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Richard Curtis, director of beloved 2003 Christmas romcom Love Really, has revealed that the present’s well-known cue card scene might have been very totally different.
The movie stars an ensemble solid together with Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, and Andrew Lincoln as they face a collection of romantic challenges over the festive season.
Within the iconic scene Knightley’s character Juliet opens the door to Lincoln’s Mark as he stands exterior with a collection of cue playing cards that start, “Say it’s carol singers”, as he proceeds to profess his love for her. The clip has been parodied numerous instances for the reason that movie’s launch over 20 years in the past, even being utilized in nationwide election campaigns.
“I bear in mind very particularly doing it so I needed to have a method that he might present Keira how he felt,” Curtis instructed Netflix UK.
“I used to be in an workplace and there have been about 4 individuals working within the workplace and I stated what I’m going to do as we speak is consider 4 concepts after which put them to the vote.”
He then listed the choices he had thought-about that would have been within the ultimate reduce, changing the well-known indicators.
“I believe one in every of them was going to be an airplane with a kind of issues after it, one in every of them was going to be him filling the mews with flowers, I bear in mind this signal one which is absolutely stolen from a Bob Dylan video.”
He continued, “I went out and stated to the 4 individuals working within the workplace should you have been being flirted with, which of those would you favor? They positively picked the playing cards. so it was a neighborhood choice.”
Knightley just lately described the well-known scene as “creepy and candy.” The actor instructed The Graham Norton Present in November that she nonetheless will get stopped on the street by followers of the Christmas movie.
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She recalled how she was caught in visitors when a gaggle of builders subsequent to her started holding up indicators in a recreation of the scene.
“It was creepy and candy on the identical time, very like it was within the movie,” Knightley instructed the host.
Love Really has been reappraised a number of instances since its launch 20 years in the past, with critics debating whether or not the movie is as romantic because it initially appeared.
