5. Hugh Grant
Style: Charming English Buffoon Ive yet to see Cloud Atlas, the new Wachowski bros. movie, but Im told that Hugh Grant stars as several cameoing characters throughout and that his performance is in parts completely unexpected. This I cant wait to see. However, in my memory, Hugh Grant plays the same character (quite possibly a caricaturized version of himself) in almost every movie: Music and Lyrcs, both Bridget Jones movies; Two Weeks Notice; Love, Actually; Four Weddings & A Funeral; the list goes on. Even as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in Love, Actually hes the same oh, Im terribly sorry, I seem to have gotten myself all charmingly befuddled quintessential Brit that he is in Notting Hill or Four Weddings. Theyre not terrible performances, not by a long shot, theyre just terribly samey and most probably the very reason were not seeing him marketed nearly as heavily as he once was. That bumbling Brit schtick was fashionable for a while there, but without a greater range, Grant is starting to slip from mainstream public consciousness. I really cant imagine that Grants public persona is all that much different than the person. I mean it
is of course, no one is
exactly who they are in the public eye, but Im of the belief that the charming bumbling Brit weve come to know Grant as probably isnt all
that far from the person he is when they pack the camera away.