“The interesting question to me has always been why audiences prefer the baddie and always have done,” said Grant, 65

Perhaps we love villains the way we do because people are inherently evil, Hollywood star Hugh Grant said, with a twinkle and a grin, speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday.

It seemed a fitting combination of the two Grants the world has come to know.

The actor who redefined the romcom hero as an awkward-witty-messy Everyman in movies such as (1994), (1999) and (2003) has spent the past decade in a sort of villain era, featuring rather malevolently in films such as (2017), (2019) and the twisted psychological thriller (2024), and indulging his love for the “weird” in roles such as that of the unforgettable Oompa-Loompa in Wonka (2023).

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