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British actor Hugh Grant, who has been away from films for almost seven years, has now made a major career comeback with the success of HBO’s The Undoing. The actor now reveals why he took a seven-year break from making movies in the late 2000s.
The Notting Hill actor is well known for playing charmingly blundering leading men in romantic comedies like Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Notting Hill (1999). He had unofficially quit acting with 2007 film with Drew Barrymore, Music and Lyrics. However, he briefly returned in 2009 for the widely panned Did You Hear About The Morgans? which received bad reviews and a box office disaster.
Talking about his seven-year-long break from films, Hugh Grant said to Los Angeles Times, “I developed a bad attitude from about 2005 onwards, shortly after Music and Lyrics. I just had enough. Then I went back in 2009 and made another film. At that point, it wasn’t me giving up Hollywood. Hollywood gave me up because I made such a massive turkey with that film with Sarah Jessica Parker [Did You Hear About the Morgans? Whether I wanted to or not after that, the days of being a very well-paid leading man were suddenly gone overnight. It was slightly embarrassing but it left life free for other things.”
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