HBO's 'The Undoing': Hugh Grant on upsetting his romantic image

Just how stressed is Hugh Grant, you ask? But after a period of semiretirement a decade ago and a stint as a fierce critic of the British tabloid press, he’s sparked a career renaissance by playing an array of fascinating creeps, dastardly villains and vain enablers who all happen to be, in his words, “rampant narcissists.” These include an egomaniacal actor in “Paddington 2” and a closeted politician who plots to have his male lover murdered in “A Very English Scandal,” which earned Grant his first Emmy nomination. She says Grant has “always had a love-hate relationship with his work,” perhaps because it’s difficult to find roles that tap into “his extraordinary combination of humor and dramatic acting ability.” Television Hugh Grant has a killer role in Amazon’s ‘A Very English Scandal’ In “A Very English Scandal,” streaming as of Friday on Amazon Prime, screenwriter Russell T Davies) and director Stephen Frears tell the story of the British politician Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Josiffe, the former lover he allegedly tried to have killed. But if someone said to me, “Do you have any talent as an actor?” I’d say, “Well, only in regard to character acting.” Do you think you brought character acting into the romantic comedy? He was extremely charming but I could see how one might think, “You might be a little bit too good to be true, my friend, with your wonderful bedside manner and your perfect suits.” Movies Review: The second time is still the charm in the exquisite ‘Paddington 2’ At one point in the new film that bears his name, Paddington Brown, the Peruvian-born, London-dwelling ursine hero with the blue coat and floppy red hat, rattles off the recipe for an unusually large quantity of marmalade.