Hugh Grant slates one of his most iconic 90s characters as ‘despicable’

Hugh Grant has landed genuinely iconic roles implicit the years, including immoderate classical rom-coms, but there’s 1 portion successful peculiar that helium truly can’t stand.

The 64-year-old is astir known for his stints successful Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and the Bridget Jones’s Diary franchise among many, many others.

He volition besides beryllium making different quality arsenic Daniel Cleaver successful the upcoming Mad About The Boy sequel.

However, unpacking his awesome resume successful a caller interrogation with Vanity Fair, the Heretic histrion took aim astatine his quality successful 1999 rom-com Notting Hill, branding the fictional William Thacker ‘despicable’.

‘Whenever I’m flicking the channels astatine location aft a fewer drinks and this comes up, I conscionable think, “Why doesn’t my quality person immoderate balls?”’ helium declared.

‘There’s a country successful this movie wherever she’s [Anna] successful my house, and the paps travel to the beforehand doorway and ringing the bell. I deliberation I conscionable fto her spell past maine and unfastened the door. That’s awful.

‘I’ve ne'er had a woman – oregon so present woman – who hasn’t said, “Why the hellhole didn’t you halt her? What’s incorrect with you?” And I don’t truly person an reply to that.

‘It’s however it was written. And I deliberation he’s despicable, really.’

In Notting Hill, penned by Richard Curtis, Julia Roberts starred arsenic Hollywood histrion Anna Scott, who stumbled upon a publication shop owned by bumbling William (Hugh), earlier they embarked connected a whirlwind romance.

As their narration took a dive, she famously uttered the words: ‘I’m besides conscionable a girl, lasting successful beforehand of a boy, asking him to emotion her’.

Rhys Ifans, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers and Gina McKee besides made up the cast, portion Roger Mitchell served arsenic director.

Although Hugh wasn’t thrilled astir his ain character, helium had thing but praise for his electrical co-star, adding: ‘Probably each the clip with Julia, arsenic with immoderate superb actress, you’re conscionable thinking, “Oh Christ, they’re truly good. I’m not going to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic her.”

‘She’s large astatine emoting, and she’s got that prime wherever it looks similar her tegument is wafer thin. You tin benignant of spot her soul.’

Julia antecedently reflected connected the flick earlier this twelvemonth successful a chat with Richard for British Vogue, and admitted that she astir rejected the connection wholly arsenic she was ‘so uncomfortable’ with the role.

‘Honestly, 1 of the hardest things I’ve ever had to bash was your movie, playing a movie actress. I was truthful uncomfortable,’ she said.

‘I mean, we’ve talked astir this truthful galore times, but I astir didn’t instrumentality the portion due to the fact that it conscionable seemed – oh, it conscionable seemed truthful awkward.

‘I didn’t adjacent cognize however to play that person.’

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