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Hugh Grant and rom-coms were a match made in movie heaven. The floppy-haired charmer ruled the ’90s with Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. His bumbling, awkward-yet-smooth persona made him the ultimate leading man. But there comes a time when even the king of romance must hang up his crown. And when that time came, Grant took a wild left turn.
Goodbye, lovestruck bookshop owner. Hello, eccentric oddball. He went full throttle into quirky and villainous roles. From the theatrical Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2 to a scheming private investigator in The Gentlemen, he reinvented himself brilliantly. His recent roles in Wonka and Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted prove he’s having fun—and audiences love it.
But there was one genre he avoided like the plague: horror. His only brushes with the spooky side were The Lair of the White Worm and Night Train to Venice—both from the early ‘90s. After that? Not a single ghost, demon, or slasher in sight. Turns out that Grant has a pretty solid reason. In an interview with Associated Press, the now 64-year-old admitted:
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