Hugh Grant has said that as he gets older he is more drawn to “revolting roles”.
The actor, who turned 60 on 9 September, insists he is very different to the sensitive heartthrobs he portrayed in Nineties Richard Curtis films, from William in Notting Hill to Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
“Richard always found it hilarious that the public might think I really was that nice guy in his films, because he knew very differently,” Grant told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine. “That was a real bit of character acting, because that Mr Nice Guy’s never been me.”
He added: “I do find that as I grow older I’m increasingly drawn to, and more comfortable in, revolting roles.”
In recent years, Grant has played baddies such as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2 and Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal.
In the same interview, Grant expressed his relief that his five children have stopped him from “turning into a slightly scary old golf-addicted bachelor”, which he admits was the direction he’d been heading in.
Grant will next appear in the Sky drama The Undoing alongside Nicole Kidman, which premieres next month.
