Hugh Grant has said he will no longer star in romcoms now that he is “older and uglier” and is getting offered a greater variety of roles.
And getting older and uglier has made the parts, you know, more varied.”
Grant, 57, who plays the late Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC drama A Very English Scandal, said there was less judgment about working in television today compared with the early days of his career.
A Very English Affair, a three-part drama written by Russell T Davies and directed Stephen Frears, is Grant’s first TV role since the 1990s.