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Topics: TV And Film, Hugh Grant
Maxine Harrison
Topics: TV And Film, Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant has admitted he's still 'haunted' by one of his scenes in Love Actually, despite it being a fan-favourite moment.
Released in 2003, Love Actually has grown to be one of the most popular Christmas movies out there, and each year we all tune back in and attempt to hold back the tears as we watch Karen (Emma Thompson) discover that necklace.
Thompson herself has looked back on filming that scene, revealing 'it was really easy to do'.
"I knew what being heartbroken felt like, so it wasn't difficult. We did it about, I don't know, four or five times. Richard Curtis [was] snivelling in the corner, which is very funny," she told GQ.
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"It was just that thing of - that I'd so understand of people - crying, but not wanting to cry, and then having to cover it up."
Grant is also among those reflecting on his time filming the festive favourite, confessing that there's one scene that he found 'excuritating'.
In the festive flick, Grant, of course, stars as the UK prime minister, and while two decades have passed since the film hit screens, the 65-year-old actor is still reeling over the dance scene in the film... You know the one.
However, in somewhat of a reflective moment, he now thinks that he finally has dance moves that can redeem the scene.
The father-of-five said: “Now, I love dancing, I dance at any moment. If I’m standing in Starbucks, if there’s music, I think it’s good manners to dance. My children are horrified; they beg me not to.”
Even though the moment - which sees him busting some moves around Number 10 to 'Jump' by The Pointer Sisters - is one of the most memorable, for Grant it is one of his least favourites.
Describing how he felt about the scene when reading the script, he shared in a ABC News special: “I saw it in the script and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll hate doing that'."
He added: “I didn’t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.”
He joked: “And to this day, there’s many people, and I agree with them, who think it’s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid. But then some people like it”.
The iconic dance scene is abruptly interrupted and ends with the prime minister’s secretary coming into the room, with Grant revealing that was his idea.
So if you do happen to tune into Love Actually over the Christmas holidays, just keep in mind that Grant swears that his dance moves have since improved significantly.