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\n#LoveActually<\/a> has far too many fat jokes, admits director Richard Curtis: “I was behind the curve, and those jokes aren\u2019t any longer funny. I don\u2019t 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<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/D8VQg2tEjV<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Variety (@Variety) October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
– On the weight jokes: <\/p>\n
\u201cI remember how shocked I was like five years ago when [my daughter] Scarlett said to me, \u2018You can never use the word \u2018fat\u2019 again,’\u201d Curtis said. \u201cAnd wow, [she was] right. I think I was behind the curve, and those jokes aren\u2019t any longer funny, so I don\u2019t feel I was malicious at the time, but I think I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.\u201d <\/p>\n
– On the lack of Diversity of his earlier films:<\/p>\n
\u201cI came from a very un-diverse school and a bunch of university friends,\u201d Curtis said when asked about the lack of diversity in his films. \u201c[With] \u2018Notting Hill,\u2019 I think that I hung on to the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn\u2019t know how to write those parts. And I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel as though me, my casting director, my producers just didn\u2019t think about it,\u201d he added. \u201cJust didn\u2019t look outwards enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
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