Fatherhood has finally unlocked the emotional side of actor Grant

Hugh Grant has t ol d how f atherhood has made him more emotional in his “old age”.

The Notting Hill, Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary actor, 60, was speaking about his latest project, Sky Atlantic's new six- part psychological thriller The Undoing.

He told The Graham Norton Show: "Having spent a career unable to muster a single emotion, I find in my old age I can't stop them. It's something to do with children or love, or my wife, or something, but I can't keep it at bay.

"I did this job ( The Undoing) partly to get away from my young children as they are exhausting at my age. I thought it would be great to have a break but every time I arrived in New York I missed them so badly I was a mess, so every scene was suddenly a cue for tears for me.

"I'd even go into a cafe and ask for a cup of coffee and the tears would come!."

The father- of- five stars as Nicole Kidman's husband in The Undoing alongside a cast which includes Donald

Sutherland, Edgar Ramirez, Lil y Rabe and Matilda De Angelis.

The script of the whodunnit thriller is penned by David E Kelley, the talent behind HBO series Big Little Lies, and is based on the novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The actor also spoke about having Covid- 19, which he says he had in the early days of the pandemic.

He told Norton: It felt like mild f l u and t hen a r at her alarming complete l oss of smell, which culminated in me sticking my head in dustbins, sniffing.”