I remember how shocked I was five years ago when Scarlett said to me, You can never use the word fat again.And, wow, you were right. In my generation, calling someone chubby [was funny] ... in Love, Actually, there are endless jokes about that. I think 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 feel I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.

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Richard Curtis was British screenwriter, producer and director. Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis is a British screenwriter, producer and director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known for romantic comedy-drama films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019), as well as the war drama film War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Read more on Wikipedia →

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