有近十年时间，休格兰特曾红透影坛。 For about a decade, Hugh Grant was everywhere.
这位迷人的英国演员成为浪漫喜剧之王，电影魅力难以阻挡。 The charming Brit was the crown prince of romcoms and practically inescapable at the movies.
然而接下来，他却几乎在影坛销声匿迹，到底发生了什么？ Then, well, he wasn't around much anymore. What happened?
#性丑闻事件#
Back before a sex tape was representation of fame and success, sex scandals were, well, scandalous.
And Hugh Grant was embroiled in a particularly infamous one.
In 1995, the affable actor was busted for hooking up with a prostitute named Divine Brown in his car.
He looked particularly sheepish in his mugshot.
Oh, and did we mention he was dating actress Elizabeth Hurley at the time?
Grant released a statement telling the press,
Grant got off easy in more ways than one.
He escaped the potential six months of jail time and instead paid a $1,000 fine and participated in a AIDS education program.
He also faced some comeuppance from Jay Leno on The Tonight Show:
"What the hell were you thinking?"
(audience laughing)
Grant was forthcoming about this obvious mistake, however:
"I think you know in life, uh, pretty much, what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and um,
I did a bad thing. And there you have it."
He's over romcoms.
The romantic comedy market has begun to dry up in recent years, and Grant's most recent effort in the genre didn't fare so well.
Did You Hear About The Morgans? was a critical and box office bomb, netting only half of its %58 million budget in ticket sales.
It doesn't sound like it bugs Grant too much, though, because he's tired of the genre.
Grant admitted to the Telegraph that he's not in a lot of movies anymore because he just doesn't feel like doing them.
His other films aren't moneymakers, either.
Cloud Atlas had very lofty expectations;
A steller cast featuring Grant, Tom Hanks, Helle Berry, and Susan Sarandon,
a time-warping plot, lots of double-casting, and plenty of attempts at depth and touching moments.
It also had a $102 million budge.
Unfortunately, the film only netted about $27 million in ticket sales.