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The man behind Blackadder and some Britain\u2019s best-loved rom-coms like Notting Hill and Four Weddings and Funeral gave us Love Actually 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
In the two decades since, the Christmas film (despite remaining incredibly popular), has been reassessed for its \u201cproblematic\u201d content, including fat jokes towards women.<\/p>\n
Now writer-director Richard Curtis has expressed his regrets and vowed never to make such remarks again in his future movies, after being criticised by his 28-year-old daughter Scarlett.<\/p>\n
Speaking on stage with her at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the filmmaker told the audience: \u201cI remember how shocked I was five years ago when Scarlett said to me, \u2018You can never use the word fat again\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Curtis, who has announced Christmas Actually for this December, continued: \u201cAnd, wow, you were right. In my generation, calling someone \u2018chubby\u2019 … in Love, Actually, there are endless jokes about that. I think I was behind the curve and those jokes aren\u2019t any longer funny.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel I was malicious at the time but I feel I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scarlett, a writer and editor who campaigns about mental health issues after suffering from PTSD, told her father: \u201cAs your daughter, I can confirm that you\u2019re a wonderful man, and I like to think I\u2019ve taught you a lot about feminism,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this is by no means the moment I cancel my dad live on stage. But in the last few years, there has been a growing criticism from a lot of people about the ways your film in particular treated women and people of colour.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to name a few of my faves: \u2018tree trunk thighs\u2019; Bridget [Jones] being overweight when she\u2019s just a very skinny white woman; multiple counts of inappropriate male behaviour in Love, Actually including the actual prime minister; a general feeling that women are visions of unattainable loveliness; and the noticeable lack of people of colour in a film called Notting Hill, which was quite literally one of the birthplaces of the British black civil rights movement. Looking back, are there things you wish you\u2019d done differently?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Curtis replied: \u201cYes, I wish I\u2019d been ahead of the curve because I came from a very undiverse school [Harrow] and bunch of [Oxford] university friends, I think that I\u2019ve hung on, on the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn\u2019t know how to write those parts. I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t know. I feel as though me, my casting director, my producers, just didn\u2019t think about it, just didn\u2019t look outwards enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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