“Cary Grant didn’t exist,” said Jason Isaacs, who plays the iconic actor in four-part biopic #Archie. “Cary Grant was someone that a man invented because he was so tortured.” https://t.co/Xy3feT9CLR
— Variety (@Variety) November 23, 2023
Some background info on Cary Grant: While he was a child, Grant’s mother was secretly committed to a mental health hospital by his father and publicly declared dead. The actor only found out she was still alive when he was 31 years old.
– “Cary Grant didn’t exist,” Isaacs said. “Cary Grant was someone that a man invented because he was so tortured. And I thought, ‘I can play a really messed up man who can fake many things in many situations to many people.’ I can’t play Cary Grant, but I can have a crack at playing Archie Leach.”
– “He was a desperately troubled and unhappy, haunted human being who had a terrible, abusive childhood,” Isaacs said of his character. “Which was one of the things that the screen can never got across: He was hungry, he was starving. And he was starved of love.”
SRC Variety
