{"id":26949,"date":"2022-12-01T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/the-love-actually-cast-reflect-in-20-year-special\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:33:05","slug":"the-love-actually-cast-reflect-in-20-year-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/the-love-actually-cast-reflect-in-20-year-special\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Actually Cast Reflect in 20-Year Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qu91teBkrkA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018Love Actually\u2019 director gives behind-the-scenes look at iconic scenes: Part 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qu91teBkrkA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Love-Actually-Movie-GIFs-36104210\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Love-Actually-Movie-GIFs-36104210\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The &#8220;Love Actually&#8221; forged<\/a> \u2014 or at the very least a few of them \u2014 took a while to relive recollections of the traditional vacation film in a brand new primetime particular. On Nov. 29, practically 20 years after the movie first aired, Diane Sawyer hosted a particular known as &#8220;The Laughter &amp; Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later&#8221; in celebration of the event.<\/p>\n<p>In it, director Richard Curtis and stars <span class=\"nofilter\">Hugh Grant<\/span>, <span class=\"nofilter\">Emma Thompson<\/span>, <span class=\"nofilter\">Laura Linney<\/span>, Bill Nighy, Martine McCutcheon, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster all sat down to debate their recollections of the film. One of their foremost subjects of debate was Grant&#8217;s curmudgeonly nature. &#8220;He&#8217;s typically cranky and sad, however he&#8217;s additionally the one particular person on the earth who&#8217;s by no means despatched me a textual content that hasn&#8217;t made me snort,&#8221; stated Curtis of the actor&#8217;s character. &#8220;Hugh finds everybody annoying,&#8221; joked Thompson, earlier than Grant stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m not simply depressing myself, I prefer to make everybody round me depressing if I can.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As it seems, Grant was a bit cranky through the filming of &#8220;Love Actually&#8221; \u2014 notably throughout his notorious dancing scene. &#8220;No Englishman can dance once they&#8217;re sober at 8 within the morning,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;He was grumpy, however he knew, it was a contractual obligation,&#8221; Curtis laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Grant additionally had his doubts after seeing the film, and he wasn&#8217;t the one one. &#8220;I sat there pondering, &#8216;God, it is fairly type of on the market, is not it?'&#8221; Thompson recalled. &#8220;And then Hugh got here up behind me as we have been strolling out and stated, &#8216;Correct me if I&#8217;m incorrect, however is that probably the most psychotic factor we have ever been in?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a bit psychotic!&#8221; Grant countered. &#8220;Like I stated, it is Richard on steroids. When he writes about love, he means it and that&#8217;s fairly uncommon.&#8221; He did say he is come to an understanding of the film over time, with a little bit assist from his spouse, Anna Elisabet Eberstein. &#8220;I did drunkenly watch a little bit of &#8216;Love Actually&#8217; a couple of months in the past with my spouse, and she or he was the one who stated  . . . &#8216;It&#8217;s all about ache. It&#8217;s all about struggling,'&#8221; Grant advised Sawyer through the interview, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2022-11-30\/love-actually-reunion-hugh-grant-wife-anna-eberstein\" class=\"track-outbound\" onclick=\"trackOutboundLink(&#039;article:page&#039;, &#039;www.latimes.com&#039;, &#039;49027024&#039;, &#039;https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2022-11-30\/love-actually-reunion-hugh-grant-wife-anna-eberstein&#039;)\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2022-11-30\/love-actually-reunion-hugh-grant-wife-anna-eberstein\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis, for his half, made it clear that he stands by the movie&#8217;s themes. &#8220;We get 1000&#8217;s of movies about serial killers, and there is solely ever been about 9 of them,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;And but, there will be one million folks falling in love, feeling it is probably the most attention-grabbing moments of their lives.&#8221; However, he does have some regrets. &#8220;There are stuff you&#8217;d change, however thank God society is altering. So my movie is certain, in some moments, to really feel old-fashioned,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;The lack of variety makes me really feel uncomfortable and a bit silly. There are three plots which have bosses and individuals who work for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has additionally come to an understanding of what is made the film so enduringly beloved. &#8220;I so get it,&#8221; Thompson stated. &#8220;We neglect, time and time once more we neglect, that love is throughout us. It&#8217;s all that issues. My grandmother used to say your coronary heart&#8217;s no good as a coronary heart till it has been damaged 10 instances. There&#8217;s one thing in regards to the scar tissue that makes it stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The particular wasn&#8217;t with out its bittersweet features. <span class=\"nofilter\">Alan Rickman<\/span>, who performed Thompson&#8217;s character&#8217;s husband, Harry, sadly could not seem, as he died in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t the primary time the forged has gotten again collectively. Kiera Knightley, Liam Neeson, Grant, and lots of the different stars \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Why-Isnt-Emma-Thompson-Love-Actually-Sequel-43221781\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Why-Isnt-Emma-Thompson-Love-Actually-Sequel-43221781\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minus Rickman and Thompson, who felt it was too quickly after the previous&#8217;s demise<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Love-Actually-Characters-Now-43579054\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/Love-Actually-Characters-Now-43579054\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reunited for a minisequel known as &#8220;Red Nose Day Actually&#8221; in 2017<\/a>, which tied up some unfastened ends from the primary film.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Laughter &amp; Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later&#8221; is now streaming on Hulu.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\nFB.init({\nappId     : '175338224756',\nstatus    : true, \/\/ check login status\nxfbml     : true, \/\/ parse XFBML\nversion : 'v8.0'\n});\nONSUGAR.Event.fire('fb:loaded');\n};\n\/\/ Load the SDK Asynchronously\n(function(d){\nvar id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\nif (typeof scriptsList !== \"undefined\") {\nscriptsList.push({'src': 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js', 'attrs': {'id':id, 'async': true}});\n}\n}(document));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The &#8220;Love Actually&#8221; forged \u2014 or at the very least a few of them \u2014 took a while to relive recollections of the traditional vacation film in a brand new primetime particular. 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