Post by luciddreams on Nov 18, 2024 6:21:19 GMT -5
Remember this bleh movie from your childhood?
Hugh Grant has some harsh words for his character in Notting Hill.
The actor, 64, took a trip down memory lane with Vanity Fair in a video interview, published on Nov. 14, that saw him watching scenes from previous movies. While doing so, he looked back on his role in the 1999 romantic comedy and said his character William "Will" Thacker was "despicable."
"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 said in the interview, before taking issue with a particular scene that involved Will and his love interest, Julia Roberts' character Anna Scott, a movie star.
"There's a scene in this film where she's in my house and the paps come to the front door and ring the bell, and I think I just let her go past me and open the door, and that's awful," he continued.
"I've never had a girlfriend, or indeed, now wife, who hasn't said, 'Why the hell didn't you stop her? What’s wrong with you?'
He added of his character, "And I don't really have an answer to that. It was how it was written and I think he's despicable, really."
"Good guys are difficult," the actor told PEOPLE at the film’s AFI Fest premiere presented by Canva on Oct. 24. "They're difficult to keep from being boring… I think almost any actor prefers being the damaged, bad guy. It's much more interesting."
The actor, 64, took a trip down memory lane with Vanity Fair in a video interview, published on Nov. 14, that saw him watching scenes from previous movies. While doing so, he looked back on his role in the 1999 romantic comedy and said his character William "Will" Thacker was "despicable."
"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 said in the interview, before taking issue with a particular scene that involved Will and his love interest, Julia Roberts' character Anna Scott, a movie star.
"There's a scene in this film where she's in my house and the paps come to the front door and ring the bell, and I think I just let her go past me and open the door, and that's awful," he continued.
"I've never had a girlfriend, or indeed, now wife, who hasn't said, 'Why the hell didn't you stop her? What’s wrong with you?'
He added of his character, "And I don't really have an answer to that. It was how it was written and I think he's despicable, really."
"Good guys are difficult," the actor told PEOPLE at the film’s AFI Fest premiere presented by Canva on Oct. 24. "They're difficult to keep from being boring… I think almost any actor prefers being the damaged, bad guy. It's much more interesting."
