If you are expecting a biography that is a chronological story of the life of Cary Grant filled with new revelations about his life, you will be disappointed. Most of the series is done in flashbacks about his earlier life. After watching the first 2 episodes, I believe it is very factual but I did not find it very interesting. Jason Isaacs, who plays Grant looks a bit like him with makeup, however he is not very convincing.
The movie does not answer the question as whether he was gay or not. Dr. Mortimer Hartman, who treated Grant with LSD and other drugs said he did not believe Cary was homosexual because he was definably attracted to women but may have had some sexual encounters with men.
So far the series has not really touched on the conversion from Archibald Leach to Cary Grant. We do know that Leach patterned Cary Grant after Cary Lockhart, a roll he played on stage. Grant developed a brilliantly constructed persona, better than anything a studio marketing team could have developed. He was not just Cary Grant in the movies, he was Cary Grant in real life.
With his first movie contract, he was required to change his name. He was introduced to Hollywood as Cary Grant and from that point on Archibald Leach cease to exist. Grant was once asked by a reporter, "How do you prepared for a role. Grant replied, I learn my lines and walk through the scenes. The reporter said, "No, I mean how do you get into the character?" Grant reply, "I'm always in character. I'm Cary Grant."
From what I have seen so for I would get it 3 stars.
The movie does not answer the question as whether he was gay or not. Dr. Mortimer Hartman, who treated Grant with LSD and other drugs said he did not believe Cary was homosexual because he was definably attracted to women but may have had some sexual encounters with men.
So far the series has not really touched on the conversion from Archibald Leach to Cary Grant. We do know that Leach patterned Cary Grant after Cary Lockhart, a roll he played on stage. Grant developed a brilliantly constructed persona, better than anything a studio marketing team could have developed. He was not just Cary Grant in the movies, he was Cary Grant in real life.
With his first movie contract, he was required to change his name. He was introduced to Hollywood as Cary Grant and from that point on Archibald Leach cease to exist. Grant was once asked by a reporter, "How do you prepared for a role. Grant replied, I learn my lines and walk through the scenes. The reporter said, "No, I mean how do you get into the character?" Grant reply, "I'm always in character. I'm Cary Grant."
From what I have seen so for I would get it 3 stars.