Hugh 'lost interest'
2004-11-12 13:21
London - British actor Hugh Grant says he has lost interest in acting and is heading into retirement.
Grant, who plays heart-throb Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was quoted on Thursday by the Evening Standard's Metro magazine as saying film acting is a "miserable experience".
"It's so long and boring and so difficult to get right," Grant said.
"I am sort of semi-retired," he said.
"I keep thinking I'm going to write a brilliant script ... I've done bugger-all."
Grant, who shot to fame playing the charming English man in films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Nine Months, gained international notoriety when he was caught in a car with prostitute Divine Brown in 1995.
The 44-year-old, who took new girlfriend Jemima Khan - the former wife of ex-Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan - to this week's Bridget Jones premiere, told the magazine he didn't feel pressure to settle down.
- AP