actor’s side’ of life. Just click the join above.
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