At 64, Grant is enjoying what he calls “the freak-show era” of his career, playing an unlikely rogue’s gallery of suave miscreants.
Hugh Grant has been suffering from brand confusion since 1994, when his performance in “Four Weddings and a Funeral” established him as a quintessentially British romantic hero of winning charm and diffidence. But his recent run of strange and sometimes creepy characters plays so effectively against type that you begin to suspect you were mistaken about his type all along.
“My mistake was that I suddenly got this massive success with ‘Four Weddings’ and I thought, ah, well, if that’s what people love so much, I’ll be that person in real life, too,” he said. “So I used to do interviews where I was Mr. Stuttery Blinky, and it’s my fault that I was then shoved into a box marked ‘Mr. Stuttery Blinky.’ And people were, quite rightly, repelled by it in the end.”
“I said, ‘Go forward’ in Inuit, but those bastard dogs turned 180 degrees around and dragged me away onto the ice,” he said. “They were just laughing at me.”to cast Grant, with his British facility for telling droll anecdotes against himself, in a horror film. Among other things, he is terrified of them and recently walked out of one at a multiplex he had wandered into by mistake with his brother, a banker who lives in New York.
“The first thing out of Scott’s mouth when we came out of the movie was, ‘Hugh Grant,’” Woods said. “We got so excited about the challenging, bold and weird choice of him being in that movie. And in the next 10 years, for our money he became the best character actor around to play edgy, dark characters.”
Hugh Grant in New York, on Sept. 11, 2024. The seemingly droll, breezy star is sentimental about his family and utterly serious about his work, including his villainous turn in “Heretic.”“That whole ‘I don’t like acting and I wish I could be an accountant’ thing — that’s nonsense,” said British actor Hugh Bonneville, aka Lord Grantham of “Downton Abbey,” who appeared with Grant in “Notting Hill” and again in “Paddington 2″ .
There are definitely bits of Cleaver, the toxic but intoxicating boyfriend who drove everyone mad in their 20s, in Grant, too. Asked in a video interview which version was closer to reality — nice in-person Hugh or wicked on-screen Daniel — Zellweger laughed. “I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court,” he said on the social platform X. But under English law, if he won the case in court but was awarded damages that were “even a penny less than the settlement offer” put forward by the company, Grant would have had to pay both sides’ legal costs — upward of 10 million pounds.
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