As filming gets underway on Hugh Grant’s latest movie, Love Actually, in which he stars as a prime minister who falls in love with a tea lady, more details emerge on the production. The floppy coiffed British actor, who is still riding high following the success of his film About A Boy, stars opposite former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon in the £30 million project.
The film teams up Hugh once more with Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis, for whom it will be a directorial debut. A largely British cast list includes Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth and Alan Rickman.
Speaking during a visit to the Venice Film Festival this week, German actress Heike Makatsch, who also appears in the movie, described it as being “about love, mainly in London, around Christmas”. Meanwhile, her co-star Hugh Grant insists he will not be playing a Tony Blair lookalike, saying his role is based on a “totally fictitious character”.
The film, which is being made by Working Title, features several interlinking romances woven together against a background of contemporary London and Paris.
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