Grant gets up for £183

As a Hollywood star Hugh Grant commands at least £5 million a film — but for his latest part he is taking a £4,999,817 pay cut.

The Four Weddings And A Funeral star is to appear in a Radio 4 play for £183 — the minimum day rate.

Grant, 43, agreed to a cameo role in Missing Reel as a favour to its
author Toby Jones. The play tells of an actor edited out of the film he works on, as happened to Jones when he took a part in Grant’s 1999 movie
Notting Hill.

Jones, 35 — who has had stage success with
The Play What I Wrote — said: “Hugh enjoyed the script — he didn’t
do it for the money.”

Grant, who early in his career was the voice
of Red Stripe lager and Brylcreem adverts, need not worry about
his cashflow. He could make £10 million for the sequel to Bridget
Jones’s Diary.

Missing Reel can be heard at 2.15pm on Wednesday 29 October.