What was it that made you opt for this fantasy title?
Two months after seeing him as the villain of ‘Fortune Operation: The Great Hoax’, Hugh Grant now returns with another role as less suspicious: the actor plays Forge Fitzwilliam, a guy with loads of charm and a con man. And the film is none other than ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, one of the latest hits to hit theaters.
The actor, who is already 62 years old, has done a lot in this first part of the year. On the one hand, in the Guy Ritchie film released last January. Also on the night of the Oscars, the actor starred in one of the most commented and humorous moments of the ceremony, when he went on stage with his partner from ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, Andie MacDowell, and commented on the appearance and the skins of each one…
Now the Englishman is part of the cast that John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein have brought together for the new adaptation of the famous role-playing game. A charming thief and a band of incredible adventurers go on an epic heist to recover a lost relic, but things go horribly wrong when they run into the wrong people.
About his role in the film, Grant has nothing but good words. He has recognized this in the number of PHOTOGRAMS for the month of Aprilin which he has also made a great confession about other possible roles he could have had.
“Lately I feel very comfortable with this class of characters. The more false, terrible and selfish, the better. I don’t know if I should worry” joked the actor who, for the first time in his career, embarks on a fantastic blockbuster. I had been offered to participate in a few before. Marvel, for example, has pitched it to me a couple of times, but I never felt the same enthusiasm that I did with this one. The script took me by surprise. I found it very funny and extremely exciting. I didn’t expect it at all. Plus, he has a Monty Python-like sense of humor that I really connect with.”
Along with Grant are actors and actresses from different generations in the film such as Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman and Jason Wong. The film has been very well received in theaters. having collected at the international box office more than 71 million dollars. In Spain it has been the most-watched opening in theaters this past weekendbeating a heavyweight like ‘John Wick 4’.
We do not know if this work will encourage Hugh Grant to take more fantasy projects, or even Marvel if he finally accepts. In these months we have already seen him in two different jobs, in addition to his brief appearance in ‘Punches in the back: the mystery of the Glass Onion’, and he will also appear in another Netflix production, ‘Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story’, a comedy based on the rivalry between Kellogg’s and Post that also includes Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden and Christian Slater.
Source: Fotogramas
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