Hugh Grant Signals End to Acting Career
OK, here’s what I want to know…Hugh Grant had an acting career? Look, the guy’s not exactly the second coming of Sir Laurence Olivier, if you know what I mean. From I can tell, Grant made a “career” out of playing the same character over and over: a bumbling but well-meaning dolt always seems to get the girl in the end by being such a thoroughly decent and guileless human being. That’s acting? Somewhere, Sir John Gielgud is spinning furiously in his grave….
LONDON (AP) - Hugh Grant says he’s lost interest in acting and is heading into retirement. Grant, who plays heartthrob Daniel Cleaver in “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” was quoted Thursday by the Evening Standard’s Metro magazine as saying film acting is a “miserable experience.”
“It’s so long and boring and so difficult to get right,” Grant said.
“I am sort of semiretired,” he said. “I keep thinking I’m going to write a brilliant script.”
Grant, whose screen credits include “Four Weddings and a Funeral,”“Notting Hill” and the first “Bridget Jones” movie, gained international notoriety when he was caught in a car with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown in 1995.
Gee, you really have to feel for a guy who seems to suffer so egregiously for his art, eh? Well, no, you really don’t. How many people bust their hump driving a beer truck or working on an assembly line day in and day out…and we’re supposed to feel sorry for a guy who makes an obscene amount of money for pretending to be other people? Gimme a f——-g break, willya?
Yes, Hugh Grant has made a bunch of money for repeating essentially playing himself in the same role over and over, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It’s nice work if you can get it (if it can in fact be called “work”), but as far as his whining about suffering, well, this is truly the mark of a DUMB@SS who is too self-absorbed to realize just how truly blessed he is. Let’s put him behind the wheel of a beer truck for a day and see how he does…I’d hazard a guess that the “miserable experience” of acting would seem much less unbearable.
It sounds like someone could benefit from a healthy dose of perspective, eh??
