Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for Paddington in Peru, which opens in theaters in the UK on Friday and in the US on January 17th.
As a move that will please many people — many — Paddington 2 fans are back for one more marmalade sandwich with one of the film’s most beloved characters in the third installment of the series.
“Paddington in Peru” will be released in the UK on November 8th (it won’t be released in the US until January 17th). Bear returns to his homeland with his adopted family, the Brown family, for an adventure involving Olivia Colman’s sinister guitar. – plays the nun, Antonio Bandera’s mysterious captain, and the missing Aunt Lucy. But at the end of the film, as the end credits roll, Hugh Grant returns to London in triumph as his beloved antagonist, narcissistic struggling actor Phoenix Buchanan, and finally emerges from prison in a flashy, high-kicking song-and-dance performance. He showed off his number. .
This is a brief scene from Paddington in Peru, where Buchanan is still imprisoned and discussing with a group of visiting bears (Paddington’s relatives) the possibility of putting on a performance of Goldilocks inside the prison. It shows the place. variety I hear that Grant was so keen to participate that he actually wrote most of the lines of the sketch himself.
Of course, Grant was nominated for a BAFTA for Paddington 2, a performance not only considered one of his best, but also starting something of a career resurgence for the former romantic comedy favorite. I did. Since then, there have been films such as A Very English Scandal, The Undoing, The Gentleman, Wonka, and his most recent foray into critically acclaimed horror films, The Heretic. And he played a wide range of famous roles. ”Perhaps he thought he owed the bear?
Whatever Grant’s motivations for donning Buchanan’s striped prison uniform once again, if the premiere screening of Paddington in Peru is a success, his return should draw wild laughter and applause (at least for the second film). among the age groups that remember). . Let’s see if Coleman can be persuaded to come back for a fourth time.
