Hugh Grant and his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein hit the red carpet at the Wonka world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Tuesday evening.
The iconic actor, 63, who plays an Oompa-Loompa in the film, looked dapper as he wore a black suit, which he wore with a matching tie.
To complete his look, he donned a white shirt and posed next to his television producer wife Anna.
Anna cut a glamorous figure in a white textured mini dress and stood arm in arm with her famous husband on the red carpet.
Showing off her legs, she added a pair of tan heels to elongate her long legs.
Hugh Grant and his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein hit the red carpet at the Wonka world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Tuesday evening
The iconic actor, 63, who plays an Oompa-Loompa in the film, looked dapper as he wore a black suit, which he wore with a matching tie
The couple, who have three children together, married in 2018 at the Chelsea registry office near their £10 million home in west London.
Hugh plays an Oompa Loompa in the film, but his role sparked controversy.
The decision to cast Grant was criticized by an actor with dwarfism, who argued that the role should have been offered to an actor with the condition due to a lack of suitable roles for dwarfs.
The Oompa-Loompas were played by actors with dwarfism in two previous films based on Roald Dahl’s iconic children’s book.
George Coppen – a 3ft 10in actor whose father played an Ewok in Star Wars – told the BBC: “Lots of actors.” [with dwarfism] “We feel like we’re being pushed out of the industry we love,” he said.
“Many people, myself included, argue that dwarves should be offered everyday roles in dramas and soaps, but we are not offered these roles.”
“One door closes, but they forget to open the next one.”
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas are the small workers in the factory that Wonka imported from Loompaland.
The legendary actor made sure all attention was on him on the red carpet at the Royal Festival Hall
Anna cut a glamorous figure in a white textured mini dress and stood arm in arm with her famous husband on the red carpet
The new Wonka film tells the story of the chocolatier before he opens his chocolate factory.
The official UK release is scheduled for December 8th, just in time for Christmas.
The film is based on Roald Dahl’s classic 1964 novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and was directed by Paul King, who previously directed “Paddington” and its sequel.
The premise is as follows: “The wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, wizard and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today,” says an official IMDB synopsis.
Hugh also has two children with Tinglan Hong.
Back in January 2018, the blue-eyed heartthrob spoke to People TV’s Jess Cagle about becoming a father.
He said: “It was the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.” It’s just nice to have all this love around you.
“Suddenly you love someone more than yourself.” That’s never happened in my case, and they love you and it’s all adorable.”
And in a conversation with Ellen DeGeneres in 2012, he also said, “All these years, everyone was right when they said, ‘Hugh, why don’t you have kids?’ “It changes your life!”
In the trailer for the new film, which focuses on the life of Willy Wonka, Grant appears as Oompa Loompa, trapped in a jar
Casting Hugh Grant and an Oompa Loompa in the new Wonka movie takes the work out of a dwarf, said a 3-foot-10-inch actor whose father played an Ewok
George Coppen, 26, (left) argued that the role should have been offered to an actor with the condition because there was a lack of suitable roles for dwarves
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Earlier this year, Hugh hit back online by claiming he only married Anna “for passport reasons” and insisted it was because he loved her.
The star came across the claim during a Google search last month and clarified the matter on Twitter as he disagreed with it.
Hugh responded, insisting that the reason he and his wife tied the knot was “love.”
He shared a screenshot of search results for his wife Anna’s full name, which prompted an online article published on the Nicki Swift website in December 2020 that claimed he married Anna for “passport reasons.”
The Bridget Jones’s Diary actor married for the first time three years ago. In the article, he is quoted in an interview with USA Today in which he said that he and Anna thought marriage was a “pretty absurd social construct” before discussing their different names on their passports.
Hugh, who has three children with TV producer Anna, said when discussing marriage: “I didn’t like going through immigration to countries where they would say, ‘Everyone with a grant pass is here and.’ everyone else there.”
‘[Anna] went off with the nannies. This all seemed wrong.’
However, Hugh – who previously dated Elizabeth Hurley – now insists he actually married not for practical reasons but for love.
After coming across the search screenshot, Hugh shared it on Twitter and replied: “No I didn’t, @internet. ‘I married her because I love her.’
Wonka is released on December 8th in the UK and December 15th in the US.