Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis recently spilled the beans on why Julia Roberts turned down the sequel of famous 1999’s rom-com starring Hugh Grant.
In an interview with IndieWire, Curtis was asked if he wanted to ever make a sequel to any of his past films. In response, he brought up Notting Hill.
However, the filmmaker also revealed that the movie could’ve had a sequel but Roberts was not a fan of the script.
“I tried doing one with Notting Hill where they were going to get divorced, and Julia [Roberts] thought that was a very poor idea.”
Unlike the 57-year-old actress, who opposed the idea of the leading characters opting for divorce, her costar Grant, agreed with the filmmaker’s idea.
Somewhere in 2020, the actor in a “Q&A” with HBO’s Twitter account the Unfrosted actor said that he would like to film a sequel charting the “hideous divorce that’s ensued”.
Grant said it would feature “children involved in tug of love, floods of tears, psychologically scarred forever”.
“I’d love to do that film,” the 64-year-old actor added.
Notting Hills starred Roberts as Hollywood film star Anna Scott, who walks into a bookshop in Notting Hill owned by William Thacker, played by Grant.