"Because I came from a very undiverse school and bunch of university friends, I think that I’ve hung on, on the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts. I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that. [...] I just don't know. I feel as though me, my casting director, my producers, just didn't think about it, just didn't look outwards enough."
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In an event at The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, Curtis was interviewed by his daughter Scarlet Curtis. From "I’ll never put fat jokes in my films again, says Richard Curtis after daughter's criticism", The Telegraph (16 October 202) and "Richard Curtis laments jokes and portrayal of women in his early films", The Times (16 October 2023)
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