"Love at first sight at Notting Hill" at 20: five anecdotes about the cult film
"Love at first sight at Notting Hill" at 20: five anecdotes about the cult film
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the movie "Love at Notting Hills"
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This Sunday night, TFX broadcasts "Love at Notting Hill," almost twenty years after its release in 1999. The cult film follows the romance between a Hollywood actress and a bookseller in London, respectively interpreted by Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant .
"Love at Notting Hill" is 20 years old this year! Released in May 1999, the famous film traces the love story between Anna ( Julia Roberts ), a famous Hollywood actress and William ( Hugh Grant ), a bookseller from London. One morning, the young woman pushes the door of the shop of the thirties and then begins a love story that has made more than one dream. The feature film was a huge hit with the audience at the time. Today, "Love at Notting Hill" has become a staple of cinema. Tonight, Sunday, April 28, TFX broadcast the film at 9 pm for his birthday.
5 anecdotes about the movie
When asked about the project, Julia Roberts was not motivated
In an interview with the "Guardian" , Anna's interpreter revealed that she did not want to make the film in the beginning: "The pitch is awful, no ? Do you want to play the biggest star in the world who falls in love with the bookseller? No! "But the actress finally met the film crew and she loved them so much that she started. Today, Julia Roberts talks about the movie as "a real little jewel."
The director of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" refused to make the film
Mike Newell was originally the director who had been approached to perform "Love at First Notting Hill". The latter refused, thinking he had already made a film of the same order with "Four Weddings and a Funeral" which was already Hugh Grant. Whatever we think, he said he never regretted this choice.
A worldwide hit
The famous William and Anna romance cost producers $ 42 million. After its theatrical release, the film generated nearly $ 364 million in profits. Which will be Hugh Grant's biggest hit at the movies and the third for Julia Roberts. The first being "Ocean's Eleven" with $ 451 million.
Hugh Grant did not like kissing Julia Roberts
In several interviews, Hugh Grant confessed to not having enjoyed kissing, the sublime, Julia Roberts. The reason ? The latter would have "the mouth too wide." "I had the impression to hear a faint echo when I kissed him," joked Hugh Grant during an interview for the television show "Alan Carr's Chatty Man Show ".
The Prophetic Bench
William's book on the famous film bench is "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", a novel that was to be the future project of director Roger Michell. The film will eventually be directed by John Madden under the name of "Captain Corelli".
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