That thief is washed-up actor Phoenix Buchanan, played marvelously by Hugh Grant, who just nabbed a BAFTA nomination for his “Paddington” performance. And so they wrote, ‘Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant’ every time,” Hugh Bonneville, who plays Mr. Brown in the franchise, joked to HuffPost on Build Series Tuesday. “They said, ‘We’re thinking of offering it to Hugh Grant, what do you think?’ And I said, ‘Try him.’ And, um, he could take the joke,” he added.

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2018 19:30 UTC