The filter-free actor “regretfully” revisits his career, from fighting with Colin Firth in Bridget Jones to the true meaning of Love Actually: “It’s all about pain.”
“Audiences, for some reason, are always drawn to the baddie, which is fascinating,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It must mean that we are fundamentally evil as human beings. The antagonist, the bad guy, represents the real truth of the human experience.” Grant has no problem channeling his own “deranged” state of mind while “regretfully” revisiting his career for VF’s Scene Selection video series.
“It’s all about pain,” Grant says, “and the best kind of British humor—dealing with pain.” There’s plenty of suffering to be found in his performance as a floppy-haired travel bookshop owner in Notting Hill. “Whenever I’m flicking the channels at home after a few drinks and this comes up, I just think, Why doesn’t my character have any balls?” Grant says. “I think he’s despicable, really.” As for sparring with his Bridget Jones Diary costar Colin Firth? “Colin’s very weak.
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