Hugh Grant hates the web.
In an interview with Selection, Grant defined one of many causes he loathes the World Vast Internet. His story begins through the press tour for Wonka. Throughout an enormous press convention with the entire solid, somebody requested if that they had loved making the movie.
“Everybody stated, ‘Sure, we beloved it. We beloved it. We beloved it. And once they acquired to me, only for a comedy second on the finish, I stated, ‘I hated it.’” [To him, it was obviously a joke.] “However on the net, it’s develop into a incontrovertible fact that I hated making that movie. And I didn’t hate it in any respect; I beloved making it. I’m completely thrilled with it. That’s what the web does. It scrubs humor, and it scrubs context to create little clickbait moments. It’s one of many causes I detest it with such violence, actually.”
What Is Hugh Grant Working On Subsequent?
The 2020s have been busy for Hugh Grant. In 2023 and 2024 alone, he appeared in seven whole tasks.
- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves
- Wonka
- The Regime (TV Mini Collection)
- Unfrosted
- Heretic
- Paddington in Peru
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The stand-out tasks from that listing—D&D, Wonka, and Heretic— all have one factor in widespread: Grant performs towards kind.
For therefore lengthy, he was simply the rom-com man. A good-looking, charming Englishman audiences beloved to observe fall in love. Honor Amongst Thieves let Grant be a charmer but additionally the dastardly villain. Wonka let him be, of all issues, the orange-skinned, green-haired Oompa Loompa. It was not a leading-man sort of function. After which in Heretic he goes chillingly sociopathic and performs the “monster” in a horror film.
He was so convincing in Heretic that he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Finest Actor in a Movement Image — Musical or Comedy.
So what’s subsequent? Surprisingly, a return to his former rom-com methods. Grant has one film slated for 2025, and that’s Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy. He returns as Daniel Cleaver. That is the third Bridget Jones film Grant will star in, however the first since 2004’s The Fringe of Cause. The character was absent from 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child. So we’ll see how the franchise works Mr. Grant again into issues.
For these of you who need extra of Hugh Grant’s darker aspect, we’ll should see what materializes in 2025. Personally, I’m actually hoping for an additional A24 challenge. Possibly we’ll hear some casting information quickly.
Wonka
- Launch Date
- December 15, 2023
- Solid
- Sally Hawkins , Olivia Colman , keegan-michael key , Rowan Atkinson , Timothee Chalamet , Jim Carter
- Director
- Paul King
- Writers
- Paul King , Simon Farnaby
- Prequel(s)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility
- Finances
- $125 million
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Photos
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Photos