Hugh Grant is opening up about his career. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the 64-year-old Bridget Jones’s Diary star spoke out about a time in his career when he was “marooned,” following the release of Did You hear About the Morgans?
in 2009. During the discussion, he spoke about The Wachowkis offering him a role in 2012′s Cloud Atlas, which changed everything. Keep reading to find out more… “I was completely marooned,” he said of his career after Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which tanked at the box office. “The Wachowskis offered me just a few small little parts in Cloud Atlas, and to be honest, I was probably only offered that because some of their international distributors had said, ‘We need some more recognizable names.
Cram someone recognizable in here,’” he continued. “They would’ve thought, ‘Oh, we don’t really want Hugh Grant, but we’ll give him some tiny parts.’ They will deny that but I think it’s partly what happened.” He played six different roles in the adaptation, including one that he personally added to the script: Ben Whishaw’s onscreen husband. “I thought, Oh yeah, I used to really enjoy doing characters — in fact, I almost used to enjoy acting.
I started out doing silly voices, odd people, making people laugh at university, and then doing this comedy show in London. It was doing characters.
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