2/13/2023 0 Comments Paddington 2 hugh grant![]() This despite the fact that Cloud Atlas showcased Grant’s surprising range six years ago: Playing six characters across six different timelines, including an odious counterculture-era CEO and a post-apocalyptic cannibal, Grant alternates between playing funny, weird, and legitimately scary in the Wachowskis’s batshit epic. Paul King’s film also knowingly addresses the lingering notion that Grant is a one-trick pony, and gives Grant the room to dispel it. ![]() No longer do we laugh with Grant, the bumbling Englishman, as his self-deprecatingly vain and desperate turn in Paddington 2 encourages us to laugh at him. The part encourages Grant to play to his comedic strengths-only with a different kind of comedy, broader and more absurd. He’s portraying the outright villain and has no romantic foil, because Buchanan’s far too in love with himself. As it trashes our idea of Grant, Paddington 2 opens up new avenues for the actor. You could almost say that Paddington 2 is Grant’s The Wrestler moment: a tailor-made role that reckons with the actor’s life and career up to that point.
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