Hugh Grant Jokes He Put ‘Parental Controls’ on His TV So His Wife Can Never Watch This ‘90s Flop of His

Mar. 15, 2025

Hugh Grantis proud of a lot of his movies — but not this one.

“Let me stress, everyone involved with that film, with the exception of me, was brilliant and talented,” the 64-year-old actor said. “It was just me that let it down.”

“My wife wants to watch it, but I’ve forbidden her,” Grant toldVarietyofhis spouse, Anna Eberstein. “I’ve put parental controls on the screen so that you can’t get it."

Grant also told the outlet thatromantic comediesare “hard” and he’s come to view them in a new light over time. “I really appreciate the good ones I did,” he said. “The Richard Curtis ones are really about pain.” Those movies includeLove Actually,Four Weddings and a Funeral,Notting HillandBridget Jones’s Diary.

Hugh Grant in ‘Music and Lyrics’ in 2007.Castle Rock Ent/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock

Castle Rock Ent/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock

Grant has received awards buzz for his latest part, a villainous role inHeretic, and back in October,he told PEOPLEhe preferred to go to the dark side. “Good guys are difficult,” he explained. “They’re difficult to keep from being boring.”

“I think almost any actor prefers being the damaged, bad guy. It’s much more interesting,” he added.

Hugh Grant in 2024.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

In the last five years, Grant has increasingly moved intomore idiosyncratic roles, including turns in 2017’sPaddington 2and 2023’sWilly Wonka. “Earlier on” in his screen work, he told PEOPLE, he played more sinister characters before pivoting toward romance films.

“I wish that I had kept that going at the same time as I’d been doing the romantic comedy — as much as I love the romantic comedy,” he said.

But if you find romantic comedies formulaic, he doesn’t agree.

“We know Tom Cruise inMission: Impossibleis not in any real danger. We know he’s going to live, but I’m still terrified [for] him when he’s hanging off a plane,” he toldVariety. “So, I think it applies to all genres. I just think ‘com’ is difficult. I don’t know about ‘rom.’ Rom is not easy — and you need to mean it — but com is certainly very difficult."

source: people.com