Liz Hurley almost found herself in trouble when her son made her chase Hugh Grant around an airport with a fake dagger.
In an interview with Tatler, her 22-year-old son Damian Hurley confessed that the dramatic event was the ‘finest moment’ in his film career to date. Unsurprisingly, he always aspired to make it in the business, starting his journey towards success from childhood.
He said: “When my mother gave me my first camcorder for my eighth birthday, a despot was born. From that moment, all I wanted was to write and direct movies. I tortured every friend and family member I could get my hands on to act in my self-written, self-directed short films, and I dragged whole suitcases of props, lights and costumes on every vacation.”
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However, nothing compares to the ridiculous occasion he nearly got his mother arrested, when he accidentally convinced the Swiss police that she was a danger to society.
He reminisced: “My finest moment was nearly getting my mother arrested en route to St Moritz when I made her chase my long-suffering godfather Hugh Grant around Zurich airport with a fake dagger, bellowing that she was going to skin him alive.”
From Bridget Jones to Love Actually, it’s fair to say Grant has starred in an array of classics, but surely nothing compared to being chased by a knife-wielding Liz Hurley.
Regardless, while the utter mayhem of the situation is understandably memorable, it pales in comparison to the work Damian is doing today.
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The youngster’s debut film, ‘Strictly Confidential’, is a powerful tale that focuses primarily on the grieving process. In the heartwrenching movie, the family of a dead woman struggle to come to terms with their loved one drowning near her family home in the Caribbean.
And it turns out Damian’s inspiration comes from his own devastating experience of losing a dear friend and his father, Steven Bing, to suicide.
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He bravely explained: “Finally, I unearthed a treatment I’d written when I was 17 in the aftermath of losing a close friend to suicide. At the time, I’d shelved it, deciding I wasn’t yet ready to tell the story, but in the three-year interim, I’d lost a parent, also to suicide, and had been forced to grow up fast.
“I realised I now had the experience to bring the script to life, and Strictly Confidential was born: the story of a young woman who is haunted by the suicide of her best friend and determined to find answers.”
See the full feature in the June issue of Tatler available via digital download and on newsstands from Thursday 2 May.
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