Love Actually

“I knew I was 17. It only seems like a few years ago that *everybody* else realised I was 17..."
Believe it or not, Richard Curtis originally had an even wilder idea for how the polarising storyline should end.
Your favourite Christmas movie proved to be a bit of a headache for filmmaker Richard Curtis.
Even director Richard Curtis admitted to finding the sequence "a bit weird".
Thomas said his classmates were a little "jealous" about him missing so much school to shoot the hit rom-com.
Chiwetel Ejiofor said some people think this character "should have been arrested".
This would certainly have changed the tone of that dramatic final scene.