‘You can’t stop, you’re too good!’ Nicole Kidman admits she had to BEG Hugh Grant to join her new series The Undoing after he quit acting
Nicole Kidman has revealed how difficult it was to convince Hugh Grant to join her hotly-anticipated HBO drama The Undoing.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, the Australian actress, 53, revealed Hugh, 60, was initially hesitant to join the cast when Nicole came knocking, as he’d already decided to quit acting.
‘He always says, “oh, I don’t like working, I don’t want to act”,’ Nicole explained.
‘You can’t stop, you’re too good!’ Nicole Kidman, 53, (right) has admitted she had to BEG Hugh Grant, 60, (left) to join her new series The Undoing after he quit acting
‘He’s one of those. But then when he works, you watch him and you go, “you cannot stop, you’re too good”,’ she added.
The Oscar winner praised Hugh for agreeing to play her on-screen husband in The Undoing, as it represents a departure from the ‘rom-com heartthrob’ role for which he became typecast in the nineties.
‘He’s very bold and willing to play such a diverse range of characters now,’ she enthused.
‘Oh, I don’t like working, I don’t want to act’: Nicole revealed Hugh is known for being reluctant when it comes to taking on acting jobs
Hugh has previously spoken about his reluctance to take on acting roles due to his battle with stage fright.
‘I really don’t know where it suddenly came from,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016.
‘They would just hit me in the middle of a film and they would only last a morning or something, but it was devastating,’ he added.
‘He’s very bold’: The Oscar winner praised Hugh for agreeing to play her on-screen husband in The Undoing, as it represents a departure from the ‘rom-com heartthrob’ role for which he became typecast in the nineties. Hugh pictured in Notting Hill
The Undoing is based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, which reunites Kidman with her Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley.
Nicole and Hugh play the happily married couple Grace and Jonathan Fraser, who are living their best lives when their world is rocked by a violent death.
The death leads to a chain of ‘terrible revelations’ as Grace becomes a suspect in the grisly death in a very public way.
Drama: Nicole and Hugh play the happily married couple Grace and Jonathan Fraser, who are living their best lives when their world is rocked by a violent death. Pictured: Nicole and Hugh behind-the-scenes filming The Undoing
Grace finds herself having to dismantle the life she made with her husband and son and try to build another for themselves.
The six-episode limited series also stars Edgar Ramirez as Detective Joe Mendoza, Noah Jupe as Henry Fraser, Jonathan and Grace’s precocious and artistic 12-year-old son and Lily Rabe as Sylvia Steinetz
After an initial delay caused by COVID-19, The Undoing will premiere in Australia on October 26.
Intense viewing: Grace finds herself having to dismantle the life she made with her husband and son and try to build another for themselves. Pictured: Hugh and Nicole in The Undoing