Hugh Grant Talks about the Craziness of The Wachowski's CLOUD ATLAS
Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, About a Boy, The Pirates) recently sat down with Empire to discuss his upcoming projects. During the interview he shared some crazy cool details about working on Tom Tykwer's and Lana and Andy Wachowski's Cloud Atlas.
Here is what Grant had to say:
I have six cameo parts in this strange, ambitious film. I do a lot of killing and raping. I wear an awful lot of prosthetic make up, too. You probably won’t know that I am in the film! But it was a laugh. I thought before I read it that I’d turn it down, which I normally do, but I was interested in meeting the Wachowskis because I have always admired them enormously. And they are so charming and fascinating.
Grant describes the roles as "incredibly evil," and revealed what it was like to be cast against type:
I slightly called my own bluff. In one of the parts I am a cannibal, about 2000 years in the future, and I thought, 'I can do that. It’s easy.' And then I am suddenly standing in a cannibal skirt on a mountaintop in Germany and they are saying, 'You know, hungry! We must have that flesh-eating, like a leopard who is so hungry...' and I am thinking, 'I can’t do that! Just give me a witty line!'
Cloud Atlas
has finished filming, and now the directors are hard at work on editing the complex story together. Grant stated that the film is the biggest independent film of his career and says:
It will be fascinating to see how it turns out. I have seen little bits of cut footage and it is just astonishing. I probably had 20 shooting days, and each of them is shooting their own part of the film with their own crews. It’s remarkable.
The movie sounds epic in scope, and I can't wait for a trailer. It will be interesting to see how the film comes together. What are your thoughts?
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