25 years after Hugh Grant starred alongside Julia Roberts in the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill, the actor is finally letting fans know how he really feels about his character in the film.

"Whenever I'm flicking the channel at home after a few drinks, this comes out, I just think, "Why doesn't my character have any balls?"Grant said in a recent Nov. 14 Video interviews with Vanity Fair, referring to his character William "Will" Tucker.

"There's a scene in this movie where [Julia Roberts' character] is in my house and Pup comes to the front door and rings the bell. "I never had a girlfriend, or indeed, now my wife, who does not say, "Why the hell did you stop her"what with you" and I really do not have the answer to it.

The actor kept saying that he played the scene as "written," but that doesn't stop him from thinking that his character is "despicable, really."

In the 1999 film, directed by Roger Michel, Grant plays a London bookstore owner who meets and falls in love with Roberts' character, Anna Scott, a famous American movie star.

After a chance encounter in a bookstore via spilled orange juice, the pair enter into an unlikely relationship trying to adjust to their radically different lifestyles to make their budding romance work.

Grant is hardly impressed with his character after all these years, but the actor has been praised for his former co-star and her on-screen performance (both of which were nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 after the film's release).

"Perhaps all the time with Julia, like any brilliant actress, you're just thinking, "Oh, Christ, they're really good." I'm not going to be as good as her," he explained. "And she's good at emoting and has such qualities that her skin looks like a wafer thin. You can see her soul.

The Hollywood Reporter Drama Actor Roundtable in an interview in 2020, Ming that Grant, as a result of starring in Rom-Com, developed a kind of "inferiority complex"

"Well, yes, but I got too old, ugly and fat to do them anymore, so now I'm not going to do it anymore." I've done other things, and I have a slightly less self-loathing," the actor said at the time.

"I was being paid a lot of money," he continued. "I was very lucky. And most of those romantic comedies, I can see faces squarely — 1 or 2 are shocker, but overall I can see faces, and people like them.

"I believe our job is to entertain. It is not to practice strange, quasi-religious experiences," he added. "We see us as craftsmen, along with the people who do the lights, the people who edit and the people who push Dolly."