It stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, with Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles.

He mentioned that he thinks his character is “despicable” “Each time I am flicking the channels at dwelling after a number of drinks and this comes up, I simply suppose, ‘Why would not my character have any balls?'” he mentioned. “There is a scene on this movie the place she’s in my home and the paps (paparazzi) come to the entrance door and ring the bell and I believe I simply let her go previous me and open the door. That is terrible,” he added.

The movie, directed by Roger Michell, options Anna Scott (Roberts) falling in love with William, the proprietor of a bookshop in Notting Hill. Nevertheless, the paparazzi’s fascination together with her complicates their relationship.

“I’ve by no means had a girlfriend, or certainly now spouse, who hasn’t mentioned, ‘Why the hell did not you cease her? What’s fallacious with you?'” Grant added. “And I do not actually have a solution to that – it is the way it was written. And I believe he is despicable, actually,” he mentioned.

In 2016, Grant shared in an interview that he would not “hate” all his motion pictures, though he simply finds it excruciating watching himself onscreen. “I’ve learn that I hate all my movies. That is not true, the movies are sometimes nice. It is simply me that I detest,” he mentioned on the time. “I all the time suppose, ‘Oh you fucked that up.’ You by no means really feel nice about your personal stuff. It is like within the previous days of answering machine messages, you all the time felt nauseated while you heard your personal voice. And watching your self on movie is that instances 50,” Hugh mentioned, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.