The actor Hugh Grant 64, not a big fan of his character in the romantic comedy “A Place Called Notting Hill” from 1999. During a conversation for Vanity Fair’s “Scene Selection”, he talked about playing William Thacker, Julia Roberts’ love interest in the role of Anna Scott.
“Whenever I’m flipping through the channels at home after a few drinks and this movie comes on, I just think, ‘Why doesn’t my character have courage?’,” Grant said. “There’s a scene in the movie where she’s at my house and the paparazzi come to the front door and ring the doorbell, and I think I just let her walk past me and open the door. This is terrible.”
In the film, Anna is a famous actress who falls in love with William, a bookseller from Notting Hill. This means he had to deal with his fame, including the omnipresent paparazzi, something Grant said his character didn’t do well.
“I’ve never had a girlfriend, or now wife, who hasn’t said, ‘Why the hell didn’t you stop her? What’s wrong with you?’,” Grant commented on the scene. “And I don’t really have an answer for that. That’s how it was written. And I think he’s despicable, really.”
Grant rose to fame playing romantic leads, but has been self-critical about some of his past performances.
“I’ve read that I hate all my films. That’s not true, the movies are often great. It’s only myself I hate. I always think, ‘Oh, you messed this up.’,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. “You never feel good about your own work. It’s like in the old days of answering machine messages, you always felt nauseous when you heard your own voice. And watching yourself in a movie is that multiplied by 50.”
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