FOUR (SILVER) WEDDINGS
25 years on from that smash movie, Hugh Grant and Co. reunite
IT has been 25 years – or perhaps you hadn’t noticed. So the cast of Four Weddings And A Funeral are gearing up to celebrate its silver anniversary.
The stars of Richard Curtis’s 1994 romcom reunited for a Comic Relief film to be shown during a television fundraiser next month.
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell and Kristin Scott Thomas have returned to shoot scenes picking up from where the original left off.
While producers have kept plot details tightly under-wraps, it is thought that Lily James, 29, will play the daughter of Grant’s character, Charles. Whether or not he ended up with the object of his desire, Carrie, played by Ms MacDowell, remains to be seen.
Here is the guest list:
1 ROWAN ATKINSON, 64
Since playing the hapless priest who stutters over wedding vows, Atkinson has taken his comic TV creation Mr Bean to the big screen and starred in the Johnny English films. He had a cameo in Curtis’s 2003 film, Love Actually.
2 KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, 58
She played wealthy ice queen Fiona, who had a crush on Charles. In 1996 she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in The English Patient. She has since won an Olivier Award for her stage role in The Seagull, has starred in the films I’ve Loved You So Long, Nowhere Boy and Darkest Hour, and in 2017 was made a dame.
3 SOPHIE THOMPSON, 57
As Lydia she proved the bridesmaid can be the bride. The sister of Emma Thompson, she is a five-time Olivier Award nominee, winning for Into The Woods in 1999. Her diverse career has seen her star in TV soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street as well as on the big screen in Gosford Park and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
4 JOHN HANNAH, 56
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as his character, Matthew, recited W H Auden’s Stop All The Clocks at the funeral of his partner Gareth (Simon Callow) during Four Weddings. He has since starred on the big screen in Sliding Doors and The Mummy trilogy. On TV he played the world-weary detective Rebus for one series and appeared in Cold Blood.
5 ANDIE MACDOWELL, 60
After playing Carrie, the glamorous object of Charles’ affections who ends up kissing him in the rain, the US actress and model continued her Hollywood career. She has had a series of hits and misses and most notably starred in The End Of Violence and Love After Love. She has modelled for Calvin Klein and been the face of L’Oréal cosmetics. Last month she joined the cast of BBC sitcom Cuckoo.
6 HUGH GRANT, 58
After his breakthrough role as Charles in the hugely successful romcom, Grant became pigeonholed in the genre, starring in Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes, the Bridget Jones films, About A Boy and Love Actually. More recently he has been acclaimed for noncomedy roles in films such as Florence Foster Jenkins and on TV as Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC’s A Very English Scandal.
7 ANNA CHANCELLOR, 53
Then best known for her appearance in a beer advert, she was the unfortunate ‘Duckface’ – Henrietta – jilted by Charles on her wedding day. She has had acclaimed TV roles in Spooks and The Hour, and was in Tipping The Velvet.
8 DAVID HAIG, 63
As Bernard, he married Lydia in the second wedding. Haig has gone on to find acclaim in comedies such as The Thin Blue Line, with Atkinson. He has written several plays, including My Boy Jack, in which he took the role of Rudyard Kipling and which was turned into a TV film starring Daniel Radcliffe. In 2002, he played Grant’s brother in Two Weeks Notice. He was in TV drama Killing Eve and will appear in the film of Downton Abbey.
9 JAMES FLEET, 66
His bumbling but lovable Tom appeared finally to find love at the end of the film. Since then Fleet is best known for his role as the dimwitted Hugo in Curtis’s sitcom The Vicar Of Dibley. Screen credits include Love & Friendship and Mr Turner. He starred with Ms Scott Thomas in the Three Sisters.