Love Actually director Richard Curtis uncomfortable with movie's lack of diversity

Love Actually manager Richard Curtis has said helium feels "a spot stupid" astir parts of his 2003 Christmas rom-com, including its deficiency of diversity.

Curtis admitted elements of the movie are present "bound to consciousness retired of date".

The British filmmaker added that galore people's ongoing emotion for his movie was "really touching", however.

Curtis made the remarks connected The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later, a one-hour peculiar broadcast connected US TV transmission ABC.

He appeared connected the programme alongside stars Hugh Grant, Dame Emma Thompson and Bill Nighy, arsenic good arsenic Laura Linney and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Asked by anchor Diane Sawyer if determination were immoderate elements of the movie that "made you wince", Curtis replied: "There are things that you would change, but convey God nine is changing.

"My movie is bound successful immoderate moments to consciousness retired of date," helium said. "The deficiency of diverseness makes maine consciousness uncomfortable and a spot stupid.

"There is specified bonzer emotion that goes connected each infinitesimal successful truthful galore ways [in beingness generally], each the mode astir the world, and makes maine privation my movie was better.

"It makes maine privation I'd made a documentary conscionable to benignant of observe it."

He aboriginal added however films, erstwhile done well, tin "act arsenic a reminder of however beauteous things tin beryllium and however determination are each sorts of things which we mightiness walk by, which are successful information the champion moments successful our lives".

The star-studded Love Actually pulls unneurotic a drawstring of abstracted but inter-linked romanticist tales into 1 festive feast, which galore viewers proceed to devour to this day, portion others find it, successful parts, problematic and sexist.

The container bureau smash deed received 2 Golden Globe awards arsenic good arsenic alternatively mixed reviews from critics.

At the time, Variety's Todd McCarthy called it "a roundly entertaining romanticist comedy" and a "doggedly cheery confection", portion Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times labelled it arsenic "a belly-flop into the oversea of romanticist comedy".

In a retrospective review, BBC Culture's Nicholas Barber noted however "there's really nary emotion successful Love Actually", suggesting "Lust Actually" mightiness person been a amended title.

During the aforementioned ABC show, immoderate of its stars praised Curtis, with Dame Emma describing the Comic Relief co-creator arsenic a antheral with a "golden heart".

"He's genuinely a bully idiosyncratic [and] successful our concern that's thing that [is] to beryllium treasured."

Grant added: "He is funny, that's a achromatic and achromatic thing... and [the story] comes from the heart, it's true."

Nighy, won a Bafta for champion histrion successful a supporting relation for his relation successful the film, said it was "wonderful to beryllium a portion of".

"It's astonishing the mode it's entered the language," helium said.

"I person radical coming up to maine saying it got maine done my chemotherapy, oregon it got maine done my divorce, oregon I ticker it whenever I'm alone. And radical bash it."

Elsewhere connected the programme, Nighy's co-star Grant, who portrayed a fictional UK premier curate successful Love Actually, said his celebrated Downing Street creation is "the astir excruciating country ever committed to celluloid".

In the country helium is seen gyrating astir the offices of Number 10 Girls Aloud's mentation of The Pointer Sisters' 1983 way Jump, earlier being caught by his idiosyncratic secretary.

Down the years, galore radical person recreated the creation online, specified arsenic erstwhile WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker.

"I deliberation I saw it successful the publication and thought 'I'll hatred doing that'," recalled Grant. "No Englishman tin creation erstwhile they're sober astatine 8am successful the morning," helium joked.

"And to this day, you know, there's galore people, and I hold with them, and we deliberation it's the astir excruciating country ever committed to celluloid.

"But past immoderate radical similar it."

Director Curtis said the histrion - who helium besides formed successful Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill - had been "grumpy" astir performing the routine, but went done with it owed to "contractual obligation".