‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral
The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’
December 2020
Richard Curtis on Four Weddings: ‘I don’t know how fully I thought through Andie MacDowell’s character’
The film has topped a poll for the most rewatchable film. Its director, Mike Newell, sees why. So why would Curtis, who wrote the script, rather rewatch Elf?
May 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … Four Weddings and a Funeral
A bumbling Hugh Grant charms a headstrong Yank at an aristocratic cousin’s wedding in the Cotswolds and can’t shake her. Is it still entertaining? I’ve finally noticed
November 2019
How we made
How we made Four Weddings and a Funeral, with Andie MacDowell and Mike Newell
‘Honestly, I don’t get why the rain scene is such a big deal. It’s beautiful – and we were freezing filming it’
March 2019
TV review
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding review – Is it still funny? I hadn't noticed
Twenty-five years after the release of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Richard Curtis’s well-intentioned short sequel for Comic Relief gave rise to no laughs but some genuine pathos
December 2018
Digested week
Chief whip's desperate pleading breaks spell of dark arts
John Crace
Four Weddings and a Funeral sequel set for Red Nose Day
July 2018
Ranked
The 10 best Hugh Grant films – ranked!
From the ridiculously beautiful lead in Maurice, which is about to be re-released, to the foppish lovefool in Four Weddings, the smirking seducer in Bridget Jones’s Diary and the menacing role in Paddington 2, Grant is irresistible
May 2018
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
All hail the renaissance of Hugh Grant, freed from decades of romcom hell
Hadley Freeman
In A Very English Scandal, Grant has at last been allowed to pick up where he left off with Meredith
March 2018
This much I know
Andie MacDowell: ‘I’m kind of goofy’
The actor, 59, on escaping small-town America, her alcoholic mother, and why she still thinks about the last line of Four Weddings
December 2017
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
When Harry met Meghan: it’s every Richard Curtis movie rolled into one
Hadley Freeman
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a charming English posho wants to find love, but British girls just don’t come up to snuff
October 2016
Amber Rudd: I was 'aristocracy coordinator' on Four Weddings and a Funeral
Home Secretary was given the title as a way to be paid while working as an extra on hit Hugh Grant comedy
July 2016
Lost in showbiz
Four Weddings and a Reshuffle: Amber Rudd’s cabinet blockbuster
The home secretary recruited aristo extras for the classic British romcom. How would she cast the political remake?
June 2016
Theatre Q&A
Anna Chancellor: ‘I’m a bit “light ent” for those monumental classic parts’
The actress talks about her dream role in The Seagull, her debt to Four Weddings… and why we need more working-class writers
August 2015
Five best moments
Hugh Grant: five best moments
A look back at the career of Richard Curtis’s favourite leading man, currently stealing the show in The Man From UNCLE
June 2015
Andie MacDowell: ‘I have a problem with the word cougar. It’s demeaning’
The Magic Mike XXL star on playing a flirty, foul-mouthed mother in the male stripper movie, the southern upbringing that taught her ‘to be sexual was dirty’ – and why she wishes she had taken more provocative roles in the past
January 2015
Media Monkey
Russell T Davies says Hugh Grant's role in Four Weddings ‘infected’ drama
Queer as Folk creator wants to create the antithesis of Richard Curtis’s Four Weddings creation, Charles
October 2014
The Guardian profile
Kristin Scott Thomas: actor of many layers for whom the play’s the thing
Star who announced this year that she had turned her back on cinema sinks her teeth into the role of Electra
June 2014
Books blog
Is Jeremy Paxman right about new poetry's inaccessibility?
Do you agree with the Newsnight presenter that poetry has removed itself from popular culture? Can you think of examples that might make him think again?
April 2014
Four Weddings and a Funeral 20 years on – in pictures
Richard Curtis and Duncan Kenworthy talk Tom Lamont through their behind-the-scenes archive from Four Weddings and a Funeral
