'Did You Hear About the Morgans?' actor revealed that he learned a lot about how to shoot since his grandfather believed it is important to teach 7-year-old Grant how to kill.
- December 26, 2009
AceShowbiz - British actor Hugh Grant enjoyed action-packed Christmases during his childhood - he spent the holidays learning how to shoot on his grandparents' farm in Scotland. The "Notting Hill" star reveals he was around six or seven years old when his granddad first handed him a gun and taught him how to fire the weapon.
But Grant and his siblings wouldn't just shoot at tin cans - his grandfather would create life-sized human cutouts for the kids to aim at, complete with fake blood. He says, "My grandfather was a military man and he thought it was important to teach kids how to kill."
"He would spend all summer making cardboard cutouts of human beings that he would put up around the farm and he'd put us in kilts, because we had to dress like him and he always wore a kilt. He'd then take us into the farm and shoot these 'people'."
"He also made fake blood and put it in pill canisters and stuck it to their faces so if you hit them right in the middle of the face, blood exploded. Maybe that's not the classic way people bring up children now, but it's useful! I loved it!"
