His career has spanned forty years: Hugh Grant’s very first feat was the role of Lord Adrian in the Oxford Film Foundation’s obscure student film Privileged in 1982. But we know Hugh Grant mostly from unforgettable lighthearted romantic comedies like Four Weddings. And A Funeral’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and ‘Love Actually’. It wasn’t a boast when Hugh Grant announced four years ago that he would ignore those roles from now on. However, they had made him extremely popular and rich for decades – his net worth is estimated at about 150 million dollars. But his popularity in those successful rom-coms weighed on the actor, he admitted three years ago. “I’m too old and fat for these roles now,” he joked to The Hollywood Reporter. “So I get the chance to do other things, which makes me hate myself a little less. I had an inferiority complex permanently because I was ‘that guy from the romantic comedies’.” When asked what he would have done differently in his career, he resolutely replied: “Just about everything. Every decision I’ve ever made was probably wrong. I should have made more interesting choices to be able to do other things. Instead, I repeated myself about seventeen times in a row. Don’t get me wrong, most of the romantic comedies I’ve been in are nothing to be ashamed of. There may have been one or two shocking films, but I’m not dissatisfied with the rest. And people like the movies.”
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