Hugh Grant has said that he almost missed out on his role in Four Weddings And A Funeral as producers thought he was too “posh” for the role.
The actor appears on The Graham Norton Show this week and told the presenter that while people may think that the role was written especially for him, he did not have good memories of the casting experience.
“I had to audition and in fact I was very much unwanted. Richard Curtis did everything in his power to stop me getting the part after the audition. I remember it was a very traumatic audition. It was in the Jim Henson studio for some reason and in front of the writer, director, producer and 50 full size Muppets, which was unsettling.
“I read the speech I had made at my brother’s wedding, which I thought would charm them but I think it slightly sickened them. I think they wanted someone rather more middle of the road and thought I was too hoity-toity posh. But I got the part in the end because I don’t think they could find anyone else!”
