Much of the public still remembers him as that British champion of the 90s romantic comedy, but Hugh Grant He has already taken on completely atypical roles within his audiovisual CV, positioning himself as a luxury supporting role. Although another change we noticed in the Londoner is that at his 64 years oldhas less and less choppy words when it comes to discussing his past projects or his recent participation in films like Wonkawhere he brought to life a charismatic Oompa Loompa. However, a few days ago, the Golden Globe winner’s review center highlighted one of the most iconic characters from his vast filmography.
Grant is currently promoting Heretic (Heretic), an A24 film where he plays Mr. Reed. It’s arguably the darkest role of his career, but after years in front of the cameras, the actor Four weddings and a funeral He feels a much greater rejection toward another seemingly outspoken figure within his carousel of performances. We are talking about Williamthe bookseller whose life is radically changed by popular star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) in the iconic Notting Hill. A sort of revision of the popular romantic comedy that was a huge box office success in 1999. Starting with a budget of $42 million, the Roger Michell-directed film grossed over 360 million worldwide And today it is still a story revisited again and again by viewers. So much so that its reproductions on platforms such as Netflix, Movistar + or Filmin They number in the millions, becoming classic annual viewing when “event moments” like Valentine’s Day occur. But then…Why does Hugh Grant openly reject a character that everyone loves? What is your contempt for the witty Will Thacker?
He believes that the character “has no balls”
Hugh Grant was already known before accepting the role of Thacker. Indeed, after somewhat irregular beginnings and sporadic participation in British cinema in the 1980s, his first works helped him position himself under the orders of great filmmakers like Romain Polanski In ice moons, James Ivory In What’s left of the day or for Ang Lee In Senses and sensitivity. However, after the failure of Chris Columbus’s Nine Months, it was his duet with Roberts that gave him an international presence that would propel him to stardom. the most relevant cassettes within the genre.
After Notting Hillthey would arrive The diary of Brigitte Jones, Love with notice, a big boy And Love in factthus marking a turning point in which his subsequent failures in the genre would force him to take the aforementioned turn in his career. Grant’s hatred of William focuses specifically on a particular scene of the feature film in which he does not understand the character’s behavior.
“Every time I change the channel at home after having a few drinks and I see the movie, I ask myself ‘why doesn’t my character have any balls?'” he began reflecting in his latest interview for Vanity Fair. Thus, the actor gave the example of his meeting with the journalists and the gossip press who showed up at his door:
“There’s a scene where she’s at my house and the paparazzi come to the door, ring the doorbell, I let her in and she opens the door. It’s horrible,” he admitted. The interpreter later justified his argument by pointing out that he had never had a partner who, upon seeing the sequence, had not exclaimed “Why the hell didn’t you stop her?”. “That’s how it’s written and I think it’s really despicable.” In the same conversation with the media, the actor also took the opportunity to express the pressure he felt at that time sharing the screen with Roberts, and the constant feeling on the set of not being at his level.
Hugh Grant’s next films
In Spain, you will have to wait January 3 2025 to see Hugh Grant as a villain in the horror film Heretic. Barely a month later, he will break out of this impasse with the romantic comedy to return to another well-known story from his past. Grant will co-star Bridget Jones: Crazy about himthe official farewell to the main role played by Renée Zellweger.
To get an overview of the new type of paper of the media actor, we see the recent Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Operation Fortune: the great hoax either The Gentlemen: The Lords of the Mafia.
