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While the director of Love at first sight in Notting Hill was ready to produce a sequel to the love story between the characters of Anna Scott and William Thacker, Julia Roberts was not convinced by the script and would have vetoed the production of a second part.
Spoiler alert. While Love at first sight in Notting Hill ends with a scene of the couple formed by Anna Scott (played by Julia Roberts) and William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) married and expecting a child, the sequel could have been completely different. In an interview with the magazine IndieWire the film's screenwriter Richard Curtis revealed that he had considered a completely different sequel to this love story.
Having directed the spin-offs of various comedies, notably Love Actually et Four weddings and a funeralthe director revealed that he had considered one day producing a sequel to the great classic starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
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A sequel that the 57-year-old actress immediately vetoed. “I tried to make a sequel with Love at first sight in Notting Hillin which they were going to divorce, Richard Curtis said. But the project was interrupted by Julia Roberts. She thought it was a really bad idea.” And fans of the film will surely thank her.
“A hideous divorce” and “very expensive lawyers”
If Julia Roberts was totally opposed to the project, her partner Hugh Grant would have liked to produce his own sequel. Even though he couldn't stand his character in the movie. “I would like to make a sequel to one of my own romantic comedies to show what happened after those films ended. To prove the terrible lie that they all were,” he told Huffington Post in 2020.
He had already envisaged his own sequel to Love at first sight in Notting Hill. “I would like to play Julia and I, and the ugly divorce that follows with very expensive lawyers, children involved in a tug of love, floods of tears. Psychologically scarred forever. I would love to make this film,” he added.
