Katharina Buczek
4. The Cards Used During Andrew Lincoln’s Seranade Were Handwritten By Him
Everyone knows and loves the scene when Andrew Lincoln’s character, Mark, shows up on Juliet’s doorstep with a boombox and large cue cards. Then, while playing tunes that are supposed to be Christmas carolers, he shares his love with Keira Knightley’s character.
As if this scene could not tug on your heartstrings more, though, Andrew actually revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he wrote the cards himself. Well, he did not write the script per se, but he did take over the actual duty of writing the words on the cards using a permanent marker.
“It’s funny because the Art Department did it, and then I said, ‘Well, can I do it?’ because I like to think that my handwriting is really good,” Andrew said.
“Actually, it ended up with me having to sort of trace over the Art Department’s, so it is my handwriting, but with a sort of pencil stencil underneath.”
5. Love Actually Was Never Meant To Be An Ensemble Or Christmas Film
According to Richard Curtis, he had actually written two separate films before deciding to combine the two into this groundbreaking film. The first was centered around David, Hugh Grant’s character. And the second was going to focus on Jamie, played by Colin Firth.
“I’d worked out who films on those subjects, and then I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t want to do these because they are just turning out to be a shape I know,'” Richard said in an interview with Vulture.
So, the director switched courses altogether and decided to create an ensemble film with various plot lines that all come back to one main root: love.
“I said, ‘I’d be more interested in writing a film about love and what love sort of means, and how, you know, about the subject rather than one example of a story about that subject.”
And boy, are we glad he did!
