Sequel idea failed: Julia Roberts was against a sad “Notting Hill” sequel

Julia Roberts has rejected a possible sequel to romantic comedy Notting Hill. Screenwriter Richard Curtis revealed in an interview with IndieWire that he had an idea for a short film sequel to the cult film. What’s special: The characters of Roberts and Hugh Grant were supposed to get divorced in the sequel. “Julia thought this was a very bad idea,” Curtis explained. In the original film, Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Roberts) and bookseller William Thacker (Grant) fell in love and ended up getting married and expecting a child.

The new short film was supposed to be part of the charity project Red Nose Day, for which Curtis back in 2017 made a 17-minute sequel to the romantic Christmas comedy “Love Actually” with Hugh Grant in the role of Prime Minister implemented.

Hugh Grant called film character ‘despicable’

But Grant would have emphatically avoided a sequel to the film “Notting Hill,” which turned 25 this year. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the now 64-year-old recently described his film character William Thacker as “despicable.”

Julia Roberts (57) told British Vogue at the beginning of the year that playing a Hollywood star in Notting Hill was one of the most difficult things she had ever had to do.

Fans of the cult film, which for many is also part of the Christmas season, have to come to terms with the fact that there will be no reunion with Anna Scott and William Thacker. But the happy ending of the original remains.