History Trivia / LoveActually

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (''Taken''), Creator/AlanRickman (''Die Hard'' and ''Harry Potter''), Creator/ColinFirth (''Kingsman''), Creator/HughGrant (''Notting Hill''), Creator/EmmaThompson (''Film/NannyMcPhee''), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Caribbean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nanny Mcphee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Caribbean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nanny Mcphee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Caribbean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (Series/TheWalkingDead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nanny Mcphee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Caribbean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* DuelingWorks: Frequently compared with and sold in dvd bundles with another Christmas themed feel-good romantic comedy about different couples, Film/TheHoliday.

* [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actor Existence Failure]]: The Red Nose Day sequel was made a year after Creator/AlanRickman's death. This also caused Creator/EmmaThompson to decline to participate, not wanting to do it without him.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is easy to date to the early 2000s. Primarily, Billy Mack's entire storyline is based around releasing a track and getting to the top of the Christmas Top 40 music charts (a very big deal in the British music business). The problem is that the next year, ''Series/TheXFactor'' started and between 2005 and 2008[[note]]and again in 2010 and 2013[[/note]], the winners of that show has always gotten the UK Number One. Also, it's from when Creator/AntAndDec were still working on children's television. Billy Mack's rival for Christmas Number One is BoyBand Blue who took a hiatus not long after this film. The American president is also a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed composite of UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefuNotes/GeorgeWBush. Additionally, the reference to the September 11th terrorist attacks in the opening narration seems more and more jarring as time goes on, especially to non-Brits who aren't familiar with the pop cultural references in the Billy Mack storyline.

* Love Actually is one of the [[https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-complete-list-of-movies-and-tv-shows-on-the-interna-1782918945 533 listed movies and Tv shows on board the International Space Station.]]

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and HarryPotter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nanny McPhee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Caribbean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nanny McPhee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Carribean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 Years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nancy McPhee), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Carribean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 Years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson (Taken), Creator/AlanRickman (Die Hard and Harry Potter Franchise), Creator/ColinFirth (Kingsman), Creator/HughGrant (Notting Hill), Creator/EmmaThompson (Nancy McPhee and Saving Mr. Banks), Creator/RowanAtkinson (Mr Bean) and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley (Pirates of The Carribean), Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (12 Years a Slave), Creator/MartinFreeman (The Hobbit Trilogy), and Creator/AndrewLincoln (The Walking Dead) after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today following the respective breakouts of Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, Creator/MartinFreeman, and Creator/AndrewLincoln after the film's release. Even the then-child actors in the PuppyLove pairing, Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Olivia Olsen, are actors and voice actors of some renown.

* Love Actually is one of the 533 listed movies and Tv shows on board the International Space Station.

* EditedForSyndication: In the version edited and broadcast in the U.S. on the ABC Family Channel, the entire subplot of John and Just Judy (the characters in the ersatz "porn" movie) was completely edited out, and, even with those and other cuts, this movie ran three hours with commercials.

** Curtis cast his daughter Scarlett in the film; she was given the choice of being an angel or a lobster, and played the part of Lobster number 2 in the nativity play, on the condition that she met Keira Knightley.[11]

* WorkingTitle: ''Love Actually is All Around''.

* RealitySubtext: Emma Thompson said that for her crysing scene she drew upon memories of discovering that her partner Creator/KennethBranagh was having an affair with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter. Ironically, the music playing in the scene "Both Sides Now", was later covered by Bonham Carter on the 2019 Children in Need album "Got it Covered."

* TheDanza: Creator/BillNighy playing Billy Mack.

* DeletedScene: Two additional scenarios were shot but were cut from the final version, with one involving the children's headmistress (played by Anne Reid) and her dying lesbian partner (played by Frances de la Tour).

* PlayingGertrude: Minor example. David is Karen's older brother. Emma Thompson is a year older than Hugh Grant.

** "Who's Bill Nighy? Is he famous in England or something?" Yes, a little, but this was the film that elevated him to national treasure status.

* RefittedForSequel: Colin's introduction scene was originally scripted for ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'' but cut from that and used here.

** Richard Curtis has said in a 2014 [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/06/richard-curtis-love-actually-a-catastrophe-film-hugh-grant interview]] that the editing process of the film was a "catastrophe" and that it was ChristmasRushed.

* RealLifeRelative: Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a second cousin to Hugh Grant. Richard Curtis was unaware of this until after they'd been cast.
* RealitySubtext: Emma Thompson said that for her crysing scene she drew upon memories of discovering that her partner Creator/KennethBranagh was having an affair with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter . Ironically, the music playing in the scene "Both Sides", was later covered by Bonham Carter on the 2019 Children in Need album "Got it Covered."

* ActorAllusion: David answers the phone to his sister by saying that he's "very busy and important", referencing a message Literature/BridgetJones sends to Daniel Cleaver. David and Daniel were both played by Creator/HughGrant.

* BillingDisplacement: Being an big ensemble film, inevitably ''some'' actors were going to get displaced but even so the film poster has a few good examples of this; Creator/KeiraKnightley is pictured and billed but Creator/AndrewLincoln (who shared all her scenes) isn't and Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster (who had more screentime than either) doesn't appear either. Kris Marshall and Lúcia Moniz are likewise absent despite starring in their own subplots while OneSceneWonder Creator/RowanAtkinson gets listed.

* RealLifeRelative: Thomas Brodie Sangster is a second cousin to Hugh Grant. Richard Curtis was unaware of this until after they'd been cast.

* AllStarCast: Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star-studded today with the elevation of Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, Creator/MartinFreeman and Creator/AndrewLincoln up the star charts. At the time the movie came out, Kris Marshall and Martin Freeman were both surprise breakout actors from BBC sitcoms, one would be practically forgotten about but one would star in some of the biggest film series in history.
** And what about Olivia Olsen more recently becoming a major star as [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime a certain Vampire Queen]]?

* BillingDisplacement: Being an big ensemble film, inevitably ''some'' actors were going to get displaced but even so the film poster has a few good examples of this; Creator/KeiraKnightley is pictured and billed but Creator/AndrewLincoln (who shared all her scenes) isn't and Thomas Sangster (who had more screentime than either) doesn't appear either. Kris Marshall and Lúcia Moniz are likewise absent despite starring in their own subplots while OneSceneWonder Creator/RowanAtkinson gets listed.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is easy to date to the early 2000s because of one of the plots. Billy Mack's entire storyline is based around releasing a track and getting to the top of the Christmas Top 40 music charts (a very big deal in the British music business). The problem is that the next year, ''Series/TheXFactor'' started and between 2005 and 2008[[note]]and again in 2010 and 2013[[/note]], the winners of that show has always gotten the UK Number One. Also, it's from when Creator/AntAndDec were still working on children's television. Billy Mack's rival for Christmas Number One is BoyBand Blue who took a hiatus not long after this film. The American president is also a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed composite of UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefuNotes/GeorgeWBush.

* RealLifeRelative: Thomas Brodie Sangster is a second cousin to Hugh Grant.