Hugh Grant has revealed that he will play six villainous characters in highly anticipated new film 'Cloud Atlas'.
The Love Actually actor joins a star-studded cast for the adaption of David Mitchell's best-selling novel. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent and Susan Sarandon also star in the film which is set to be released later this year.
It sounds like Hugh has landed the most interesting part though! Speaking to Empire magazine the actor revealed that he plays a number of alter ego's in the complicated tale:
"I have six cameo parts in this strange, ambitious film, I do a lot of killing and raping. I wear an awful lot of prosthetic make-up, too. You probably won't know that I am in the film!"
Despite his less than cheery role, the king of rom-coms claims shooting the film "was a laugh." He admits though that he found it hard to relate to one particular part that's about as far removed from his previous roles as can be:
"I slightly called my own bluff. In one of the parts I am a cannibal, about 2,000 years in the future, and I thought, 'I can do that. It's easy'. And then I am suddenly standing in a cannibal skirt on a mountaintop in Germany and they are saying, 'You know, hungry! We must have that flesh-eating, like a leopard who is so hungry...' and I am thinking, 'I can't do that! Just give me a witty line!"
Hugh Grant as a cannibal? Sounds like a must-see!
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