By Laura D’Angelo – Published on 21 Nov 2024 at 12:30
At 64, Hugh Grant did not hesitate to recall his arrest, while he was having sex with a prostitute.
A prestigious guest. This Wednesday, November 20, 2024, Hugh Grant was on the set of Dailyto promote his latest film, Heretic. If the actor is used to rather romantic roles, Lately, he's been playing more nasty characters.
Hugh Grant exceptional guest of Quotidien
Yann Barthès then wanted to know more about these choices. “I don’t know, these are the roles that I’m being offered at the moment because I’m old,” he confided with a smile. “But it’s a moment in my career that amuses me a lot, all the actors prefer that,” he said. And for him, roles in romantic comedies no longer tempt him: “It’s in the past, I hope anyway.
The bad guys are much easier for me to play because, ultimately, it's 'me'. When I played the lead role in all the romantic comedies,
It was a big lie”. Amazing confidences for someone who has already had problems with the law. Indeed, in 1995, Hugh Grant made the headlines for a rather surprising reason.
The actor caught in the act with a prostitute
He is then photographed in train to get a prostitute into his vehicle. Followed by the police, the actor will be arrested right at the moment when the young woman was performing oral sex on him. Questioned several years after the events, Hugh Grant admitted to having done something
“completely crazy”.The star of Foster
Jenkins had specified that he had become aware that he had
“hurt the people he loves and embarrassed the people I work with.” “Everyone thinks 'Oh, well he's just bitter because he was arrested with a prostitute in 1995'“, he said with a laugh. But for him, one thing is certain… It was the police who revealed this dark affair to journalists, which could well have cost him his career.
The star fined $100,000
Hugh Grant also attacks the tabloids: “These big newspaper owners live above the law and invade the privacy of people whose children are killed in a road accident or other to get the sensational article“, he said. At the time, the actor had been sentenced fined $100,000.He was forced to participate in an AIDS education program. A memory that makes him smile today. But at the time, Hugh Grant almost lost everything. Notably his notoriety, he who was then known for playing roles in romantic comedies.
