Four weddings and a funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, You the lyrics, me the music…there was a time in the industry when Hugh Grant He was the true king of romantic comedy. Although in reality he had previously participated in projects directed by names far removed from the genre, such as James Ivory or Roman Polanski in the cult film ice moons. The public loved him and the British, he was a bonus for the box officemanaging to make profitable productions that would surely have landed on the billboards if they hadn’t had his name in the credits. But it is precisely one of those titles which They took him away from the triumphant path which he has maintained until this moment. But perhaps even stranger is the film that he says got him back on track. pace of work that I cherished at the moment.
His stone in the road was What happened to the Morgans? A story directed by Marc Lawrence and in which Grant shared a cast with television star Sarah Jessica Parker. With which, on the other hand, it had already coincided in the 90s with the thriller By crossing the limit. But his second film with the Sex and the City actress was a real disaster on every level. The specialist reviews destroyed it and at the box office it only managed to reach $85 million. As the man from Hammersmith tells it, after this failure, the offers for roles stopped until an unexpected offer came to him from the Wachowski sisters. After three years without appearing in any feature film, the directors of Matrix next to Tom Tykwer They chose Grant to be part of the cast of one of writer David Mitchell’s most complicated adaptations: The Cloud Atlas (Cloud Atlas).
A failure saved him from another failure
If we talk about What happened to the Morgans? like a failure, The Cloud Atlas we can say exactly the same thing. The ambitious, timeless adventure of American filmmakers cost more than $100 million and only managed to collect 130in addition to having a large number of negative reviews. However, its particular plot and its status as a particularly unique film have elevated it to the status of this group of stories who manage to have a good number of defenders.
As Hugh Grant tells it, the uniqueness of this profession in which he brought to life several different characters led him to rediscover his love for the theater and, in doing so, to demonstrate at the Mecca of cinema and for the industry, it could be much more than the man who romantically conquers a woman in a romance film.
“I was completely abandoned”Grant began by telling the magazine Vanity Fair in his last interview. “The Wachowskis offered me a few small roles in Cloud Atlas and to be honest, they probably offered it to me because some of their international distributors had said, “We need more recognizable names.” Put someone recognizable in here,’” said the six-time Golden Globe nominee, Cloud Atlas ended up inventing quite a few powerhouse Hollywood names such as. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving or Susan Sarandon. All played different characters in a plot that focuses a group of several stories that take place in the past, present and future and where each of them are small details that intertwine them.
Now, more than 10 years later, Grant said his work on that film inspired the filmmakers. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods so that they elect him Heretic. A horror premiere in a performance to which the performer is not at all accustomed. Finally, the highest representative of “gentleman British” On the big screen, he wanted to prove Cloud Atlas right, because it “never found the audience it deserved”: “I think Cloud Atlas is incredible. I think it’s an incredible film… “It’s frustrating for me. Every time I do something outside of the light comedy genre, the film fails to find an audience at the box office.”
The turning point in Hugh Grant’s career
It took many years for international audiences to stop viewing him as an innocent and tender heartthrob. Something that has surely changed due to his association with the filmmaker Guy Ritchie. With the manager of Lock and storeGrant created incredibly fun and charismatic characters that can be found in Operation UNCLE, The Gentlemen: The Lords of the Mafia And Operation Fortune: the great hoax. This ability to “steal scenes” from the protagonists was beautifully manifested in Wonka and apart from that, he demonstrated his dramatic value in the HBO Max miniseries, The defeat.
“Heretic”: release date
Heretic (Hereje) took a long time to arrive in Spain and will finally be released in theaters on January 3, 2025several months after its premiere in the United States, Canada, Brazil and other countries. That will be when we get to see Hugh Grant as the evil Mr. Reed.
