British actor Hugh Grant enjoyed action-packed Christmases during his childhoodhe 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 canshis 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!"
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Submited at Friday, December 25th, 2009 at 10:00 pm on Movie News by madison
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I could not imagine Hugh in a kilt, much less the age that he is now. His grandfather was a real character, its no wonder Hugh had fun. His stories about his family are soooo great. I want more stories.