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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, the nineteen ninety four

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Speaker 1: romcom Four Weddings and a Funeral is an all time

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Speaker 1: classic and transformed Hugh Grant from working actor to a

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Speaker 1: household name, and was for quite a while the highest

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Speaker 1: grossing British film of all time. But Hugh himself, just

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Speaker 1: ad minute before it came out, he was positive it

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Speaker 1: was going to be a bust, he tells Indie Wire.

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Speaker 1: It's true. We were all sure we've made a giant

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Speaker 1: turkey until the film had its first previous I was

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Speaker 1: clearly wrong. In The film changed my life. It was

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Speaker 1: the beginning of a happy friendship with screenwriter Richard Curtis.

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Speaker 1: I've always had the greatest respect for director Mike Newell.

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Speaker 1: He taught me things I used to this day. This

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Speaker 1: was the first movie written by Richard Curtis. It starred Hugh,

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Speaker 1: but certainly not the last. They went on to make

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Speaker 1: Bridgie Jones Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and more. That's

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