Hugh Grant Said That He "Hated" Making "Wonka": "I Have Lots Of Children And Need Money"

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• athos77@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  According to the publication, Hugh joked that the reason he took on the role came down to his five children. "I slightly hate [making films], but I have lots of children and need money," he said.

  Man has a net worth of $150,000,000, he can afford to be picky about the movies he appears in.

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  • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those net worth estimations are always complete bullshit.

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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone hates working and wants money. He isn’t being picky he’s making a joke. A few million for a few days of work as a mostly computer generated character is an easy choice.

    It the movie sucks it won’t hurt his career at all.

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  • baggins@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Use some of your millions to buy some rubbers then. Or get a vasectomy. Twat.

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  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, I don’t even think he knows how many children he has…

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s insane to me that you can get $150 million dollars for being in a few okay movies.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if it’s the case for him but if you have a ridiculous luxury lifestyle 150mil can be burned through real quick.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was huge for a good 10-15 years. And when you have money it is easy to make money passively. So he has had decent investments and a solid A list career with backends for probably 30 years now.

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How much debt does he have though? Or monthly payments?
• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m amazed an actor’s contract allows them to speak disparagingly about a current project they are involved in.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hugh Grant has always jokingly said he hates acting, I think anyone involved in that project will see it in context for what it is.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was also hilarious in the roundtables for D&D, pretending to be befuddled to be in the movie.

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why doesn’t he just get a proper job? And stop having children.

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The bad movies will continue until the economy improves