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Richard Curtis, The Filmmaker Of Love Actually, Is Troubled By The Lack Of Variety

Richard Curtis

Director of the 2003 holiday romantic comedy Love Actually Richard Curtis has said that he feels “a bit dumb” about some aspects of the film, particularly its lack of diversity.

Curtis acknowledged that parts of the film “are sure to feel dated” now. The British director went on to say that it was “very moving” to see how much people continue to appreciate his movie.

Curtis made the comments on the one-hour ABC special The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later.

Along with actors Hugh Grant, Dame Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Laura Linney, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, he made an appearance on the show.

Curtis said: “There are things that you would change, but thank God society is improving.” When asked by anchor Diane Sawyer if there were any aspects of the movie that “made you cringe,” Curtis said:

“My film is sure to feel out of date at some parts,” he remarked. “The lack of diversity makes me uneasy and a little foolish.

“I wish my film was better because there is such wonderful love happening every minute in so many ways [in life generally] all around the planet.

“I wish I had done a documentary simply to kind of see it,” the speaker said.

He continued by saying that well-made movies may “serve as a reminder of how gorgeous things can be and how there are all kinds of things which we could pass by, but which are in fact the best times in our lives.”

The illustrious Love Actually combines a number of distinct but connected love stories into one merry feast that many viewers have continued to savor even today. However, some viewers believe Love Actually to be problematic and misogynistic in several places.

The box office sensation was honored with two Golden Globes and earned generally negative reviews from critics.

The Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert described it as “a belly-flop into the sea of romantic comedy” at the time, while Variety’s Todd McCarthy called it “a roundly amusing romantic comedy” and a “doggedly happy confection.”

According to Nicholas Barber of BBC Culture, “Lust Actually” could have been a better title because “there’s actually no love in Love Actually.”

“Slightly psychotic”

Some of the cast members of the aforementioned ABC program lauded Curtis, with Dame Emma calling the co-founder of Comic Relief a man with a “golden heart.”

He is genuinely a decent person, which is something to be valued in our line of work.

Grant continued, calling the script for Love Actually “a little insane” or, to put it another way, “Richard on steroids.”

Grant remarked, “But the thing about him is, what you have to remember is that when he writes about love, he means it. “And that is pretty uncommon.

I once watched a portion of Love Actually while intoxicated with my wife, and she was the one to point out that the movie was all about misery and pain.

Nighy, whose performance in the movie earned him a Bafta for best actor in a supporting role, called it “great to be a part of.”

It’s incredible how it’s gotten into the vernacular, he remarked.

“People approach me and say that I watch it whenever I’m alone, or that it helped me get through my divorce or chemotherapy. People actually do it.

In another segment of the show, Nighy’s Love Actually co-star Grant, who played a fictitious British prime minister, called his iconic Downing Street dance “the most agonizing scene ever committed to cinema.”

Before being apprehended by his personal assistant, he can be seen dancing about the offices of Number 10 Girls Aloud’s cover of The Pointer Sisters’ 1983 song Jump.

Many others have reproduced the dance online throughout the years, including Joseph Parker, a former WBO heavyweight champion.

Grant recalls, “I suppose I saw it in the script and thought, ‘I’ll detest doing it.'” He made a joke about how no Englishman could dance in the morning hours while they were sober.

And to this day, many people still believe it to be the most agonizing scene ever captured on film, and I concur with them.

“However, some people enjoy it.”

The actor, who was previously hired in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, was reportedly “grumpy” about performing the routine but nonetheless went through with it out of “contractual responsibility,” according to director Curtis.

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