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    Hugh Grant Blames Prostitute Arrest on Atrocious Performance in 'Nine Months'

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    The ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ star reflects on his infamous past, during which he was caught engaging in a sex act with Divine Brown in a parked car, when speaking on Marc Maron’s podcast.

    Mar 13, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Hugh Grant’s disappointment at his performance in romantic comedy “Nine Months” drove him to infamously hook up with a prostitute.
    The “Four Weddings and a Funeral” star was arrested in Los Angeles in 1995 after he was caught in a parked car engaging in a sex act with Divine Brown, and he admits the poor decision was prompted by his dismay at the quality of his work following a preview of the film.
    Speaking on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, he said, “I was about to launch my first Hollywood film – my timing was impeccable. My problem was – that was my first Hollywood film and I’d just been to see it.”
    “The film was about to come out a week or two after that, and I had a bad feeling about it. I went to see a screening. Everyone in it was brilliant, but I was so atrocious that I was not in a good frame of mind…”
    Hugh drowned his sorrows at lunch and explained, “One thing led to another. I just was disappointed in myself. I don’t know what was going on.”

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    However, Hugh’s concerns about his performance in the movie – which also starred Julianne Moore, Robin Williams and Jeff Goldblum – didn’t appear to hurt its box office success, going on to bank $138.5 million (£99 million) worldwide.
    “The film did alright at the box office, in fact I think it did quite well, and that’s all Hollywood really cares about,” he shrugged. “They don’t care what you get up to so long as you make them money.”
    Hugh pleaded no contest to the criminal charge and was forced to pay a fine, while he was also placed on two years’ summary probation and ordered to complete an AIDS education program.
    At the time of the incident, Hugh had been dating Elizabeth Hurley, who stayed with him throughout the ordeal. They eventually separated five years later, although they remain close friends to this day.

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      Hugh Grant In Talks for Guy Ritchie's New Spy Movie

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      The ‘Undoing’ actor is reportedly in negotiations to reunite with the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ director in an upcoming feature film which will be fronted by Jason Statham.

      Jan 23, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Hugh Grant is in talks to star in Guy Ritchie’s new spy thriller – his second movie with the British director.
      Deadline report the 60-year-old is set to join Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, and Bugzy Malone in the movie which was formerly titled “Five Eyes” although a deal has not been closed yet.
      Hugh has previously collaborated with Richie when he played the role of Fletcher in the 2019 film “The Gentlemen”.
      The new movie follows MI6 agent Orson Fortune (Statham) who is recruited by a global intelligence agency to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
      Reluctantly paired up with CIA tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globetrotting mission where he will have to use his charm, ingenuity and stealth to infiltrate billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds.

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      Guy is directing and producing from a script written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Bill Block is producing for Miramax, who are fully financing the project – which is being filmed in Qatar and Turkey.
      Hugh Grant only had one TV project last year amid the pandemic, sharing screen with Nicole Kidman” in “The Undoing”.
      He was also quite idle partly because he was taken down by Covid-19 along with wife Anna Eberstein. “I had it, my wife and I had it way back in the winter,” he told Stephen Colbert in November. “I’ve had an antibody test only a month ago.”
      When he was ill, he felt his eyeballs were “about three sizes too big” and he felt as though “some enormous man was sitting on my chest, Harvey Weinstein or someone.”
      “You start to panic because by then people were just starting to talk about this as a symptom,” he shared. “And I started sniffing flowers, nothing, and you get more and more desperate. I started sniffing in garbage cans and you want to sniff strangers’ armpits because you just can’t smell anything. I eventually went home and sprayed my wife’s Chanel No. 5 directly into my face, couldn’t smell a thing. I did go blind.”

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      Hugh Grant Initially Agreed With Criticisms Over Renee Zellweger's Casting as Bridget Jones

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      The ‘Two Weeks Notice’ actor reveals he was left unimpressed at first by the casting of an American actress to play the lead role in the British rom-com.

      Dec 25, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Hugh Grant thought it was a “stretch” for American actress to play British Bridget Jones in the film adaptations of the books at first.
      When Renee Zellweger was cast in the titular role in the movie versions of Helen Fielding’s beloved books, there was a national outcry over why a British actress hadn’t been picked for the role.
      And in a new BBC Two documentary titled “Being Bridget Jones”, Grant – who played Daniel Cleaver in the films – admitted he also had doubts about whether or not Renee would do the role justice.
      “There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” he said. “I didn’t know Renee Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch.”

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      Renee worked hard to nail the British accent she needed to play Bridget, with Hugh adding he was “startled” at first to hear that she sounded just like Queen Elizabeth’s sister Princess Margaret.
      “She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,” Hugh said, adding that a week later Renee’s accent “was bang on.”
      Renee played Bridget in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2001, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” in 2004, and “Bridget Jones’s Baby” in 2016.
      In a 2016 interview, the actress revealed she kept her British accent even when the camera was not rolling. “It’s just really lazy. I don’t want to do the work to get back into everyday,” so she explained.
      She also worked behind the scenes on the ITV breakfast show “Good Morning Britain” to perfect her portrayal as the unlucky-in-love TV producer.

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      Samuel L. Jackson and Hugh Grant Unveiled to Be Part of 'Death to 2020' Mockumentary

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      The comedy special from ‘Black Mirror’ creator Charlie Brooker will also feature Lisa Kudrow, Tracey Ullman, Leslie Jones, Kumail Nanjiani, Cristin Milioti and ‘Stranger Things’ star Joe Keery.

      Dec 8, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, and Lisa Kudrow are among the stars to poke fun at the year that’s been in a new Netflix mockumentary created by “Black Mirror”‘s Charlie Brooker.
      Grant will play a “repellent” historian. British comedian and actress Diane Morgan is also among the cast members. However, much to fans’ disappointment, she is not playing Philomena Cunk, a silly character on TV moments and topical events in Brooker’s darkly comic “Wipe” franchise.
      “Death to 2020” will also feature comediennes Tracey Ullman and Leslie Jones, “Stranger Things” star Joe Keery, and actors Kumail Nanjiani and Cristin Milioti, among others, reports Deadline.
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      In a statement about the spoof special, producers say: “‘Death to 2020’ is a comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was – and perhaps still is? This landmark documentary-style special weaves together some of the world’s most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage spanning the past 12 months.”
      They also describe it as “the cathartic comedy event you’ll never forget about the year you really, really don’t want to remember”, and quip, “Even the creators of ‘Black Mirror’ couldn’t make this s**t up.”
      Brooker also serves as co-executive producer on the quirky new project, alongside Annabel Jones, his creative partner on dystopian anthology series “Black Mirror”. “Death to 2020” marks their first collaboration. Meanwhile, Alison Marlow is set to be the producer.
      A release date for “Death to 2020”, directed by Al Campbell, has yet to be revealed.

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      Hugh Grant's Idea for 'Notting Hill' Sequel Will Ruin the Happy Ending

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      The actor, best known for his roles in 1990s-2000s romantic comedies, says he’s willing to do a sequel of the 1999 movie to prove that happy endings are a ‘terrible lie.’

      Oct 27, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Hugh Grant isn’t buying his character’s picture-perfect marriage in “Notting Hill”. Having starred in a number of romantic comedies from 1990s until 2000s, the actor believes that the happy ending in the 1999 film is not really the end for the fictional couple played by him and Julia Roberts.
      In a Q&A session for his new miniseries “The Undoing”, the 60-year-old revealed what it would take for him to star in a follow-up to the classic movie. “I would like to do a sequel to one of my own romantic comedies that shows what happened after those films ended,” he said. “Really, to prove the terrible lie that they all were, that it was a happy ending.”
      Sharing his idea for the supposed sequel, the British actor continued with a laugh, “I’d like to do me and Julia and the hideous divorce that’s ensued with really expensive lawyers, children involved in [a] tug of love, floods of tears. Psychologically scarred forever.” He added, “I’d love to do that film.”

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      In “Notting Hill”, a chance encounter between William Thacker (Grant), a book store owner in Notting Hill, London, and Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Roberts) leads to an unlikely romance between the two. Complications due to her fame and her unresolved relationship tear them apart, before he makes one last attempt to profess his love for her in public. The pair end up happily married with a baby on the way.
      Grant is also known for his lead roles in romantic comedies such as “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, “Two Weeks Notice”, “Love Actually” and “Music and Lyrics”. In 2019, during The Hollywood Reporter’s drama actor roundtable, he was asked whether he had an “inferiority complex” from always starring in romantic comedies.
      “Well, yes, but less now because I’ve gotten too old and ugly and fat to do them anymore,” he admitted, poking fun at himself, “so now I’ve done other things, and I’ve got marginally less self-hatred.”

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