Hugh Grant

WITH THE REWRITE hitting cinema’s this month, Hugh Grant finds himself in another role playing a charming, British man-child that struggles to adapt to life outside his comfort zones. So, when he’s called upon to play Keith, an Oscar winning writer, who leaves a life of glitz and glamour behind to teach screenwriting to students, it’s no stretch for experienced Grant. Has Grant become slightly type cast? Perhaps, but with that cheeky charm, it doesn’t really matter! Looking back at Grant’s impressive rom-com career, it’s hard to pick out some of his finest moments, but that exactly what we’ve done.

While you wait for THE REWRITE to hit UK screens, why not dip your toes in Grant’s past and swoon at his top five most charming, movie moments;

  1. “Note to self…Rent Goodfella’s, Casino, Godfather 1,2,3.”
    In 1999, Grant took on the role of Michael Felgate aka Mickey Blue Eyes in Kelly Makin‘s romantic comedy about the young love being rudely interrupted by our heroines mafia family. The beautiful Jeanne Tripplehorn plays our love interest, Gina, with James Caan playing her out-of-his-depth, father. Chaos ensues as Gina’s family coerces Michael into engaging in mafia crime which leads to our first charming movie moment, a collection of scenes in which Grant adopts a strained New York Gangsta accent, an attribute that’s both hilariously bad and strangely endearing.
     
  2. “I want to go out with her, OK. I’d like her to be my girlfriend, there I said it.”
    Playing an emotionally stunted lost boy didn’t seem like too much of a stretch for Hugh in the 2002 film About a Boy. Directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, as well as co-staring a very young Nicholas Hoult, About A Boy tells the story of  commitaphobe Will (Grant) and his unlikely friendship with oddball, Marcus (Hoult). The two of them teach each other about their own bad habits and in turn , Marcus encourages Will to go the one thing he never thought possible. An exceptionally cringe-worthy sounding narrative turns into a genuinely funny and touching story of family, in all it’s forms, with the help of Grant’s typically British dry sense of humor.
     
  3. “I-I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.”
    How could we talk about Hugh’s most charming moments and NOT talk about Sense and Sensibility? We couldn’t! So here it is, your third charming moment, a moment in which Grant takes on the role of Edward Ferrars in the classic Austen adaptation. What’s more charming that a British man in his britches proclaiming his love for national treasure Emma Thompson? Not much, we can tell you. With co-starts like Kate Winslet and James Fleet, Grant really needed to step up his game, and he delivered.
     
  4. “Life is dangerously close to perfection now, actually” Another one of Grant’s earlier movies, Nine Months tells the story of firm couple Samuel (Grant) and Rebecca, played by Julianne Moore. The two of them are in wedded bliss until an unplanned pregnancy rocks their world and leaves Samuel disastrously preparing for fatherhood. Bumbling his way through doctors meetings and trips down the baby aisle, Grant plays an effortlessly likable doofus, leaving audiences rooting for him right to the very end, when he FINALLY, is ready to be a Dad. With brilliant secondary characters played by the likes of Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum and the late Robin Williams, this film oozes charm. 
  5. “Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tear and a chocolate biscuit?”
    Who else could play a Prime Minister that an entire audience can fall for? Only our Hugh. In the 2003 film Love Actually, Grant moved into Downing Street as Britons beloved Prime Minister where he falls hopelessly in love with the tea girl, Martine McCutchen. It was that charming scene in which Grant knocks every door of the ‘rough end’ of Wandsworth, in order to ask Natalie (McCutchen) on a date. Although it worked out alright for Hugh, we’re not sure how it would go down if Mr. Cameron rocked up at our door on Christmas Eve.

So there you have it, your top five most charming movie moments courtesy of Mr.RomCom himself, Hugh Grant. Think we’ve missed out his best charm offences? Let us know! Surely, this has tingled your taste buds for THE REWRITE? Check out the trailer to keep you going:

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