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Hugh Grant is determined not to let his wife watch one of his movies (Picture: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)
While most of us would probably happily watch Hugh Grant’s entire filmography while quoting all the iconic lines, there’s one movie he’d rather forget about.
In fact, he’s gone to extreme measures to prevent his own wife from watching it.
We know and adore him from Maurice (1987), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), and Love Actually (2003), to name just a few.
However, when a journalist recently mentioned his 1995 project Nine Months, the rom-com veteran had a visceral reaction of disgust.
During an interview with Variety, Jenelle Riley noted that Hugh, 64, ‘screamed as if startled’ when she brought up the movie.
Explaining his horrified response, Hugh said: ‘Let me stress, everyone involved with that film, with the exception of me, was brilliant and talented.
He starred opposite Julianne Moore in 1995’s Nine Months (Picture: Phil Bray/20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Hugh reckons his performance ‘let it down’ (Picture: 20th Century Fox/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
‘It was just me that let it down.’
‘My wife wants to watch it, but I’ve forbidden her,’ he added.
‘I’ve put parental controls on the screen so that you can’t get it.’
Hugh married Swedish television producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein, 41, in 2018, so while their wedding vows implore them to be beside one another ‘in sickness and in health,’ we guess no one made any promises regarding dodgy romance flicks.
In Nine Months, Hugh stars opposite Julianne Moore, with the cast also comprising Jeff Goldblum and the late Robin Williams.
Playing a character that became somewhat synonymous with Hugh in the years following, he stars as Samuel Faulkner, a child psychologist who gets the jitters and becomes a commitment-phobe upon learning his girlfriend, Rebecca Taylor, is pregnant.
Directed by Chris Columbus, the movie was Hugh’s first starring role in the States. Despite receiving mixed reviews, it managed to gross $138.5million (£111m) at the box office worldwide.
He married Swedish TV producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein in 2018 (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
This is far from the first time Hugh has slated one of his own movies.
The star, whose films have grossed a total of nearly $3billion (£2.4bn) worldwide, has also previously ripped into the character of William Thackery from Notting Hill, branding the fictional bookshop owner ‘despicable’.
‘Whenever I’m flicking the channels at home after a few drinks and this comes up, I just think, “Why doesn’t my character have any balls?”’ he once declared.
‘There’s a scene in this film where she’s [Anna] in my house, and the paps come to the front door and ring the bell. I think I just let her go past me and open the door. That’s awful.
‘I’ve never had a girlfriend – or indeed now wife – who hasn’t said, “Why the hell didn’t you stop her? What’s wrong with you?” And I don’t really have an answer to that.
‘It’s how it was written. And I think he’s despicable, really.’
The actor, who has branched out in recent years with roles in the Paddington franchise, Wonka (2023), and his latest, Heretic, is set to appear back in the rom-com world on Valentine’s Day.
It would probably be an understatement to say Hugh, pictured here in 2003’s Love Actually, is the rom-com king (Picture: Peter Mountain/Universal/Dna/Working Title/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
He’s not a fan of his character in Notting Hill, though (Picture: Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
Hugh wowed audiences with his latest performance in the twisted horror Heretic (Picture: Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
Reprising the role of Daniel Cleaver, he’ll re-enter the Bridget Jones franchise for Mad About The Boy, the fourth instalment in which Renée Zellweger also returns for, undoubtedly, more chaos.
On rom-coms, Hugh added to Variety that they are ‘hard’ to get right, and he’s come to view them differently over time.
‘I really appreciate the good ones I did,’ he said. ‘The Richard Curtis ones are really about pain.’
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