Article: Life without Liz; In his first interview for About A Boy, Hugh Grant talks about that split - and his new-found freedom.

Byline: HAROLD VON KURSK

HUGH Grant has long had doubts about the worthiness of the acting profession and his place in the movie mainstream. The huge commercial success of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill merely confirmed him as the first choice to play likeable, stuttering, foppish Englishmen. The part of the caddish Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary was a deliberate departure, an act of conscious career-broadening that continues with Grant's new role in About A Boy, the film version of Nick Hornby's acclaimed bestseller. Grant plays Will Freeman, an immature bachelor living off his grandfather's royalties who suddenly finds his rather ...

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