For a great deal of film lovers, it’s impossible to imagine the vacation season with out an annual rewatch of Appreciate Really. The cozy Christmastime rom-com has been a staple for families and friend groups for the earlier two many years, but for its director, a ton of the film just does not maintain up now. Richard Curtis uncovered components of the movie’s humor really don’t sit effectively with him anymore.

In individual, Curtis regrets all the jokes about excess weight in Really like Truly. In a person of the film’s storylines, the young political staffer Natalie is regularly mocked for her body sizing by various people. On the lookout back again, Curtis admitted he was “behind the curve” when crafting those jokes, which he concluded “aren’t amusing any lengthier.”

“I don’t forget how stunned I was like five yrs ago when [my daughter] Scarlett explained to me, ‘You can hardly ever use the word ‘fat’ again,” Curtis stated through a modern job interview at the Periods and Sunday Periods Cheltenham Literature Festival, for every Right now. “And wow, you were being correct.”

“I imagine I was driving the curve, and people jokes aren’t amusing any longer,” he ongoing. “I never truly feel I was destructive at the time, but I imagine I was unobservant and not as clever as I should really have been.”

Curtis also talked over the lack of racial range in Love Actually, which is an issue that has also been named out in his other rom-coms Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary.

“I assume mainly because I came from a very un-numerous faculty and a bunch of university friends,” Curtis stated. “With Notting Hill, I think that I hung on to the diversity issue, to the feeling that I would not know how to generate those people sections. And I imagine I was just sort of stupid and completely wrong about that.”

The current remarks echo a assertion Curtis designed in Love Actually’s 20th anniversary ABC exclusive final yr. “There are points you’d improve but, thank God, modern society is modifying, so my film is sure, in some moments, to experience out of day,” he claimed at the time.