During an look on ‘CBS Mornings’, she defined: “I think he [Edward] passed away peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, smiling. And now she runs his business.”

The actors reunited nearly a decade later to movie 1999’s ‘Runaway Bride’ and Julia insisted the couple in that film get a happier ending.

Host Gayle King requested: “[Your character] Maggie literally rides off into the sunset with Richard Gere after leaving four other men at the altar. What happens to her?”

Julia then replied: “They stay together. He doesn’t die in this one. They’re going to stay together.”

When requested about her film star character from ‘Notting Hill’ who fell for a guide retailer proprietor performed by Hugh Grant, Julia stated: “She’s retired. She has six children and has maintained her waist size amazingly.

“Anna has additionally traded glamorous movie units for quiet days behind a store counter. [William] runs the bookshop nonetheless and now there’s somewhat knitting annex subsequent to the bookshop that [Anna] runs.”

However, ‘Notting Hill’ filmmaker Richard Curtis recently revealed he had a different vision for the characters and wrote a short sequel in which the couple split up.

Speaking on the Have You Seen? Podcast, Richard said: “Recently I wrote – I used to be going to do it for Comic Relief however it wasn’t adequate – I wrote ‘Notting Hill 2’.

“(It) was going to be a 10-minute special set in the divorce lawyer’s office with Hugh and Julia splitting up, and then they both realised they loved each other again.”

Curtis – who wrote hit motion pictures equivalent to ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and ‘Love Actually’ – went on to insist he is towards making sequels as they’re “a tricky road to go down”.

He stated: “I do think the second version of a romantic film is a tricky thing because what you do is you start with people who are together and you have to split them apart and then you have to put them back together again.

“The downside with dramas about marriages is that it is at all times actually obtained to be about both divorce or homicide and but the scenario with most marriages is that they only go on and on and on.

“Actually the most realistic versions… of how marriage potters along, often I think happens in comedies.”