Hugh Grant says he wasn't sure if he could pull off portraying six different villains in his upcoming film, "Cloud Atlas." "I have six cameo parts in this strange, ambitious film," Grant told Empire magazine. "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! But it was a laugh. I thought before I read it that I'd turn it down, which I normally do, but I was interested in meeting the Wachowskis because I have always admired them enormously. And they are so charming and fascinating."
The 51-year-old actor has more often appeared in Romantic Comedies than Science Fiction films, but says he realized the film was going to be more of a challenge than what he was used to. "In one of the parts I am a cannibal, about 2000 years in the future, and I thought, 'I can do that. It's easy,'" Grant said. "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!'"
The film, which is based on a novel by David Mitchell, follows six different interconnected stories set in different times and place, including that of a journalist who investigates alleged corruption at a nuclear power plant in 1975 and a tribesman living a primitive life in a post-apocalyptic future. The movie, which is slated for release on October 19, 2012, also stars Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon.
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