Simon Callow is labouring under no illusion as to which is the best known – and loved – film in his extensive back catalogue of credits, and he says it’s ‘wonderful’ that younger people are still discovering it today.
He also admits the star-studded cast felt it would be entirely their fault if the film wasn’t an ‘enormous success’ given its quality.
We are, of course, talking about Mike Newell and Richard Curtis’ seminal 1994 British rom-com, Four Weddings and a Funeral, in which Callow appeared alongside Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas and John Hannah, who played his character Gareth’s partner Matthew.
Revealing that ‘there’s no question’ about which film people come up and talk to him about most on the street, he told Metro.co.uk: ‘I’m amazed that young people discover it and fall in love with it immediately, and people still watch it. The number of people who say to me, “If I’m feeling a bit blue, I’ll pull out Four Weddings and a Funeral and watch it and I feel immediately better afterwards” – which is wonderful, except that I point out that I died in it!’
Chuckling at the thought, the Bafta nominee also reveals that he always felt it was his character that would be killed off.