11 things you didn't know about 'Love Actually' (2024)

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11 things you didn't know about 'Love Actually'? ›

"I was stuck airside, and I suddenly saw all this extraordinary emotion. And I thought, That is the proof that there is so much overflowing love in the world, and it's absolutely core to people's lives," 3. Better yet, the airport reunion clips weren't staged.

"I was stuck airside, and I suddenly saw all this extraordinary emotion. And I thought, That is the proof that there is so much overflowing love in the world, and it's absolutely core to people's lives," 3. Better yet, the airport reunion clips weren't staged.

Arguably one of the most joyful scenes of the whole film, the footage of loved ones reuniting in Heathrow Airport at the end of Love Actually is entirely real. The camera crew set-up shop at the bustling airport for a week, filming friends and families meeting once again.

The final lines of LOVE ACTUALLY, are the Prime Minister telling his new lover, who is fit but about whom fat jokes have been made throughout, "God, you weigh a lot," to which she replies, "Oh shut your face." That's it. That's the end of the movie.

Nighy delivers one of his best performances with this role, generating great laughs via the physicality of his performance. Nighy's stance and mannerisms while singing his song (and his literally flinching upon hearing the song later on) really bring Billy Mack to life.

While he didn't film the whole movie for free, Kris Marshall (who played Colin) returned his pay check for the scene where he's undressed by three American girls.

The 2009 US Blu-Ray actually contains the UK cut of the film, while the original US DVD had the US cut. An airplane safe version of the movie removes the intimacy stand-in storyline, as well as all nudity and swearing.

There's Emma Thompson's character, complaining she's fat and can only wear “Pavarotti's clothes” (Emma Thompson could be nothing but fabulous, though it was pretty disappointing to find out she wore a fat suit for this role).

Cut storyline

One story line consisting of two scenes, featuring the only gay love story, was cut and not included. In the first scene, Anne Reid, as the headmistress of Karen's children's school, is revealed going home to her terminally ill partner, Geraldine, played by Frances de la Tour.

Claudia Schiffer shows up briefly as Carol, Daniel's potential love interest whom he meets at the end of Love Actually. Schiffer is an iconic German supermodel who was married to magician David Copperfield during the late '90s.

Who speaks at the beginning of Love Actually? ›

The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world he thinks about the arrival's terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones.

The film is bookended by heartfelt scenes at Heathrow Airport, with Hugh Grant's character voicing that 'love, actually, is all around us' and can be seen in the slightest of ways. Between that, plenty of filming locations pop up across the British capital, from Oxford Street to Shoreditch, City Hall to Notting Hill.

Resta. In 2003, Moniz got her international break when she played the role of Aurélia in the film Love Actually, among a cast that included Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, and Rodrigo Santoro. Her character only speaks Portuguese, while Firth's only speaks English.

He has Dupuytren's contracture, which he inherited from his mother. The condition can, depending on its severity, cause contractures of the fingers, most commonly the ring and little fingers.

When Love Actually was released in 2003, Hugh Grant was 43 years old. Since Love Actually, Hugh Grant has continued to have a successful career with many roles in films such as Paddington 2 and The Undoing. He has also become a father to five children and got married for the first time in 2018.

Heathrow Airport

Terminal 3 is where the film was shot. If you enter the city via train, Gatwick Airport, or other means, you're in luck: you can get to Heathrow from Central London on the Heathrow Express in around 15 mins.

Yes. The story in The Terminal was inspired by the real-life situation of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who stayed in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years. How long can you stay in a terminal at any airport? Here is a story about a man that lived in the airport for 18 years.

Love is in the Air filmed in Queensland's Whitsundays, and in and around Airlie Beach. The Whitsundays can be found in north-east Australia, at the heart of the Great Barrier Reef along Queensland's central coast. The filming location is around 1,120km north of Brisbane, and 630km south of Cairns.