As the beloved holiday classic film celebrated its milestone 20th anniversary, two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson revealed she wasn’t paid very well for “Love Actually”.
The two-time Academy Award winner appeared on “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday and discussed a wide range of topics, but she couldn’t escape comments and questions from Fallon about the beloved 2003 classic, which interweaves multiple characters and narratives in an effort to explore love in its many forms.
Although Thompson, who portrayed the shattered, stoic wife of the late Alan Rickman, had a significant role in “Love Actually,” admits she doesn’t rewatch the movie.
“No. That was 20 years ago,” Thompson said. “You’re just saying, ‘I don’t think I was very well paid for that. There was that terrible trailer with the loo that really stank and had that sort of….’ That’s the things you remember, not the good ones.”
Although Thompson doesn’t reflect fondly on all aspects of the film now, the actor understands why “Love Actually” became a cultural sensation with longevity. It examines a universal theme that resonates with virtually everyone.
“I think we forget, time and time again we forget, that love is all that matters — it’s all that matters,” Thompson told Sawyer in the ABC special, adding that Curtis “reminds us in the film that’s very funny about love and all its messiness, its unexpectedness and that you’ll find love in the weirdest places, you know?”
The famous movie focused on 10 separate love stories, with Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Colin Firth, and Chiwetel Ejiofor among the cast.
Billy Bob Thornton, January Jones, Denise Richards, Elisha Cuthbert, Shannon Elizabeth, Claudia Schiffer, and Rowan Atkinson also made cameos in the ensemble piece. Claudia Schiffer famously pocketed £200,000, or the equivalent of $540,000 in 2003, for a 60-second cameo as Neeson’s love interest, as reported by The Sun.
