Bizarre ‘Love Actually’ Deleted Scene Makes People Lose Their Minds

One of the beloved Christmas flicks to tumble out of the stocking every year may have appeared very totally different. 2003’s Love Really, written and directed by Richard Curtis, has a deleted scene that does the rounds yearly, revealing a weird backstory for one of many fundamental characters.

Within the scene, Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), the younger boy who’s fallen in love with American classmate Joanna (Olivia Olson), races by means of the airport to inform her how he feels earlier than she returns to the US. Within the deleted model of this scene, Sam is proven to be a skilled gymnast, who flips by means of a safety gate, cartwheels over baggage and swings down from a second-level walkway like he is doing an uneven bars routine on the Olympics.

Sure, that is actual.

“Within the unique drafts for the film, there have been plenty of mentions about the truth that Sam, the little boy, was an excellent gymnast,” Curtis stated of the deleted scene, “and also you casually noticed him when he was very unhappy being sensible at a gymnasium, type of doing double twists and turns and never getting any pleasure out of it in any respect.”

“When it got here to the airport and he needed to rush by means of the airport, he introduced his gymnastic prowess into play, and it is a very tough of how he would have been,” Curtis stated.

“Within the movie, there’s somewhat boy [Thomas]. His dad, Liam Neeson, and he are speaking and there is a throwaway line which is, ‘I am off to gymnasium membership, Dad,’ and within the boy’s bed room on the wall, there’s gymnastics footage,” stunt coordinator Lee Sheward instructed Metro in 2020.

Sheward stated the manufacturing needed to assemble a complete airport terminal in Shepperton Studios and fitted isometric bars into the roof construction. Then stunt performers acted out the leaping, vaulting and tumbling.

However the sequence did not match within the completed movie.

“Though he did apologize to me once I noticed him subsequent, Richard Curtis dropped it from the ultimate minimize as a result of he stated it did not actually really feel like that type of film,” Sheward stated. “So all of the expense, value of constructing and capturing all of it is not within the movie!”

Primarily based on these reactions, Curtis made the appropriate choice.

“The physique double is so blatantly a full grown grownup,” one Twitter person wrote.

“I all the time swap from working to cartwheels once I want a burst of pace,” wrote one other.

“I am torn between completely believing that is actual and never believing this might presumably be actual,” one other person wrote.