Hugh Grant spent half his career in rom-coms. Now he plays monsters, and he’s never been happier

NEW YORK (AP) — After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.

“Sorry about that,” he apologizes. “Tech hell.” Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the “devil’s tinderbox.”

“I think they’re killing us. I hate them,” he says. “I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous.”

Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant’s new film, “Heretic.” In it...