Cheers, Hugh, yeah.
Hugh Grant is the romcom poster boy. Or at least he was, until he destroyed every single one of our dreams by informing us as to what we already know: that romcoms are fake, and real life is a lot, lot more unforgiving.
Take Notting Hill, for example. It’s a movie about an A-list star who falls in love with a bumbling British bookshop owner after he spills his orange juice all over her blouse in a busy street.
There is little explanation given as to why (and how) she falls for this guy. She just does. And we, the expectant and love-starved audience, are almost falling over ourselves trying to believe it.
Can you blame us, really? Life is bad, the world is questionable, romance is rarely very easy. It makes sense that we’d be more than happy to curl up and watch as Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant get together in the most unrealistic portrayal of boy-meets-girl ever.
And we were. We were entirely willing to believe it all. That was, until, Hugh himself decided to announce that every love story he had ever starred in was, in fact, not true.
But hey, he’s not entirely against the idea of revisiting Notting Hill, so that’s something, alright?
Speaking to Collider, the actor said that if he had to revisit any of the relationships from his movies to see how they were getting on, it’d have to be Anna Scott and William Thacker.
“I’m sure they were all disasters,” he said. “Those films were all lies. I’m sure that my character in Notting Hill and Julia Roberts’ character have been through the ugliest imaginable divorce with really expensive, nasty lawyers.”
Alright, yes, fair, Hugh. But you didn’t have to cut so deep?
This comes a few weeks after Grant made his debut on new HBO drama, The Undoing. The new series has been the talk of the town (social media) ever since it first landed on television screens a few weeks back.
Starring Grant and Nicole Kidman, the series follows Grace, a successful therapist with a devoted husband and young son whose lives change overnight due to an unsolved murder.
Slightly less twee than the ’90s Grant we know and love, and yet still, just as watchable.
