In the 1999 rom-com, the actor played bumbling bookstore owner William Thacker, who falls in love with a movie star played by Julia Roberts – but Grant has labelled him “despicable” for the way he treated the actress throughout the movie.
Speaking as part of Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection, Grant explained: “Whenever I’m flicking the channels at home after a few drinks and this comes up, I just think, ‘Why doesn’t my character have any balls?’
“There’s a scene in this film where she’s in my house and the paps come to the front door and ring the bell and I think I just let her go past me and open the door. That’s awful.”
Grant went on to insist all his real-life romantic partners had the same opinion of the character, saying: “I’ve never had a girlfriend, or indeed now wife, who hasn’t said, ‘Why the hell didn’t you stop her? What’s wrong with you?’
“And I don’t really have an answer to that – it’s how it was written. And I think he’s despicable, really.”
