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SM1 SM1 Special feature 32 SUNDAY MIRROR 13.04.2014 mirror.co.uk 13.04.2014 SUNDAY MIRROR 33 Tories slash Wilko Get Stuff Done Week script actors tried thousand thousand international star. weeks million pound budget. To save car actors cinemas million dollars spent 20 FILM re-writes for Hugh’s Hugh was the other Andie was the to film money, Scots scenes were shared to originally on publicity in LA by Richard role before paid for ‘friends’ only name known all the shot by cinematographer’s get to showed alone – four times cash aid for Get those odd FACTS 17 Curtis his audition lead role were paid 1outside the UK scenes brother while on holiday locations 4film in US10 what it cost to make jobs off your list 72 35 17.5 6 2.7 1 the disabled and make your TORY ministers have been EXCLUSIVE BY FRANCESCA COOKNEY blasted for slashing cash home and AND STEVE MYALL used to improve disabled garden ship IT’S the film that turned Hugh access on trains and buses. Grant into a worldwide heartthrob Labour claims Transport shape. See how as charming-but-awkward hapless Secretary Patrick fromThursday’s hero Charles. McLoughlin has overseen a And nobody can forget Four Weddings 42 per cent cut from £43 And A Funeral’s theme song – Wet Wet 20 years after Four Weddings million to £25million a year. Wet’s Love Is All Around – which spent 15 And his junior minister weeks at the top of the charts. Robert Goodwill has refused Incredibly, when the movie was first to hold talks with disability released in 1994 its director Mike Newell groups about transport was convinced it would flop – just like the improvements. fringe of its leading man. The cast was The Government has also largely unheard of, the budget was minis- failed to adopt an EU rule cule and the plot was causing concern ...three love children, four that bus drivers must have with marketing teams across the pond. disability awareness training. Producer Duncan Kenworthy reveals: Shadow Transport “I remember getting a memo from America Secretary Mary Creagh said: saying, ‘Only girls like weddings and no ‘How can people with disa- one likes funerals’.” bilities trust that the Govern- But the film became a global box-office ment is on their side?” smash. At the time, it was the most divorces and another funeral Labour said fewer than New players: successful British film ever made – taking one in five railway stations £200million worldwide and winning five has step-free access. BAFTAs as well as an Oscar nomination WATCH for Best Picture. It made household names CLASSIC Sell house in Sign up and deposit of the cast and also introduced the world CLIPS FREE to Elizabeth Hurley when she wore “that dress” to the premiere. night by web The film followed a group of upper- at mirror.co.uk middle-class friends as they bumbled and estate agent boozed their way through the nuptials of Poetic £10 today and get justice: PROPERTY experts are their pals while Charles sought love with John’s glam-yet-unattainable American Carrie. recital as cashing in on soaring house Quite how this simple premise would Matthew prices by opening a 24-hour prove to be such a hit, no one could have Guest who: online estate agent. Kristin and Brothers Michael and guessed. But years later the film continues Hugh as Fiona to delight viewers. Its enduring appeal is and Charles Kenny Bruce say their undoubtedly down to the chemistry website – launched today and charm of its cast. – will let people buy or sell Twenty years, seven marriages, Three-star turn: a home within hours. Simon, Matthew Purplebricks.com will also four divorces, 17 kids (including love and Scarlett children) and one funeral on... we let house-hunters book a revisit the stars of the hit romcom. property viewing or allow [email protected] sellers to accept an offer at any time night or day. ■ The Reunion: Four Weddings Properties on the And A Funeral, today 11:15am Birmingham-based site will BBC Radio 4 be advertised on popular HUGH GRANT websites such as Rightmove THEN: Hugh had and Zoopla. been in various The move comes as the obscure German Vowing to be pals: housing boom spreads and Spanish films Charles and Carrie right across the country, at her wedding to Ex-love: Duckface with property sales since and a handful of Angus in Scotland Nice but dim: Tom American TV mini- the beginning of this year series. Screenwriter reaching a six-year high. Richard Curtis said that at first he depiction of homosexuality in Four in 2001 aged just 33 after an asthma attack. JAMES FLEET Weddings explaining how a scene showing Work following the film was sporadic and thought him too good looking for KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS ANDIE MacDOWELL THEN: He’d had numerous the part of Charles. But it catapulted Gareth and partner Matthew in bed had she suffered from depression and eating Legal chief to THEN: She almost didn’t been cut. “They were right to do so: viewers disorders. She said in 2000: “I’ve learned TV roles before being cast £30 Hugh, now 53, to stardom – as well bother auditioning for the THEN: Already a famous as bumbling posh boy Tom, had come to love them individually.” with hindsight that I could have exploited probe perv’s as his partner at the time, Elizabeth part of Fiona because she American actress, she was but became typecast as a to play Hurley, now 48, after she turned by far the biggest star in the JOHN HANNAH being in Four Weddings and gone to had been rejected by the America to promote it – but I didn’t.” “nice-but-dim” character. up to the London premiere in that director in the past and film in her role as Carrie. THEN: He was virtually pic demands safety-pin dress. She was married to former NOW: Married with one thought he didn’t like her. unknown before being cast son, James, 60, starred in NOW: Although Hugh has never model Paul Qualley, and ANNA CHANCELLOR THE Attorney General is to Also, producers at first said as “not posh” Matthew. His the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and look into the case of a married, he has three children they had three daughters. THEN: After a few small TV they didn’t think they could rendition of WH Auden’s has since been in Citizen Khan. convicted paedophile who ve got – a daughter and son with NOW: She continues to act, but divorced Funeral Blues made him an roles Anna was cast as We’ with afford her air fare to come to the London wants to keep photographs Chinese actress Tinglan Hong audition. She was married to a French in 1999. A second marriage ended in 2004. overnight star. Charles’s ex-girlfriend RICHARD CURTIS of his child victim. and another son with Swedish doctor at the time and lived in Paris. Currently single, Andie, 55, said: “Four NOW: Still a success he has Henrietta, known as Duck- TV producer Anna Eberstein. NOW: She and her husband had three Weddings is the best script I’ve ever read.” face. She has since told THEN: Before writing Four Dominic Grieve stepped starred in Sliding Doors and The Mummy in after it emerged police are 0,000 Since Four Weddings, he has children but have since divorced. series. John, 51, is married to actress Joanna how she came to audition: Weddings, Richard was 5 SIMON CALLOW powerless to stop him ouses starred in a string of romantic Kristin, 53, was Oscar-nominated for Roth and they have two children. “Someone said, ‘You really best known for his work on full h comedies, including Notting her role in 1996’s The English Patient. He was a long- must audition because it’s about posh comedies such as Spitting getting his hands on the THEN: CHARLOTTE COLEMAN every Hill and Love Actually. He She still lives in Paris and continues to established theatre actor people f****** in the back of Land Rovers’.” Image and Not The Nine laptop and phone pictures. has said: “Part of what was act in both French and British films to before being cast as the THEN: Charlotte was 25 NOW: She most recently starred in the O’Clock News. The man, 58, was jailed month!! ridiculous about my previous critical acclaim. However, she admitted exuberant Gareth. He was when she was cast as the BBC’s Pramface and newspaper drama NOW: He’s written two of for nine years in December acting incarnation was after Four Weddings: “We did get one of the first actors to eccentric, but adorable, The Hour. Anna, 48 has said of Four Britain’s highest-grossing films — Bridget for a string of sex offences that it was mainly serious.” pigeon-holed a bit afterwards. Playing come out publicly in 1984. Scarlett. She had previously Weddings: “It gave me a job, not massive Jones’s Diary and Love Actually — and has against his stepdaughter. And of Four Weddings, he Pin-up: Elizabeth in the dignified and depressed character is NOW: Simon, 64 – awarded starred as a child in the TV fame, a working career.” She divorced her won two BAFTAs, as well as an Oscar But as the family snaps are Join Mirror Bingo totodayday at added: “It changed my life that dress at something I’ve been escaping from a CBE in 1999 – continues to act in film, series Worzel Gummidge.

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