Director and writer Richard Curtis says he wishes he was ahead of the curve on social issues. Who doesn’t?
In his spare time Curtis co-wrote both the Mr Bean and Blackadder series. He has a depressingly stellar resume of creating stories that millions of people have loved over the years, so what, if any, regrets could Curtis entertain?At the Cheltenham Literature Festival, when pushed by an interviewer on his movies featuring jibes about the size of women characters in his earlier films, he said “those jokes aren’t any longer funny”.
Children tend to be the first ones to pull their parents up on outdated attitudes. “Mummmmm you can’t say that any more!” they roll their eyes, cringing at our faux pas. You feed them, you love them and they get embarrassed. Charming. It can be hard to be lectured or learn something new from the same person you taught to use a fork, but that’s how life goes. You did it to your parents.
People should be encouraged to grow and challenge problematic parts of themselves, but how much grace should they be given for past mistakes?“Because I came from a very un-diverse 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.”
But while he should be commended for holding his hands up, Curtis still profited from those movies that contributed to damaging narratives in the cultural landscape. “I wholeheartedly take responsibility for this. I am sorry,” she said at the end of the nearly 10-minute long clip. “They’re part of a long list, an ongoing list, of people who get called out for racist tweets from their past; I don’t think by any means they are going to be the last ones,” McPherson said.
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