Hugh Grant
Why he doesn’t do romantic comedies anymore
Hugh Grant has been in the acting business for over 40 years.
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From heartthrob to character actor: Hugh Grant no longer wants to make romantic comedies. This is the reason.
Films like “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1993), “Notting Hill” (1999), “Love Actually” (2003) or the “Bridget Jones” series made Hugh Grant (63) the king of romantic comedies Heartthrob of the 1990s and 2000s. But those days are long gone; in recent years the actor has increasingly been seen in more diverse roles. The reason? “I obviously got too old and fat and ugly to do romantic comedies,” Grant jokes on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” “So I was offered more interesting things.”
“I’ve gotten a little better”
Getting older has given him more fulfilling work, which he says has improved his acting skills. “I’ve gotten a little better,” says Grant in an interview with his former romantic comedy colleague Drew Barrymore (48). “I became a little less bad after I had kids, got married and became happier.”
Most recently, Grant appeared in 2012’s “Cloud Atlas” and 2014’s “How Do You Write Love?” to see. This was followed by character roles in films such as “Codename UNCLE” (2015) or “Florence Foster Jenkins” (2016) and series such as “A Very English Scandal” (2018) or “The Undoing” (2020). In 2022, Grant starred in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, in 2023 in “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”, and he can currently be seen alongside Timothée Chalamet (28) as Oompa Loompa in “Wonka”.
Drew Barrymore hopes for Hugh Grant’s romantic comedy comeback
However, Drew Barrymore is still hoping for Grant to return to his former parade genre – perhaps even together: “We have to do another one,” jokes the actress and presenter. She and Grant appeared together in “Mitten ins Herz – A Song for You” in 2007.