It’s one of Love Actually’s most memorable scenes – Hugh Grant awkwardly dancing after settling in as Britain’s new prime minister.
But according to a new report, the moment isn’t as fondly remembered by the actor himself.
The film’s director, Richard Curtis, has said Hugh hated filming it.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, he said, ‘[Hugh] was hugely grumpy about it.
‘The fault line was the dance, because there was no way he could do that in a prime ministerial manner. He kept on putting it off, and he didn’t like the song — it was originally a Jackson 5 song, but we couldn’t get it — so he was hugely unhappy about it.
‘We didn’t shoot it until the final day and it went so well that when we edited it, it had gone too well, and he was singing along with the words. When you edit a dance sequence like that, it’s going to be a third of the length, and the bit he’s singing the words to isn’t going to be the bit of that moment, so it was incredibly hard to edit.’
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