DOUBLE WHAMMY
IF YOU CAN make a good Christmas movie, you’re pretty much set for life. The popular ones — It’s A Wonderful Life, Elf, Home Alone, Love Actually — go into rotation indefinitely, cramming TV schedules and Secret Santa shopping lists every December. Paul Feig’s Last Christmas has a pretty solid shot of making that list.
With a script by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings, Last Christmas takes, somewhat randomly, the songs of George Michael as inspiration (the title is, of course, lifted from the Wham! Christmas hit). Emilia Clarke plays Kate, a young woman who works in a Christmas shop all year round. She’s surrounded by joy, but following a major illness — last Christmas — she’s lost her own faith in the world. Then a very handsome stranger, played by Henry Golding, comes along…
It’s charming, cheesy and thoroughly likeable, largely thanks to Clarke and Golding, a pair of actors capping off a couple of very big years. She’s just finished nearly a decade as Daenerys in Game Of Thrones and he’s still riding high on the success of Crazy Rich Asians. We pinned down the busy pair in London for a chat about stockings, stardom and the next 007.
What’s it like making something like this and being stuck in Christmas for months?
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