Love Actually: the fun facts you didn't know about the film
All the trivia you didn't know about the Christmas movie: "Love Actually".
Love Actually fun facts . It was 2003 when Love Actually was released at the cinema, the Christmas film par excellence, but without excessive honeying and rhetoric. 19 years later we still love this ensemble comedy and it can't be missed in Christmas rewatches. With Hugh Grant , Keira Knightley and Emma Thompson it immediately becomes a great classic: different stories, initially there were 14 to then become 9, intertwine in a London in the early 2000s overwhelmed by the spirit of Christmas . Love is everywhere: Hugh Grant is the new prime minister and falls in love with a girl on his staff; her sister (Emma Thompson) is convinced that she is being cuckolded by her husband (Alan Rickman) who is in fact very attracted to a colleague, who had already made a writer (Colin Firth) lose his mind...
Kris Marshall acted for free
According to IMDB, he gave his check back because " it was really a pleasure to play with three girls stripping for me for 21 takes "
The beginning and end of the film are not acted
The airport scenes at the opening and closing of the film are real moments taken at the airport. No actors and no extras were paid for these
Hugh Grant hated the ball scene
The most iconic scene in the film? The light-hearted dance of the Prime Minister, aka, Hugh Grant. Apparently, however, the actor tried in every way to dissuade the director from letting him shoot the famous ballet, constantly postponing filming.
Andrew Lincoln wrote all the billboards himself
If Hugh Grant gets the funniest scene title, Andrew Lincoln gets the most romantic scene title. The famous "To me your perfect" billboards that made all romantics dream were actually all written by the actor himself. The reason? His (apparently) beautiful handwriting.
Emma Thompson and the fat suit
Poor Emma Thompson is not only cheated on and forgotten by her husband, but put on a "fattening" suit. The actress had to look rounder than she naturally is.
The role of Rowan Atkinson
With the usual irony that made him famous, Rowan Atkinson is the funniest - and slowest - clerk in the whole film. But that wasn't always the case. Originally his role was to be anything but: the actor was supposed to play an angel. In the original script, Rufus the salesman was supposed to leave the scene after helping Sam at the airport.
The river is actually only 50 cm high
Colin Firth and Lúcia Moniz shot all the scenes on their knees to make the water look deeper
Thomas Brodie-Sangster learned to play drums for the film
With a little help from his dad, little Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) learned to play the drums during filming but loved it so much he's still playing.
The word "actually" is said 23 times
Love is actually all around...
The Prime Minister and Sam are related in real life
Exactly! Actor Hugh Grant and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (young Sam) are second cousins.
In the beginning there were 14 story lines that intertwined
Some were eliminated, including that of " a very strict headmistress who treated her partner who was ill with cancer ".
In the American version, the song Sarah and Karl dance to is different
For the British, "Sugababes" while the Americans sing "The Trouble with Love Is" by Kelly Clarkson.
Many actors didn't even audition
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Lauren Linney and Claudia Schiffer were cast without even auditioning first.
