Alex Portée is a senior trending reporter at TODAY Digital and is based in Los Angeles. She has previously published food and culture pieces for Vogue, New York Magazine, Netflix Queue and more.
“Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Love Actually,” and “Notting Hill” may be mainstays of the romantic comedy genre, but their screenwriter, Richard Curtis, says they haven’t entirely withstood the test of time. During an appearance at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival — which ran from Oct. 5 through Oct. 15 — Curtis sat down with activist and writer Scarlett Curtis for an interview.
Just didn’t look outwards enough,” Richard Curtis said of his negligence of alluding to such history or culture in the film. The writer went on to lament his portrayal of women and his film characters’ negative commentary on their bodies. At the time of their theatrical debuts, the female protagonists in his films “Love Actually” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” were subject to Richard Curtis’ commentary on body size and workplace harassment from their bosses.
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