Hugh Grant's Rom-Com Return Is A Jarring Shift After His 93% Rotten Tomatoes Hit & A 5-Movie Trend
While the trailer forBridget Jones: Mad About The Boylooks promising, it is still strange to see series villain Hugh Grant return to rom-com territory after a string of darker roles. Early in his career, Hugh Grant largely steered clear of darker fare. His lone early horror role, 1988’sThe Lair of the White Worm, was a campy, silly supernatural horror-comedy that leaned into the latter over the former. His biggest successes throughout the ‘90s came in the form of romantic period dramas likeSense and Sensibilityand rom-coms....