Love Actually star Alan Rickman got frustrated while filming a scene with Rowan Atkinson, reveals romantic comedy director Richard Curtis.
Alan Rickman was as frustrated as his character during one Love Actually scene. Directed by Richard Curtis, Love Actually featured a talented ensemble cast navigating nine intertwined love stories in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The 2003 romantic comedy film starred Rickman as Harry, a married man who begins to fall for his secretary Mia .
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY When Harry sets out to purchase said necklace, he does so while at the mall with his wife, who sets off on her own to buy presents for their mothers. Harry has a brief window of time in which to purchase the necklace for Mia and is almost foiled by the jewelry clerk Rufus' hilariously lengthy gift wrapping process.
“Rowan was just taking his time, so he would do eleven-minute takes, [then] he’d say... ‘look, let’s go back and do that, start [again],’ and poor Alan [Rickman] was there all the time going ‘grr, ugh.
Though viewers aren't necessarily rooting for Harry to get away with deceiving his wife, the character's frustration is palpable through the screen, which makes sense since Rickman himself was reportedly feeling it heavily. Despite its maddening nature, Atkinson's Love Actually scene is both key to the plot and an essential moment of comic relief.
In addition, Rufus' lengthy gift-wrapping process results in both Karen seeing Harry by the jewelry and Harry eschewing the gift-wrapping in favor of keeping the necklace in a box, a chain of events which leads to Karen sneaking a peek in Harry's pocket and seeing the gift, which later clues her in to Harry's potential affair.
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