Love Actually scriptwriter Emma Freud who is also the director Richard Curtis’ girlfriend tweeted while watching the movie with their son. In doing so, she answered some questions we’ve always wanted to know the answers to.
In light with this new revelation and Christmas just around the corner, we’ve put together 10 things you probably didn’t know about Love Actually.
1Love Actually was never intended to be a Christmas film
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2The word “actually” is spoken 22 times in the movie
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3Showing no signs of aging is Thomas Brodie-Sangster who played 13 year old Sam and is now aged 25 but played a 13 year old character in Game of Thrones
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4One of Freud and Curtis’ daughters plays the second lobster at the school concert and their son with the Spiderman face.
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5Curtis originally wanted to cast someone that just looked like Claudia Schiffer but when he couldn’t find anyone he offered it to her and she said yes!
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6Emma Thompson wore a fat suit playing Karen.
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7The whole team had a 45 minute debate deciding what underwear Lucia’s character should wear when she jumps into the lake. (The lake was actually only 18 inches deep so Firth and Moniz had to walk on their knees and pretend.)
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8Andrew Lincoln actually wrote those unforgettable signs telling Keira Knightley’s character he loves her.
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9Richard Curtis’ college girlfriend left him for a man named Bernard. He always writes an unpopular character named Bernard in all of his screenplays. This time Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman’s “horrid son.”
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10It was the most rented DVD in the UK in 2004
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