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American audience saw this cracking good mystery as a departure from the comedies that Grant has become so well known for, but in fact his reputation on the Continent is built on roles such as Night Train to Venice, Impromptu and Polanski's Bitter Moon in addition to the Merchant and Ivory Remains of the Day and Maurice.
HG: We were jubilant when he took the part. We were sitting around saying, "If we could get Gene Hackman for this role [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that would be ideal but we won't get him And then he took the bait and that was a champagne day. But from then on I was gibbering at the prospect of having to play against this guy. He is an enormous film star in my book and he always looks like he is furious. I was terrified that his trailer would be unclean or something not to his satisfaction. As it turned out, he couldn't be less like that. He is very
You received the Golden Globe and British Academy Award for Four Weddings and a Funeral but would you prefer to be known for more serious work?
How hard is it to go back into the movies just as an actor?
What sold you on doing Extreme Measures? Had you read the book?
HG: We obsessed on it. We became a pair of nutters. We developed the script for a year and then produced it for a year, so we thought about nothing else. Start to go a bit mad. It is quite intense but we loved it. Especially after years and years of just acting where you've been sitting there thinking, "just put the camera there." To be allowed to say those things was very liberating.
What did you learn from director Michael Apted?
How did it feel to have more control over the process of the movie making with Extreme Measures?
Hugh Grant: I hadn't read the book and to be absolutely honest I still haven't read the book because the script once we had found it was already a long way from the book. Elizabeth (Hurley, Grant's ex-girlfriend and producer) found the script and showed it to me. It was the kind of film I really admire, that is - it's thrilling and entertaining and edge of your seat and all that. There is a moral ambiguity to it that I found particularly appealing. As a by-product it was nice to have something that could edge me out of that comedy corner that I've found myself backed into at least in America.
HG: That's a tough question. The thing I'm really queenie about is whether or not the script is any good. To be honest with you I don't really care if it's comedy [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], serious or a musical. Well [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I would care if it was a musical. You'd care. On the whole I like it when there are a few jokes around. Even in a serious thing it helps, that's why I wrote in a few jokes, particularly in the first half of this film.
HG: It will be hard. Just the other day I came close to committing to another Hollywood project which would be just me as an actor and I think that's why one of the reasons I weaseled out of it at the last moment. I think you get a taste for power and there's no turning back, like Mussolini.
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HG: He's the master of practicality. They say film making is ninety-eight percent organization and two percent inspiration and he got that two percent but he certainly got that ninety-eight percent. If you aren't really organized you don't have a chance to be creative on the day on the set. He's terrifyingly organized particularly about punctuality. He'd go nuts if you were two minutes late on the set. Even to me and I hired him which is ridiculous!
What about Gene Hackman? Where you surprised that he accepted a part that was rather small?