Actor Hugh Grant does not really believe in the message of romantic comedies, although such films have brought him fame, and he wonders if big love on the big screen is nothing more than “a big lie”, AFP and Agerpres write.

“The big question is whether the whole idea that a man and a woman are absolutely inseparable – what everyone is looking for – is true or is it just a big lie,” the 62-year-old British star said at a press conference in Paris ahead of the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on Wednesday.

“I have the impression that maybe this is a big lie, although I have built my entire career and my entire fortune on her account!” – joked Hugh Grant, the hero of hugely popular romantic comedies such as Notting Hill and Four. Weddings and funerals”.

“I mean, how many really happy relationships do you know? There are not many of them. All these romantic comedies that I’ve been in… it would be interesting to make a few sequels to them, which would probably start with scenes where lawyers who specialize in divorces appear,” the British actor continued.

Irony aside, Hugh Grant spoke in an interview with AFP about the beginning of his career.

“I would like to be more ambitious, to be more “hungry” from a professional point of view,” he regretted. “I could have acted in any movie I wanted, but really at the time I just wanted to watch football matches on TV,” the actor added.

“Too old and too ugly to be a positive hero”

However, lately Hugh Grant has been able to play darker roles. In “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” he plays a power-hungry criminal: “villains suit me perfectly,” said the British star.

“For six or seven years, I’ve finally had some fun because now I’m too old and too ugly to be a positive hero.”

“Basically, I started by playing idiotic characters and voices. And suddenly I was directed to the main roles. I never thought that I was specially made for this (…) It’s really hard to be a hero. They pay well, but it’s hard,” said Hugh Grant.

“Celebrity has changed so much from my era because of social media,” he noted.

“I’ve always dreamed of being in the place of those mysterious movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s, when you didn’t know who the person behind the roles really was, when the actor and his studio could lie as much as they wanted. – said Hugh Grant.

The British star also had a bit of advice for her younger colleagues: “Try to keep a bit of mystery. I don’t have an Instagram account!”.