Love Actually Director Regrets Weight Jokes, Lack of Diversity in Films

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Richard Curtis addressed criticism for featuring predominantly all-white main casts in several of his movies: 'I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that.”

Looking back at Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Richard Curtis regrets including negative commentary about women’s bodies in the films amid criticism in recent years.

While recently speaking at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, via Today, the director-writer recalled “how shocked I was like five years ago when Scarlett

 

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