Hugh Grant has said that becoming a father at the age of 52 was “too late” in life. The 64-year-old actor, who won rave reviews for his role in new horror film Heretic , spoke about the exhaustion of welcoming his five children at a later age. Appearing on the SmartLess podcast, Grant was asked how many children he has, to which he jokingly replied: “We think it’s five.
“I had them much too old in life. You know, I started when I was 52.” Grant has three children – Blue (6), Lulu (8) and son John Mungo (12) with his 41-year-old wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein.
The couple married in 2018. He also has a daughter Tabitha Xiao Xi (13) and son Felix Chang Hong (11), with ex-partner Tinglan Hong (45). The actor, who welcomed his first child in 2011, joked that he needed a “long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey” due to becoming a father to five later in life.
“I often look at the abbey Maria lives in in the The Sound of Music and wish I lived there,” he said. However, he added that becoming a father gave him “heart” and “more layers”. I had children and suddenly I had heart and I had more layers or something “I think I was a dried-up, middle-aged, golf-addicted Englishman,” he said.
“Then I had children and suddenly I had heart and I had more layers or something.” Grant recently revealed he decided to put an Austin Powers reference in his daughter Lulu’s name. “We thought it might be nice for her when she was older if she could say in bars tha.
