Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Got a great one dialed up for you this week with one of the best and most prolific actors of, let's call it, the last 30 years or so, he is the one and only, Hugh Grant.

He broke out, who could forget, in 1994, with four weddings and a funeral earning a Golden

Globe Award and a BAFTA for Best Actor and kind of became the go-to romantic comedy guy in

Hollywood.

Did movies like Notting Hill, Love Actually,

Bridget Jones's diary, nine months. The list goes on and on and on. But now he's doing something

completely counter to all of that. And the truth is, he hasn't really made a romantic comedy

in the last 15 years or so. He's been doing much heavier,

more serious and acclaimed work. A very English scandal. Florence Foster Jenkins, the undoing,

all of those performances earning him Golden Globe Awards. And his latest, it is chilling. The movie's

called Heretic. I'll let him explain it. But basically, he is a creepy, somehow charming, apparently from the outside, kindly man who opens a door when two Mormon missionaries, two young women knock on his door, to spread the gospel.

He invites them inside, and we are set off on a wild psychological thriller

that really becomes a horror movie. It's a meditation and an examination of religion and faith

and all these things. It's very deep. He is so, so good in it, getting tons of acclaim for this

performance, people talking about awards and

everything. And I think probably why it works is he is initially his charming Hugh Grant self

that you know and love from those romantic comedies before turning to this incredibly dark character.

So I'll let him explain. We talk about his career, his ride over the last 30 years through Hollywood, how things have changed for him, how he sees his life and career now, how he looks at celebrity, and so much more.

So sit back, relax right now and enjoy Hugh Grant on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Hugh, it's great to meet you. Thanks for doing this.

It's a pleasure to be here.

I told you when you walked in, I've just seen the film Heretic. So it took me a minute to get to Hugh Grant and not see Mr. Reed as you sat down here.

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