Romantic comedies have made him famous, but actor Hugh Grant can't fully believe it... What if true love was a "
good big lie
" on the big screen?
"
The big question is whether the whole idea of a man and a woman being totally inseparable - something everyone is looking for - is true, or if it's a big fat lie," he said
. the 62-year-old Briton is asked during a meeting in Paris ahead of the Wednesday release of
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor of Thieves
.
“
I feel like maybe that's a big fat lie, even though I've made my whole career and built my fortune on it!
, joked the actor of
Love at first sight in Notting Hill
or
Four weddings and a funeral
.
I mean, how many really happy relationships do you know?
There aren't many
, he continued.
All these romantic comedies that I have done, it would be interesting to shoot the sequels now, which would probably start with the divorce lawyers.
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Leaving aside the irony, the actor then addressed, in an interview for AFP, the beginning of his career.
“
I would have liked to be more ambitious, to have longer teeth,
he regretted.
Honestly, I think I was too nonchalant.
I could have tried a lot harder when I was so successful and people were betting on me in Hollywood
,” he added.
I could have made any movie I wanted to, but really, I just wanted to watch football.
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“
Too old and too ugly
”
In recent times, Hugh Grant has still been able to play darker roles.
In
Dungeons & Dragons
, he's a power-hungry criminal: "
Bad guys suit me pretty well
," he says.
For the past six or seven years, I've finally had a little fun, because I'm too old and too ugly to be the hero.
Actually, I started out doing silly characters and voices.
And suddenly, I was directed to leading roles.
I never thought I was particularly made for that (...) It's really difficult to be the hero.
Well paid but challenging.
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Anyway, “
celebrity has changed so much since my time because of social networks
, he notes.
I've always dreamed of being in the shoes of those mysterious movie stars of the 1930s or 1940s, when you didn't know who the real person behind it was, when you and your studio could lie all you wanted.
His advice?
“
Try to maintain a bit of mystery.
Don't have an Instagram account!
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