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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 20 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.
A visceral exploration of desire and disconnection, *Flesh* follows a middle-aged man navigating the murky landscape of casual encounters and digital intimacy. Trapped between loneliness and compulsion, he pursues fleeting physical connections through dating apps and chance meetings, each encounter revealing the hollow core beneath surface attraction. As he moves through encounters with various women—each with their own vulnerabilities and secrets—he confronts uncomfortable truths about himself: his inability to genuinely connect, his self-deception, and the emotional toll of treating intimacy as transaction. The narrative strips away pretense to expose the raw, often uncomfortable reality of modern desire. Szalay crafts a darkly honest portrait of a man searching for meaning in meaningless encounters, where physical closeness only deepens his isolation. A haunting meditation on human connection in an age of unprecedented access and profound emptiness.
