Hugh Grant Doesn't Imitate In 'A Very English Scandal'

Hugh Grant is all smiles as he hits the carpet at the Amazon Prime Experience Hosts: A Very English Scandal FYC screening and panel held at the Hollywood Athletic Club on Sunday (April 28) in Hollywood.

The 58-year-old actor was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor In A Limited Series this year for his role in A Very English Scandal as former British MP Jeremy Thorpe, the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder. It was Grant’s first British TV role since the early 1990s

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“It’s a long time since I played a real person who actually lived. I did Frederic Chopin years ago in the 80s but I can’t think of another one since then,” Hugh recently expressed. “It does present its own set of problems because there’s the temptation to do an imitation, especially when you’ve got archive footage, as we have of Jeremy Thorpe. And then you worry that if you do that, it may be a bit too one-dimensional and that you need to reinvent him in your own way. So it’s finding a balance. It’s rather like what they did with my make-up and hair. It’s a good nod towards the real Jeremy Thorpe but it’s not an entire facsimile of him.”