Hugh Grant Talks Seven-Year Hiatus From Movies, Says 'Hollywood Gave Me Up'

Hugh Grant is opening up about his hiatus from Hollywood.

During a new interview, the 60-year-old The Undoing actor explained why he took a seven-year break from making movies in the late 2000s.

“I developed a bad attitude from about 2005 onwards, shortly after Music and Lyrics,” Hugh shared with the Los Angeles Times. “I just had enough. Then I went back in 2009 and made another film. At that point, it wasn’t me giving up Hollywood. Hollywood gave me up because I made such a massive turkey with that film with Sarah Jessica Parker.”

That movie was Did You Hear About the Morgans, which garnered bad reviews and was a big flop at the box office.

“Whether I wanted to or not after that, the days of being a very well-paid leading man were suddenly gone overnight,” Hugh shared. “It was slightly embarrassing but it left life free for other things.”

Those “other things” include parenting his three young kids – born in 2012, 2015 and 2018 – with wife Anna Eberstein.

“I’m an old man with very young children and a very exhausted wife. So it’s just about survival from hour to hour in terms of childcare,” Hugh said.

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