It's good to be the BAD GUY!

THE KING OF ENGLISH ROM-COMS SWITCHES THINGS UP AS A NOTSO-NICE CHARACTER

- Emma Levett

When two Mormon missionaries knock on his front door and Hugh Grant answers, it's not the man that audiences have come to know and expect.

In his new movie, Heretic billed as an A24 horror and psychological thriller, gone is Grant's foppish English gentleman act.

His floppy fringe has been replaced with something far more sinister - and he's relished every minute.

"Good guys are difficult," the actor told People magazine. "They're difficult to keep from being boring... I think almost any actor prefers being the damaged, bad guy.

It’s much more interesting.” Grant prepared for the part of the movie’s main character, the reclusive Mr Reed, by reading books on serial killers and putting together a mood board with figures ranging from Richard Dawkins to Jeffrey Dahmer.

Mr Reed is a “brilliantly complicated, f--ked-up character” Grant told Vanity Fair. “Unless there’s a sense of the quivering jelly – the damaged bit inside – it’s going to be boring and just be a mustache-twirling baddie. You’ve got to get to the jelly.”