Guest week The anthill ended the sight of Hugh Grant, one of the best-known British actors in the world thanks to films such as Four weddings and a funeral, Notting Hill And Bridget Jones’s Diaryamong others. but this time it plays a very different role than the one we are used to thanks to Heretica horror film in which he goes from being the protagonist of romantic comedies to being a mysterious father. Although he has undergone millions of interviews and has been one of the most wanted people on the planet, there are still things we don’t know about him that he discovered thanks to this movie.
“That I like to kill”, this is the confession he made to Pablo Motosbut he had to explain after saying this with a worrying smile. “No, that’s not it. What he tried to do in this movie, even when things get dark, is keep it light like it’s fun to kill. This man (his character) truly believes that everyone is having a good time. It turns out that after being typecast in romantic comedies, the actor In reality, he enjoyed other, very different roles: “He liked more and more to play this type of complex character, these murderous monsters.”. Motos wanted to tell him that he seems to be a favorite for the Oscars: “I don’t know if the Oscar thing is real, but thanks for cheering me on.” Heretic is a film of psychological tension, I won’t say horror because I’ve been afraid of horror films since I was a child, which I saw The Exorcist being too small.
He also wanted to explain that this sinister character caused him more problems than expected: “I always feel anxiety, actually my first name is worry. Ultimately, in my job, you put yourself out there in front of a global audience and it makes you wake up in the middle of the night very worried. It was difficult for me to disconnect from the character“.
Hugh Grant and his bad memory of his most famous roles
“Yes, I spent too much time doing romantic comedy. The truth is that I am very proud of my comedies, except two or three which are very bad.“, he confessed in front of the cameras about his roles in some of his most famous films.
Fortunately, over time this has changed: “But now, what ifI’m too old to do romantic comedies, they offer me these monster roles and I really like them, I’m where I wanted to be“.
One of the roles that made him famous across the planet was the one in which he played. Four weddings and a funeral. There, he puts himself in the shoes of a man who falls in love with a daughter of a woman he doesn’t know at a party, but who can’t see her again until they meet again at another party, even though he discovers at that moment that she is a couple.
“Yes, this article was inspired by the person who wrote it. And then it was so successful that I got stuck there a little“, he explained. Given his lack of affection for her, he gave her the nickname “Stuttering Blinders”.
