4 WEDDINGS: TAKE TWO
24 years on, Hugh and Co get back together for Comic Relief
IT is the sequel fans have been waiting nearly 25 years for.
Now the cast of Richard Curtis’s hit 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings And A Funeral have reunited for the first day of filming for a 12-minute Comic Relief special.
Curtis’s film producer wife Emma Freud shared a number of behind-the-scenes pictures from the set yesterday, giving fans a sneak peak of what to expect.
Images featured Andie MacDowell, 60, and John Hannah, 56, while leading man Hugh Grant, 58, was spotted on his way to the location.
American Miss MacDowell’s character Carrie, for whom Grant’s Charles famously pined throughout the original movie, was seen wearing a bright pink dress as she filmed a scene.
Other Four Weddings veterans seen on set included David Haig, Sophie Thomp- son, James Fleet and Anna Chancellor, who played the jilted ‘Duckface’.
While the plot of the reunion film has been kept tightly under wraps, it appears that the storyline will focus on the union of two of the main characters.
It seems clear that Carrie isn’t the bride, leading to speculation that Charles will marry his best friend Fiona, played by Kristin Scott Thomas.
Miss Freud also posted a photo of ITV breakfast show host Susanna Reid chatting to cast member Rupert Vansittart, who played George ‘the Bore’, and one of her standing next to a three-tier wedding cake with Curtis, 62.
Speaking about the film, Curtis recently told the BBC: ‘We’re all definitely older – I suspect no wiser. It’s been really enjoyable working out what’s happened to all the characters.
‘Now they get back together for the fifth wedding, where, as usual, not everything will go as planned.’
Four Weddings And A Funeral: Red Nose Day will air on March 15 next year.
‘Not everything will go as planned’