#LoveActually has far too many fat jokes, admits director Richard Curtis: “I was behind the curve, and those jokes aren’t any longer funny. I don’t feel I was malicious at the time, but I think I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.” https://t.co/M0cTAQHeZK pic.twitter.com/D8VQg2tEjV
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“I remember how shocked I was like five years ago when [my daughter] Scarlett said to me, ‘You can never use the word ‘fat’ again,’” Curtis said. “And wow, [she was] right. I think I was behind the curve, and those jokes aren’t any longer funny, so I don’t feel I was malicious at the time, but I think I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.”
– On the lack of Diversity of his earlier films:
“I came from a very un-diverse school and a bunch of university friends,” Curtis said when asked about the lack of diversity in his films. “[With] ‘Notting Hill,’ I think that I hung on to the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts. And I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that.”
“I feel as though me, my casting director, my producers just didn’t think about it,” he added. “Just didn’t look outwards enough.”
SRC : Variety
