It stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, with Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInerney, Gina McKee and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles.

He said he thinks his character is “disgusting” “Whenever I’m at home watching the channel after a few drinks and this thing comes on, I just think, ‘Why doesn’t my character have any balls? Is it?'” he said. “There’s a scene in the movie where he’s in my house and papa (paparazzi) comes to the front door and rings the bell and I think I let him walk past me and open the door. It’s horrible,” he added.

In the film directed by Roger Michell, Anna Scott (Roberts) falls in love with William, a bookshop owner in Notting Hill. However, the paparazzi’s attraction to her complicates their relationship.

“I’ve never had a girlfriend, or actually a wife now, who hasn’t said, ‘Why didn’t you stop him? What’s wrong with you?'” Grant said. “And I don’t really have an answer to that – that’s just the way it was written. And I think that’s really disgusting,” he said.

In 2016, Grant shared in an interview that he does not “hate” all of his films, although he finds watching himself onscreen excruciating. He said at the time, “I read that I hate all my movies. That’s not true, the movies are often very good. I just hate mine.” “I always think, ‘Oh, you messed up.’ According to The Hollywood Reporter, “You never feel good about your stuff. It’s like the old days of answering machine messages, you always feel nauseous when you hear your voice.” And seeing yourself on film is 50 times that.