How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’
- Posted on April 14, 2025
- By The Guardian
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How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’
‘I wanted to do an Australian Mike Leigh film. I was convinced it was terrible – but we showed it at Cannes and they went crazy. Audiences had never seen a character like that treated sympathetically’
