Wedding, baby, happy ending: “Notting Hill” ended the way romantic comedies end. Director Richard Curtis planned a less sugary sequel. But Julia Roberts waved her off.

And they lived happily ever after: that’s how most romantic comedies end. “Notting Hill” from 1999 was no exception. In the end, the glamorous Hollywood star (played by Julia Roberts ) and the somewhat clumsy bookseller ( Hugh Grant ) were a couple. Wedding bells, baby joy – the big table setting.

If it were up to director Richard Curtis, there would have been a sequel to the romcom classic by now. The filmmaker told IndieWire that he had been planning a short film sequel to the movie.

He had already dealt with his comparably saccharine works “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Love Actually” in a similar way. Both were given short sequels for the Comic Relief charity gala, more or less with the original cast.

In “Notting Hill,” Curtis had planned for the two main characters to get divorced. However, that didn’t work out for his female star. Roberts thought it was a “really bad idea” and politely declined to work on the film.

Julia Roberts doesn’t want a sad sequel to “Notting Hill”