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Hugh Grant has a great regret about his three decades of acting career – and this is not the one you may be thinking of.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 58-year-old star lamented that he would like to know more about "fame and success".

"Every decision I made was probably wrong," he told the branch. "After (" Four Weddings and a Funeral, "published in 1994), and the world was my oyster, I should have made some interesting decisions and made different things." Instead, I almost repeated myself to the identical about 17 times in a row. "

Laughing, he said that it was hard to give up the mentality of an unemployed actor, even after he managed: "I took it all in. Plus it was worse , the faster I had it. "

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Grant admitted that he knew from the outset that some movies would be bad, but that he "liked" them for that very reason.

"You think," Oh, well, that's absurd, this movie ("Rowing With the Wind", 1988), it's shot in Spain with English actors, with a director who neither speaks English money nor German, it is never going to see the light of day, so go ahead and have a good time for three months by flirting with the actress who plays Claire Claremont. "

He got something out of it: this actress happened to be Elizabeth Hurley, with whom he had gone out until 2000.

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Hugh Grant at the Golden Globe Awards in 2017. (Photo: Dan MacMedan / USA TODAY NETWORK)

And in case the The following of "Four Weddings" from "Red Nose Day" reminded you that Grant had somehow stopped making romantic comedies – a genre he had often used in the early 2000s – there is a reason for this: "I became too old and ugly and big to do more."

He has since experienced a kind of career revival in recent years, earning a Golden Globe nomination for his husband role becoming director of Meryl Streep in the 2016 film "Florence Foster Jenkins".

Last summer, he received positive reviews after returning to television after 20 years of absence for the television series "A Very English Scandal". He played the role of disgraced politician Jeremy Thorpe, who was tried for conspiring to murder his lover.

Although he has moved away from the rom-com genre, Grant does not regret having spent so much.

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"I was paid tons of money, I was very lucky," he added. "And most of these romantic comedies, I can look straight in the eyes – one or two are shocking, but overall, I can look them in the eyes and see people love them."

"And I firmly believe that our job is to entertain," he continued. "It's not a quaint, quasi-religious experience, I think of ourselves as craftsmen with the guy who makes the lights, the guy who edits and the guy who pushes the cart."

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