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"Love Actually": Things You Didn't Know About the Rom-Com
At Christmas, you archer the truth.
And the information is Hugh Grant didn't privation to movie his iconic creation country successful the 2003 vacation movie Love Actually.
"I deliberation I saw it successful the script," the actor, 62, recalled during The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special, "and I thought, 'Well I'll hatred doing that.'"
And helium did. So overmuch so, successful fact, that the movie's writer and manager Richard Curtis shared that Grant "kept saying no" to the scene. Still, it was portion of the job.
"He was grumpy," Curtis remembered of filming that day. "It was a contractual obligation, a spot of a contractual work acting."
So what did helium deliberation when the Notting Hill star yet started busting immoderate moves? "I'm thinking, 'Oh, bully he's doing it," Curtis continued. "Two, that's agonizingly embarrassing. He's conscionable perfect."
However, Grant thinks his show doesn't rather deed the mark. "I'm retired of bushed by the way," the Four Weddings and a Funeral actor told Diane Sawyer, "especially astatine the opening erstwhile I wiggle my ass."
Another critique? Grant, who played a recently elected British premier minster successful Love Actually, said there's besides a infinitesimal erstwhile his "lips are retired of synch" with the Pointer Sisters' opus "Jump (For My Love)" playing successful the background. However, adjacent helium admits it wasn't each bad.
"But I volition springiness myself this credit," Grant shared. "It was my thought to person the caput woman drawback me. Genius!"
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This isn't the archetypal clip The Undoing alum had expressed his loathing implicit having to movie the scene. He besides did truthful successful the 2019 BBC Two documentary Hugh Grant: A Life connected Screen.
"Imagine, you're a grumpy 40-year-old Englishman, it's 7 o'clock successful the morning, you're stone-cold sober and it's, 'OK, Hugh, if you'd similar to freak retired now," helium said, aboriginal adding, "It was implicit hell."
Still, Grant apt knows that the emotion for the country really is each around.
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special airs Nov. 29 astatine 8 p.m. EST connected ABC and volition beryllium disposable to watercourse the adjacent time connected Hulu.
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