‘Parallels with Grant’s own career are drawn in broad strokes: in one scene, he even watches his own 1995 Golden Globes acceptance speech’
Hugh Grant does not have a high level of job satisfaction. He confirmed as much in a strikingly candid interview with Jonathan Ross in 2009, noting that he was “a very limited actor”. Romantic comedies, he said, were about all he could manage, “but yeah, I’m sick to death of kissing the girl in the last act”. Instead, he finds purpose in his work by locating film-makers with whom he shares a certain sensibility. Richard Curtis was the first, but over the last decade it’s writer-director Marc Lawrence who has done the most to shape Grant’s career.
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Hugh Grant does not have a high level of job satisfaction. He confirmed as much in a strikingly candid interview with Jonathan Ross in 2009, noting that he was “a very limited actor”. Romantic comedies, he said, were about all he could manage, “but yeah, I’m sick to death of kissing the girl in the last act”. Instead, he finds purpose in his work by locating film-makers with whom he shares a certain sensibility. Richard Curtis was the first, but over the last decade it’s writer-director Marc Lawrence who has done the most to shape Grant’s career.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.