Hugh Grant would do a ‘Notting Hill’ sequel that includes 'floods of tears'

When the romantic comedy Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, was released in 1999, it instantly became a rom-com classic. What’s not to love about a boy-falls-for-famous girl meet-cute that results in a small travel bookshop owner having a whirlwind romance with Hollywood’s biggest movie star and ending up happily ever after? Isn’t that everyone’s romantic dream? Not Hugh Grant’s apparently.On Sunday, the 60-year-old actor took part in a Q&A on Twitter, lovingly dubbed a “Hugh and A” (har har har), for HBO, where his new thriller miniseries The Undoing airs. One of the questions posed to him was, “Would you like to star in a romantic comedy again?”

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Well, according to him, he would most definitely do a Notting Hill sequel, but only if it took a serious left turn out of rom-com territory.“I would like to do a sequel to one of my own romantic comedies that shows what happened after those films ended," he said. "Really, to prove the terrible lie that they all were; that it was a happy ending."[video_embed id='2058402']RELATED: Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman in 'The Undoing'[/video_embed]"I'd like to do me and Julia and the hideous divorce that's ensued with really expensive lawyers, children involved in [a] tug of love, floods of tears. Psychologically scarred forever," he chuckled. "I'd love to do that film."You might famously remember that Hugh shot to fame in the late '80s and early '90s with a string of memorable turns in our most beloved rom coms, like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually, Nine Months, Mickey Blue Eyes, and Two Weeks Notice.Now, Hugh is enjoying taking on meatier roles like his recent turn in Guy Ritchie’s gritty caper The Gentlemen, and The Undoing.  He even told The Hollywood Reporter last year that, for a while in his life, he might have felt sidelined or typecast in these rom coms, but now he no longer worries about that. “I've gotten too old and ugly and fat to do them anymore, so now I've done other things, and I've got marginally less self-hatred," he joked.He went on to say that his success as an actor is largely due to those films, so he holds them in high regard. “I was being paid tons of money. I was very lucky. And most of those romantic comedies I can look squarely in the face — one or two are shockers, but on the whole I can look them in the face, and people like them.""I am a big believer that our job is to entertain,” he continued. “It's not to practice some weird, quasi-religious experience. I see us as craftsmen along with the guy who does the lights and the guy who edits and the guy who pushes the dolly."Okay, so now that we’ve got Hugh Grant on board for Notting Hill 2: Anna Scott’s Revenge (it’s a good possible title, Hollywood! Consider it!), we just need to see where Julia Roberts is at.[video_embed id='1876039']Before you go: Matthew McConaughey & 'The Gentlemen' cast toast to Guy Ritchie’s latest wild ride[/video_embed]