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Awards Chatter

Hugh Grant - 'Florence Foster Jenkins'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The king of the rom-com, who is now 55, discusses why he stopped making movies for several years ("terrible and embarrassing" stage-fright attacks) until he was coaxed out of retirement to star in a dramedy opposite Meryl Streep ("If you play tennis with Rafa Nadal, you play better tennis"). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and today I am joined by Hugh Grant, the

0:48.4

55-year-old British actor who is the undisputed king of the Romcom,

0:52.2

four weddings and a funeral, Notting Hill,

0:54.7

Bridget Jones's diary, Love Actually, and many others, and who, following a years long absence

1:00.1

from the silver screen, has now returned to it in a very different sort of project.

1:04.6

Florence Foster Jenkins, a drama in which he plays the protective husband of a terrible opera singer,

1:10.0

and for which he has won rave reviews.

1:12.8

Over the course of our conversation, we talk about how Grant, a guy who graduated from Oxford and was headed toward postgraduate studies in art history,

1:20.8

wound up instead an actor. how he adjusted or struggled to

1:24.7

adjust to overnight superstardum, how he came to be so associated with one genre and

1:30.0

how he feels about that, how the British tabloid press, through phone hacking and other means,

1:35.3

has terrorized him and his family,

1:37.5

and how he's fought against it through the hacked-off campaign,

1:40.8

how stage fright of all things drove him away from acting for years, and what it was

1:46.0

like getting back in the game opposite none other than the greatest film actress of all time,

1:51.2

Merrill Street.

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