Hugh Grant can boast of having starred in some of the best romantic comedies of the last thirty years, but there is one he prefers to forget. In an interview given to Varietythe 64-year-old actor was particularly virulent about Nine Months toohis first American film released in 1995.
“My wife (Anna Eberstein) wants to watch it, but I forbid her,” he confided. I put parental controls on the screen so we can’t have it. » Not that the film is a disaster in itself, but the actor is absolutely bad in it.
Self-criticism session for Hugh Grant
“Let me be clear, everyone who participated in this film, with the exception of me, was brilliant and talented,” said Hugh Grant about this feature film in which he plays Julianne Moore. “I’m the only one who sealed it. »
Besides that, the actor says he is proud of his collaborations with Richard Curtis and Marc Lawrence (Love Actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and One Funeral), saluting in passing the way their romantic comedies approach pain. According to him, this is what makes these comedies stick, where other less subtle ones “deflate like a soufflé”.
