While the scope of the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually seems ambitious, following 10 loosely criss-crossing storylines set in the weeks leading up to Christmas in London, writer and director Richard Curtis told journalist Diane Sawyer in 2022 that the message of the film is simple. “I think when you get it right, films can act as a reminder of how lovely things can be,” he said. “And how there are all sorts of things which we might pass by, which are, in fact, the best moments of our lives.”
Two decades on, audiences are still feeling the love, with the equally heartbreaking and heart-warming film morphing into a beloved contemporary Christmas classic. “I don’t think any of us expected it to become a phenomenon,” Keira Knightley told in 2017, ahead of the premiere of a mini-sequel