FOUR WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL REUNION The cast get together for a sequel
The cast of the classic romcom have come together for a sequel
Hugh Grant is dubbing it the “wedding of the year”. And he may just be right. Twenty-five years after the romantic-comedy movie was released, the cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral have reunited for a sequel. Key stars Grant, Andie Macdowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson and others are reprising their roles from the 1994 flick.
The original movie, starring Grant as Charles, the bumbling, forever late wedding guest, was a worldwide hit, and catapulted the actor, who won a Golden Globe for his performance, to stardom. The sequel, all 12 minutes of it, is titled One Red Nose Day and a Wedding, and was made for charity as part of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day in the UK. It will air in the UK this month and in the US in May. So far, there is no release date for Australia. One Red Nose and a Wedding follows the success of 2017’s Red Nose Day Actually, which reunited the stars of Love Actually. Our first taste of the new sequel was a trailer released on February 27. In the clip, Grant, Macdowell (Carrie), James Fleet (Tom), Thomas (Fiona), John Hannah (Matthew), David Bower (David), David Haig (Bernard), Atkinson (Father Gerald), Rupert Vansittart (George) and others reintroduce themselves to the camera by name.
Grant then says the cast “requests the pleasure of your company at the wedding of the year”. He adds: “And please, don’t be late.” The trailer reveals there will be surprise guests at the wedding.
The sequel is set 25 years after the movie and centres on the wedding of a couple whose identities are yet to be revealed. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly on the set of the sequel, Hannah said: “It’s nice to be part of something for such a great cause, and also just catching up with people after 25 years.” Macdowell told WHO in December the script was “really good and funny”.
In the original movie, foppish Charles and an American woman, Carrie, meet and have a one-night stand, but later a series of missed opportunities keeps them apart.
The movie concludes with Charles leaving his fiancée Henrietta – aka Duckface – (Anna Chancellor) at the altar, and running to Carrie. As they stand in the rain, she utters the movie’s somewhat cheesy closing line, “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.” Macdowell has since defended the infamous line, saying “The character was so in love, she wasn’t thinking about the fricking rain.”