It was a freakish moment when we realized that the woman we were dealing with was actually both those things: this relaxed person and this untouchable, iconic object of which there are so many photographs." "I've never opened a door and seen 500 people.so yeah, it's certainly enjoyable."Ĭurtis found the opening montage largely lifted from Roberts' actual movie-star life more startling: "We said, 'F-k! That's who we're dealing with,'" he told Vanity Fairin 1999. "It's very easy when you're dealing with a very reasonable, lovely, relaxed, 30-year-old woman to forget that that's also the Julia Roberts who, for 10 years beforehand, you could never have gotten within a hundred yards of. "It's always fun if you can exaggerate a situation, thank goodness," Roberts said. What was not real, Roberts was thankful for, was the scene in which Anna opens the door of Will's flat to countless paparazzi snapping away-surrounded by, in what Grant called a "Fellini moment," dozens of actual paparazzi photographing the fake photographers. Overall, the scenes that illustrate what a huge star her character is are a "hodgepodge" of her life and Anna's, Roberts said. Some of the scenes of Anna walking red carpets, flashing her famous smile at the cameras and attending award shows is real Julia Roberts footage "from years gone by," she shared with E! News in 1999, as well as footage shot at the 1998 BAFTA Awards, which in real life she attended with her My Best Friend's Wedding co-star Rupert Everett. In real life, it does and it doesn't (more on that in a bit), but the matter at hand is that May 28 marks 24 years since Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts bumbled their way into each other's hearts as bookshop owner Will and Hollywood star Anna in the hit 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill, directed by Roger Michell and written by Richard Curtis, who would go on to direct the other movie you watch every time it's on, too, Love Actually. Is there any way that his little store on Portobello Road has survived as independent booksellers are shuttering their doors right and left? Did he expand to online sales or remain a brick-and-mortar traditionalist, still selling only travel books? We'd certainly like to think that, especially with Anna pulling in $15 million a picture, the TBC lives on. It's Will's shop, The Travel Book Co., that we're worried about, to be honest. But their ultimate compatibility isn't even the most pressing question! Plus, as you remember from the end of Notting Hill, they have at least one child together. Are Will Thacker and Anna Scott still together nearly 25 years later? In the end, did their separate worlds manage to mesh for the long run?
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