That’s why Julia Roberts rejected a sequel

“A very bad idea”

Julia Roberts rejected the sequel to the 90s cult film

Fans of “Notting Hill” are still waiting full of hope: but there will be no continuation of the romance. Julia Roberts has already rejected an idea.

Fans of the romantic comedy “Notting Hill” have to be strong: There will probably never be a sequel to the cult film from the 90s. Screenwriter and producer Richard Curtis revealed in an interview with “IndieWire” that he had actually thought about a mini-sequence as a sequel. “I tried to do one for ‘Notting Hill’ where the two of them would decide,” Curtis explained.

Julia Roberts, who plays Hollywood actress Anna Scott in the film, was strictly against it and rejected the suggestion of a divorce between the two protagonists as “a very bad idea”.

Hugh Grant, who plays bookstore owner William Thacker in the film, also expressed little interest in a sequel in a recent video interview with Vanity Fair. The actor made no secret of his struggles with his role: “Whenever I’m sitting at home after a few drinks and I’m flipping through the channels and the movie comes on, I think, ‘Why doesn’t my character have any balls?'” joked Grant.

“There’s a scene in the movie where she’s in my house and the paparazzi come to the door and ring the bell and I just let her walk past me and open the door. “That’s terrible,” said the 64-year-old actor. “I’ve never had a girlfriend, or now wife, who hasn’t said, ‘Why the hell didn’t you stop her? What’s wrong with you?’ And I don’t really have an answer to that – that’s how it was written. And I find him really despicable.

Curtis added that the proposed project was simply a short film, similar to the one he created in 2017 for a second installment of Love Actually as part of the Red Nose Day charity project.

Instead, the screenwriter and director tries to concentrate on new challenges. The 68-year-old recently made his music video debut with Ed Sheeran’s “Under the Tree” and is currently promoting his first animated film “A Tiny Christmas Miracle,” which will be released on Netflix in December.