‘These jokes aren’t funny anymore’: Love Actually director’s regret

Released in theaters nearly 20 years ago, Love Actually is universally recognized as a romantic comedy classic. A clean film, whose director and screenwriter Richard Curtis now regrets some jokes related to the weight of the character played by Martin McCutcheon (besides, what happened to this actor after the film?).

In Love Actually, Natalie, the British Prime Minister’s secretary, played by Hugh Grant (whom one scene in the film found “terrible”) is often mocked for her weight. until dad calls “fat” And one of his colleagues points out that he has “big thighs”Hugh Grant’s character tells him “Oh my god, you’re weighing one of these” As she jumps into his arms.

“I remember how shocked I was five years ago when my daughter Scarlett said to me: ‘You will never use the word ‘fat’ again”.– said Richard Curtis at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Today site writes about it. “He was right. Those jokes aren’t funny anymore. I wasn’t mean at the time, but I guess I wasn’t good looking enough and I wasn’t as smart as I was. I should have been.”

Richard Curtis also offered a mea culpa when asked about the lack of diversity in his films. “I come from a very diverse school and university friend group”says the British. “In Love at first sight in Notting Hill, I think the reason I didn’t touch on diversity is because I didn’t think I knew how to write about it. I think I was stupid, I was wrong. Me and my producers, my casting director and I just didn’t think about it. We weren’t open enough.”

Richard Curtis is a big name in romantic comedy. British who wrote and directed I really love itAlso wrote scripts Love at first sight in Notting HillFour Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones’s Diary, all huge hits in cinemas.

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