{"id":2209593,"date":"2024-03-30T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T14:18:41","slug":"hugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant Contemplates Major Career Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2209593&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood star Hugh Grant discusses considering\u2063 a shift into politics during an interview with\u200c Entertainment Weekly. The 63-year-old actor, known for &#8220;Notting Hill,&#8221; reflects \u200con his\u2063 previous disinterest in politics and shares insights on political figures. Grant&#8217;s\u200c contemplation on transitioning\u2064 into politics has garnered attention and curiosity \u200bsurrounding \u200bhis potential career trajectory. \u200cActor \u200bHugh Grant, famous for &#8220;Notting\u200c Hill,&#8221; \u2063has sparked interest by\u2063 discussing a potential move into\u2064 politics. In an\u200d interview\u2064 with Entertainment Weekly, the 63-year-old reflects\u200d on his past\u2063 disinterest in\u200d politics, offering insights \u2063on political figures. Grant&#8217;s contemplation about entering \u2063politics \u2062has piqued curiosity about the\u2062 direction of \u200chis\u2062 career.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hugh-grant-says-he-hated-playing-oompa-loompa-in-new-wonka-movie-like-a-crown-of-thorns\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hugh Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  definitely got everyone\u2019s attention after he recently let it slip that he has considered embarking on a new career in politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the 63-year-old actor\u2019s interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/hugh-grant-the-regime-going-into-politics-crossed-my-mind-8619378#:~:text=From%20playing%20the%20prime%20minister,Vernham%20on%20HBO's%20The%20Regime.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entertainment Weekly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the \u201cNotting Hill\u201d star said he was never \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interested in politics at all until\u201d he was about 50.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI sneered at politics, and then, I found myself campaigning about the abuse of power in the British tabloid press here in the U.K,\u201d Grant explained. \u201cI spent an awful lot of time in the House of Parliament lobbying politicians and got to know them up close and see what weird specimens they were or became in the course of their careers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cVery often starting with conviction and passion and ending up a couple of decades later, these slightly monstrous professionals of the political game of snakes and ladders,\u201d the \u201cWonka\u201d star continued. \u201cTheir priorities were 1.) their own career, 2.) their own party and smashing the other party, and somewhere, way down the list, was what\u2019s good for the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 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You\u2019ve got to bring so many people with you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said whenever the \u201csubject\u201d of running comes up, his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein\u2019s mother, Susanne Eberstein, who previously served as a member of the Swedish parliament, tells him don\u2019t do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cShe just says, \u2018Don\u2019t. You have to water down everything. It\u2019s all horse trading. And nowadays the incoming abuse is unthinkable,&#8217;\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Grant explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn 2019, the last general election here in the U.K., I did mount a tiny campaign to try and persuade people to vote tactically because in our electoral system, this was the way to prevent Boris [Johnson] and company getting back into power,\u201d he added. \u201cI campaigned in a few marginal constituencies for whoever was the closest rival to the Conservative candidate. Actually, I did very badly. We lost in every single constituency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cTwo Weeks Notice\u201d star said during his brief political stint he learned \u201cyou have to be either very brave or insane to go into politics in the digital age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cLove Actually,\u201d Grant played a single Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the popular 2003 romantic comedy, alongside a host of stars such as Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, and Keira Knightley. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More recently, the actor played the leader of the opposition in the political satire miniseries \u201cThe Regime,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/26\/entertainment\/hugh-grant-politics-scli-intl\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Hugh Grant surprised many by hinting at a potential move into politics during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. The 63-year-old star, known for &#8220;Notting Hill,&#8221; admitted he hadn&#8217;t been interested in politics until his 50s, stating, &#8220;I sneered.&#8221; Hugh&#8217;s revelation has sparked curiosity about a possible shift in his career trajectory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2209594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1410189513.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1410189513.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}