(Sam's real father's fate is never mentioned, he could be Tony Blair for all we know). The two negotiate their grief together as Sam is in love with a 10-year-old chanteuse named — heavy sigh — Joanna. Sam learns the drums so he can play in her Christmas band.
Meanwhile, Daniel relied on his good friend Karen to help him through losing his partner, with care and some tough love. Sam attended the same school as Karen's children.
Love Actually originally featured two additional plotlines: one featuring a lesbian couple, and the other a man and woman in Africa. Neither ever made it to the final cut. It's a disappointing decision, in hindsight, and we'd love to see a new edit that put them back where they belonged.
Karl, for his sins, gives up pretty easily on trying to make love to her. The affair is over before it began. A scene at the end of the film makes it clear that their romance progresses no further. They wish each other a good night, as usual, with a mournful 'Merry Christmas'.
Though the characters' near-love scene proves that Karl reciprocates Sarah's feelings, a complicated situation with her mentally ill brother ultimately gets in the way of their romance.
What illness does Sarah's brother have in Love Actually?
In Richard Curtis' 2003 holiday rom-com, the selfless Sarah devotes herself tirelessly to two things. One is her job and the other is her role as caretaker for her brother Michael (Michael Fitzgerald), who suffers from a mental illness. Sarah has dreams.
Are there two versions of the movie Love Actually?
The 2009 US Blu-Ray actually contains the UK cut of the film, while the original US DVD had the US cut. An airplane safe version of the movie removes the intimacy stand-in storyline, as well as all nudity and swearing.
Arguably one of the most joyful scenes of the whole film, the footage of loved ones reuniting in Heathrow Airport at the end of Love Actually is entirely real. The camera crew set-up shop at the bustling airport for a week, filming friends and families meeting once again.
Thompson thinks she's receiving the necklace. Then she realizes the betrayal when she opens the gift. and sees it's none other than a Joni Mitchell CD. As she retreats to the bedroom to pull herself together.
(Joanna said Daniel could bring Claudia Schiffer as his date). Things are complicated by the fact that Daniel is only Sam's stepfather. (Sam's real father's fate is never mentioned, he could be Tony Blair for all we know).
Fortunately, a fan asked that very question during the screening, and Freud said: “They stay together but home isn't as happy as it once was.” Which is actually more heartbreaking than if they had broken up.
Who was Olivia Olson in Love Actually? In the Christmas film, Olivia played Joanna, the crush of schoolboy Sam who learned to play the drums to impress her after his mother died.
We call this dedication. Luckily, his dad plays drums and was able to teach him. Pretty handy if you ask us! Thomas still plays the drums even now - which is all the proof you need that Love Actually is for life, not just for Christmas.
Instead, I'm still trying to process the fact that Keira Knightley, who was 18 at the time of filming, was closer in age to Thomas Brodie-Sangster (who played Liam Neeson's primary-school-aged son in the film) than she was to her fictional husband Peter (played by 26-year-old Chiwetel Ejiofor).
The final lines of LOVE ACTUALLY, are the Prime Minister telling his new lover, who is fit but about whom fat jokes have been made throughout, "God, you weigh a lot," to which she replies, "Oh shut your face." That's it. That's the end of the movie.
By now, you're familiar with lots of trivia from the cult classic — yes, the opening scene in the airport features real people; yes, that is actually Olivia Olson belting "All I Want for Christmas Is You" — so we combed every corner of the internet to find 22 more things you need to know.
Love Actually originally had two storylines that were cut, including a scene in Kenya and a same-sex romance. The African storyline in Love Actually portrayed a simplistic view of Africa and perpetuated stereotypes about hardship, which could have been avoided by showing diversity within the UK.
The romcom originally included a relationship between the headmistress (Anne Reid) of the school that hosts the final Christmas concert, and her partner Geraldine (Frances de la Tour). Deleted scenes show the headmistress return from school to find her partner, who is terminally ill, in bed.
After discovering his girlfriend in flagrante, Jamie travels to the south of France to a small lakeside cottage where he can disconnect with the world and get to work writing his novel. Here he meets and bonds with Aurelia (Lucia Moniz), a Portuguese cleaner who doesn't speak a word of English.
Though Sarah and Karl don't end up together in the movie, Linney's character does have a happy ending, as chronicled in the Love Actually mini-sequel released in honor of Red Nose Day in 2017.
One fan of the movie decided there was no better time to ask THAT question, and Freud's response finally tied up that old loose end. So yes, Karen and Harry stayed together. But their home was NEVER EVER the same again. We still think she should have run off with Liam Neeson.
