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Its pro-gay stance was shrewdly handled. Four Weddgs and a Funeral (1994)Viewed today, the film’s treatment of same-sex uple Gareth (Simon Callow) and Matthew (John Hannah) might seem tratgly y: displays of affectn between the pair are largely limed to warm glanc, and the word “gay” is never uttered. Four Weddgs, by ntrast, picted a happy, charismatic gay uple seamlsly tegrated to a predomantly straight iendship group.
Reflectg on the film a 2008 Guardian article, Callow wrote: “It almost fi belief, but the months after the release of the film, I received a number of letters om apparently telligent, articulate members of the public sayg that they had never realised, until seeg the film, that gay people had emotns like normal people. In the same Deadle terview, producer Dunn Kenworthy explas that the scene was tend to echo the funerals of gay men takg place across the untry at the time as a nsequence of the AIDs crisis.
“There are about six of my gay iends the scene… One of them died of AIDs the year the film me out so ’s a wonrful thg to be able to see him the film a big ’80s su. However, there has been some cricism of the fact that while the film had a same-sex uple at s heart, the show do not appear to have any such uple (or even any ma characters who are homosexual), somethg that might seem a b backwards nsirg the 25-year span between when the film was released and when the televisn seri premier.