This article explores Hugh Grant's transformation into a compelling villain in the horror film 'Heretic'. It delves into his preparation for the role, including reading essays by Christopher Hitchens and books on serial killers, and how he used his charm to make the character more believable. The piece also touches on Grant's career resurgence after a period of decline and his gratitude towards the Wachowskis for giving him opportunities in 'Cloud Atlas'.
Grant faced a conundrum in taking on Heretic ’s “brilliantly complicated, fucked-up character.” He knew to play a villain in an arty A24 horror movie meant inhabiting the skin of a gleefully bad guy. He also knew he’d need to convince the audience that he could get away with whatever he was up to.
“On a big screen, over 90 minutes, unless there’s a sense of the quivering jelly—the damaged bit inside—it’s going to be boring and just be a mustache-twirling baddie,” Grant says. “You’ve got to get to the jelly.” Everyone, it turns out, was not eating it up: “People quite rightly were repelled by it in the end.” Grant credits the hunky womanizing boss of 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Daniel Cleaver, with breaking him out of that type—both in and out of the movies.
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