One of the more memorable moments from "Notting Hill" is the dinner party scene where Will introduces Anna to his closest friends. Unsurprisingly, they're floored by the fact that he's somehow managed to snag a Hollywood A-lister after a lifetime of romantic failures. Hugh Bonneville's Bernie is the lone exception. A Square Mile man through and through, Bernie doesn't quite understand the gravity of the situation until he asks Anna how much she was paid for her last picture and she responds, "$15 million."
Although he was already a veteran of British TV by the time he landed "Notting Hill," the film was actually one of Bonneville's first big-screen ventures. Since then, though, he has appeared in a veritable bonanza of movies, including "The Monuments Men," both "Paddington" films, and "Breathe." However, he is perhaps best known for his work as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in "Downton Abbey," which just made its big-screen return in 2022 with "A New Era."
Richard McCabe, meanwhile, played Tony — an architect turned restaurateur and another of Will's friends — who, at the beginning of the film, is coming to grips with the closure of his eatery. By the end of the film, though, he's seen putting the finishing touches on Anna and Will's incredible wedding cake. McCabe most recently appeared as Exalted Pikeman Higgins in the Mike Myers Netflix series, "The Pentaverate," which was inspired by conspiracy theories mentioned in his 1993 movie, "So I Married an Axe Murder."
