Hugh Grant recently found a solution to his stress and bad mood on set. It is quite simply classical music, and more precisely that of Beethoven.
“I have to listen to a lot of Beethoven and do really stupid breathing exercises, and then I can achieve this state of total calm in front of the camera, something I’ve been looking for for forty years,” the actor confided on the airwaves from BBC Radio 2. A habit he picked up while preparing for his role as Jeremy Thorpe, a classical music-loving politician, for the series A Very English Scandal in 2018.
A proven method
About twenty years ago, after panic attacks on the sets, a therapist had already advised Hugh Grant to practice breathing exercises, but that was not enough. “It’s weird, you do this for 5-10 minutes and suddenly you start to reach a state of calm,” the star continued. Love Actuallywho particularly fears scenes where he just has to react without dialogue.
“I like dialogue, it relaxes me, but I dread the moments when people say to me, ‘Hugh, you just have to react now, no text, we’re going to take a close-up on your face for a minute,’” -he confessed. So advice to directors who have to work with Hugh Grant: play Beethoven on set and everything will be fine!
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