Hugh Grant: 'Audiences hate actors'
Hugh Grant shared his views
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Hugh Grant says he believes that audiences "hate" actors and like to see them be "mocked".
When Cary Elwes’ face pops up on my computer screen, the first thing that occurs to me is, oh look, it’s Westley. Although the actor’s now 60, and it’s been a good 35 years since he made The Princess Bride, he hardly seems to have aged a day, and beams winningly through the ether from Los Angeles, his home of many years. When he finds out I’m Irish, he tells me: “Oh, I love Dublin, I’ve made a few films at Ardmore — we had great fun.”