Richard Curtis turns to Al Pacino speech in bid to inspire global action

Richard Curtis has called for action to tackle the climate crisis (Ian West/PA)

Richard Curtis has said he turned to Al Pacino’s locker room speech from his film Any Given Sunday for his new project as he feels the world needs the “greatest half-time talk” to get back on track to achieve its goals on the environment and inequality.

The Love Actually and Notting Hill filmmaker has paired the famous lines from the 1999 movie alongside a series of images of wildlife destruction and emergency efforts in disaster zones to bring attention to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reaching their halfway mark.