Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / Hugh Grant Was Convinced This Film, That Made Him a Star, Would Tank

Transcript

Hugh Grant Was Convinced This Film, That Made Him a Star, Would Tank · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, the nineteen ninety four
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: romcom Four Weddings and a Funeral is an all time
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: classic and transformed Hugh Grant from working actor to a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: household name, and was for quite a while the highest
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: grossing British film of all time. But Hugh himself, just
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: ad minute before it came out, he was positive it
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: was going to be a bust, he tells Indie Wire.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: It's true. We were all sure we've made a giant
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: turkey until the film had its first previous I was
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: clearly wrong. In The film changed my life. It was
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: the beginning of a happy friendship with screenwriter Richard Curtis.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: I've always had the greatest respect for director Mike Newell.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: He taught me things I used to this day. This
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: was the first movie written by Richard Curtis. It starred Hugh,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: but certainly not the last. They went on to make
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Bridgie Jones Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and more. That's
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.