Emma Thompson.Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty, Universal Pictures
Emma Thompsonisn’t in a rush to rewatchLove Actually.
TheMatilda The Musicalactress, 63,saidonThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthis week that she doesn’t rewatch the beloved 2003 holiday rom-com.
Host Fallon, 48, told Thompson, “I like having you here during this time of year because you’re on every television —Love Actuallyis playing on every channel, every hour, and it’s so good. … Do you ever rewatch it?”
“No. That was 20 years ago,” she said.
“But it’s kinda fun to put it on and go, ‘Oh, I remember where we were when we were doing that!’ " suggested Fallon, to which Thompson responded, “Not really. No, you’re just saying, ‘I don’t think I was very well paid for that. That was that terrible trailer with the loo that really stank and had that sort of….’ That’s the things you remember, not the good ones.”
Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson inLove Actually(2003).Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
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ThompsonsaidonLive with Kelly and Ryanthis week that fans who rewatch Love Actually use it as “a form of therapy.”
“[Its popularity] is much more about the audience than about the movie. It shows you that we humans like to see things that remind us that loves the most important thing,” she said. “It’s weird. It’s like a form of therapy,Love Actually, now, I feel like.”
Thompson was among theLove Actuallycast members to reflect on the moviefor the recent ABC News specialThe Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Laterwith host Diane Sawyer. Grant, 62, told Sawyer thathe and his wife Anna “drunkenly” watchedthe movie and shared their reactions.
“It comes from the heart — it’s true,” he said of the movie’s themes. “And I did drunkenly watch a bit ofLove Actuallya few months ago with my wife, and she was the one who said, ‘Oh look, it’s all about pain; it’s all about suffering.’ "
Sawyer, 76, then said, “… and about awkwardness and little rejections and little disappointments in yourself.” Grant agreed, “Yes.”
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musicalis on Netflix Dec. 25.
source: people.com
