“You felt like big corporation breathing down neck of these filmmakers”: Hugh Grant on why he declined few of high-budget films

Grant added, “I asked them bluntly. I quizzed the directors. You can tell quite early on since you might have a few ideas about the part before you’ve signed up — you suggest things, and you can tell if there’s a lot of pushback from noncreative executives.” “Why didn’t anyone do market research before?” he said.