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Hugh Grant Recalls Role That Saved His Career & Roles He “Turned Down”
Following 2009's 'Did You Hear About the Morgans', Hugh Grant credited his role in 2012's 'Cloud Atlas' with reviving his career.
The Golden Globe winner reflected on playing six roles in the sibling filmmakers’ 2012 feature adaptation of Cloud Atlas after his 2009 comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? Cram someone recognizable in here.’ They would’ve thought, ‘Oh, we don’t really want Hugh Grant, but we’ll give him some tiny parts.’ They will deny that but I think it’s partly what happened.” “I’ve turned down a few that I thought were insufficient in quality or independence allowed to the filmmakers—you felt like a big corporation [was] breathing down the neck of these filmmakers, and I don’t want to make that decision.”
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