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It depends what you mean by "minorities". I notice that nobody complains about the dearth of Australians or New Zealanders in British movies. Or Spanish or French people come to that.
Assuming, that is, "minority" and "multicultural" are not being used as a euphemism for skin colour.
Come to that where is the lobby demanding to see more stutterers, soccer hooligans, or people with mental disabilities up on the big screen? All are minorities too, albeit not multicultural ones. Shouldn't they be jumping up and down and demanding better representation on the screen, big and little?
At the end of the day each movie is nothing more than some writer's fantasy. The idea that those in charge of those fantasies should be under some obligation to make them a closer match to real life is about as realistic as expecting the "Notting Hill" moviemakers to have cast (say) Hugh Bonneville and Emma Chambers as Will Thacker and Anna Scott rather than Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts (on the ground that chubby-faced guys and plain janes are rather numerous out in the real world and so ought to be entitled to a certain quota of starring roleswithout having to first undergo the sort of plastic surgery Julia Roberts' character implies she had to in "Notting Hill").

There are actually a lot of ethnic minority people in Friends. I never really looked until some PC do-gooder started banging on about it. Remember that they are minorities, that white people are in the majority.
LMC xxx
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At the end of the day, it doesn't matter THAT much. We are fans of the movie (I'm Black myself) and its not like people were boycotting it, but its a FAIR question, not just about Black people, but minorities in general in these movies. Why AREN'T there more minorities in sitcoms like Friends or movies like Nottingham when they take place in some of the diverse multicultural cities on the planet, but yet, if you were to watch certain movies or tv shows, you would never know there were anything but White people. It's a little disheartening, but it doesn't take away from the movie either, at least not for me.

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Who really cares? It's just a movie

What about the security guard at the film set on Hampstead Heath??? He was black.
"You made me miss!I've never missed that board before".

Obviously the person who asked the question and others as well.

Honestly, who cares?

I am a black actor and I resent your remark.

Wish that was a true statement.

ASIAN PEOPLE TOO! We EXIST too!

one of the security guards at the filming site who wouldn't Hugh grant in was black

i think its because (sorry)its a film about white folk, if it was about a black family you might not see any white folk. there are lots of american tv shows that do not mix blacks and whites.

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The director of Anna's film Helix was black, one of the the men in the restaurant gossipping about Anna was an Asian Indian, some journalists were black.

"paleness of the main characters"
Great line!!!

As a black woman (American), I was not put off by the lack of color in this charming movie. I've been to London once, staying chiefly in the Mayfair district and didn't see a lot of color there so I thought the movie realistic until reading some of the blogs here. Looking at the movie again through this lens, I noticed people of color in some of the street scenes outside the bookstore. More than anything, I appreciated the infusion of diversity into the great soundtrack, especially Al Green and Bill Withers. That more than makes up for the paleness of the main characters.

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Ok I take offence to this!! Someone said until Love Atually (which I detest) no one would know there were ethnic minorities here heard of East is East, Bend it Like Beckham?? Seen any international footy/soccer matches with the England squad in (not that our performance is anything to brag about)? I don't know why there aren't minorities in Notting Hill though, that is a valid point. My brothers lives in London and he just told me that there are plenty of minority groups around Notting Hill. I never noticed that there weren't any in the film though.

If someone complained about this to me and I was the film-maker, I'd tell them to go beep themselves. It's not an artist's obligation to cater to politically correct imbeciles. If somebody wants more of any kind of person in films, they should go out and make their own films and tell the stories they want to tell.

Its a well known fact in the UK (especially if ur near london)that Notting Hill (The Place) is a known as a VERY mixed race area.
To film it without any black people, asian people etc and just middle class looking white folk is technicly distorting reality a bit, I know its only a movie but come on tae beep Imagine a film featuring a harlem with no black people lol
The makers of the film (no specific names) just thot they'd get away with it cause most of the international audience wld be ignorant of this lol

so what

You're a fool. This film is a white wash film!!! The title Notting Hill is very diverse and has a lot of colour of different people!!!
It's like someone making a film about China Town and there is a lot of white people in it! Get my drift???