Hugh Grant thinks his ‘Notting Hill’ character was ‘despicable’

  

Plenty of people loved Hugh Grant’s character in the 1999 rom-com Notting Hill,” but Grant is not one of them.

He talked about playing William Thacker, opposite Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, during a conversation for Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection.”

Whenever I’m flicking the channels at home after a few drinks and this comes up, I just think, ‘Why doesn’t my character have any balls?’” Grant said. There’s a scene in this film where she’s in my house and the paps come to the front door and ring the bell and I think I just let her go past me and open the door. That’s awful.”

In the film, Anna is a famous actress who falls in love with William, a Notting Hill bookseller. That meant having to navigate her fame, including the ever present paparazzi, something Grant said his character did not do well.