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Hugh Grant is looking back on Bridget Jones’s Diary 19 years later!

The 60-year-old actor took part in the new BBC Two documentary Being Bridget Jones where he chatted about Renee Zellweger being cast as the British lovesick thirtysomething, admitting that he wasn’t entirely convinced she was the right choice at first.

“There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” Hugh said, according to The Independent. “I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch.”

Hugh then went on to talk about the 51-year-old actress’ audition, saying it was “good” and that he found it “startling” because her accent sounded very familiar to Queen Elizabeth‘s sister Princess Margaret’s voice.

“She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,’” Hugh said, adding that a week later Renee‘s accent “was bang on.”

Earlier this month in another interview, Hugh said Renee is one of the few co-stars he still keeps in touch with.

Hugh Grant has been joined by a ton of amazing actors in Netflix’s upcoming comedy special from the creators of Black Mirror, called Death to 2020.

The 60-year-old Undoing star, who opened up about his own character in the show just recently, will star alongside Lisa Kudrow, Samuel L. Jackson and Leslie Jones.

Joe Keery, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Cristin Milioti, and Samson Kayo will be part of the upcoming special as well, Deadline reports.

While details of their characters have not been released, Hugh shared that he plays “a historian who’s being interviewed about the year. I’m pretty repellent, actually! And you’ll like my wig.”

Here’s the summary for Death to 2020: “2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn’t make it up…but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a little something to add. Death To 2020 is a comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? This landmark documentary-style special weaves together some of the world’s most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage spanning the past 12 months.”

Hugh is also pictured below, shopping for a Christmas Tree with his family in London over the weekend.

Is something 2020-related coming to Black Mirror?

Series creator Charlie Brooker just released a teaser on Thursday (December 3) that has fans all riled up about a potential return of the hit show.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Black Mirror

The creator of the show released a mystery mockumentary about the year of 2020, which might be called “Death to 2020.”

In November, Hugh Grant revealed he was working on something with the creator of the show, calling it a “mockumentary about 2020,” and that he’d be playing a historian being interviewed about the year.

“I’m doing a thing tomorrow, actually. Charlie Brooker [the creator of Black Mirror] has written a mockumentary about 2020. It’s for Netflix, and I am a historian who’s being interviewed about the year. I’m pretty repellent, actually! And you’ll like my wig,” he said.

“2020: even the creators of Black Mirror couldn’t make this year up. But, they do have something to add. Death to 2020,” the teaser hints. It’s also “coming soon” to Netflix.

Hugh Grant still stays in touch with his Bridget Jones co-star Renee Zellweger and says she’s one of the only female co-stars he still keeps in touch with regularly!

“I love Renée. Uh, she’s one of the few actresses I haven’t fallen out with,” Hugh said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. “And, we, we got on very well together and, we still exchange long emails.”

“Hers in particular, at least 70 pages each, interesting stuff, but quite hard to decipher and, she’s a properly good egg and a genius,” Hugh continued. “Did you see her Judy Garland? About as good as acting gets.”

The pair co-starred in Bridget Jones’ Diary back in 200 as well as the sequel, The Edge of Reason, in 2004. Renee starred in the third movie, Bridget Jones’ Baby back in 2016, but Hugh did not personally film additional scenes (though his character is involved!)

Find out which actor recently called Renee the love of his life.

Hugh Grant is breaking down the final moments in the series finale of The Undoing, which aired last night.

The show was a “whodunnit” series that followed the investigation into the murder of Elena Alves, the mother of a child at the school attended by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant‘s characters.

We’re not going to give away the spoilers right away in this post, just in case some readers haven’t caught up on the show yet. Beware of reading any further though!

Click inside for spoilers and to read Hugh Grant’s thoughts on the finale… More Here! »

SPOILER ALERT – Do not continue reading if you don’t want to know what happened in the series finale of The Undoing!

The sixth and final episode of The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, aired on Sunday night (November 29) – and we finally know who killed Elena.

The Undoing focuses on Kidman’s Grace Fraser, a successful therapist, her husband, Jonathan (Grant), and their young son Henry (Noah Jupe) who attends an elite private school in New York City.

Following the death of the mother of a student Henry’s school, Jonathan becomes the prime murder suspect and is arrested for the crime. Throughout the series, twists and turns put doubt on who actually killed Elena Alves.

Who are the possibilities? There’s of course Jonathan, who had an affair with Elena after treating her son’s cancer. She became obsessed with both him and his with Grace. On the night of the murder, he visited Elena at her art studio and they made love. He claims that he left and later returned to find Elena murdered, so he decided to flee as he knew he would look guilty.

Another possibility is Elena’s husband Fernando. Jonathan and his legal team have tried to paint him as a suspect, seemingly that he might have been jealous if he learned of her affair.

At the end of episode five, Henry became a possibility when the murder weapon was discovered by his mom in his violin case.

Click inside to find out who killed Elena…More Here! »

Hugh Grant is opening up about his hiatus from Hollywood.

During a new interview, the 60-year-old The Undoing actor explained why he took a seven-year break from making movies in the late 2000s.

“I developed a bad attitude from about 2005 onwards, shortly after Music and Lyrics,” Hugh shared with the Los Angeles Times. “I just had enough. Then I went back in 2009 and made another film. At that point, it wasn’t me giving up Hollywood. Hollywood gave me up because I made such a massive turkey with that film with Sarah Jessica Parker.”

That movie was Did You Hear About the Morgans, which garnered bad reviews and was a big flop at the box office.

“Whether I wanted to or not after that, the days of being a very well-paid leading man were suddenly gone overnight,” Hugh shared. “It was slightly embarrassing but it left life free for other things.”

Those “other things” include parenting his three young kids – born in 2012, 2015 and 2018 – with wife Anna Eberstein.

“I’m an old man with very young children and a very exhausted wife. So it’s just about survival from hour to hour in terms of childcare,” Hugh said.

Get the scoop on the series finale of The Undoing, airing on Sunday night!