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"Hugh Grant reportedly turned down the starring role in Roman Polanski&amp;#039;s new film The Ghost Writer.  The Did You Hear About The Morgans? star wanted to concentrate on filming comedies, according to the movie&amp;#039;s writer Robert Harris. According to Contactmusic, Harris has revealed that Grant turned down the role, played by Ewan McGregor in the film, after reading the script. He also admitted that Grant instead wanted to carry on making &amp;quot;rom-coms&amp;quot; because they are more &amp;quot;profitable&amp;quot;.  Harris said: &amp;quot;I pushed for Grant because my model was Hitchcock and more specifically North By Northwest, which has an &amp;#039;everyman&amp;#039; hero that I thought he could play, and it was important to me, too, the film had jokes and was funny.  &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s in the rom-com zone and it&amp;#039;s very profitable for him, but this was an opportunity to extend his range a bit.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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