‘Love Actually’ director Richard Curtis shared that his daughter helped him realize that his previous jokes about body-shaming are ‘no longer funny’
Love Actually director Richard Curtis is expressing his regrets about the film’s multiple body-shaming jokes.
Curtis noted that while he never meant to be “malicious” in his intent, he was admittedly “behind the curve,” explaining that those jokes are no “longer funny.” In the 2003 holiday film, which follows nine intertwined stories that examine the complexities of love, Natalie is the romantic interest of Hugh Grant’s Prime Minister David.
“I wish I’d been ahead of the curve,” he continued. “Because I came from a very undiverse school and bunch of university friends, I think that I’ve hung on, on the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts.” Following the film’s release, Zellweger, 54, reflected on the public’s obsession with her body size.
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