Trivia / Last Christmas

• Awesome, Dear Boy:
  • Michelle Yeoh was nervous about doing a comedic role, but wanted to work with Paul Feig and Emma Thompson.
  • Paul Feig almost passed on the film, citing his last Christmas film, Unaccompanied Minors, which became a critical and financial failure, but ultimately agreed to direct because he got to work with Emma Thompson.
• The Cast Show Off: Turns out, Emilia Clarke has quite the lovely singing voice.
• The Danza: Fabien Frankel has a minor role as Fabien.
• Fake Nationality: British actors Emilia Clarke (Kate), Emma Thompson (Petra), Lydia Leonard (Marta) and Serbian actor Boris Isakovic (Ivan) play Croatians who have lived in the UK since leaving Yugoslavia, following The Yugoslav Wars. While Isakovic did not have to hide his accent, Thompson put up a foreign accent to do the role.
• International Coproduction: Between Universal (US), Feigco Entertainment (US), Calamity Films (UK), Perfect World Pictures (China), and Toho (Japan). Strangely, Toho did not distribute the film in Japan, despite coproducing it and distributing most of Universal's films there, instead going to a different distributor.
• Lying Creator: Henry Golding had to lie quite a bit to keep The Reveal hidden.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: A justified example for both Kate and Marta, due to the fact they lived most of their lives in the UK, having moved there when their family left Yugoslavia, following The Yugoslav Wars.
• Reality Subtext: Like Kate in the movie, Emilia Clarke has also had near-fatal health problems that necessitated urgent life-saving surgery in the past.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: Emilia Clarke is usually known for her long dark hair. However, she had to cut her hair short after it got damaged as a result of her decision to dye it platinum blonde for the final season of Game of Thrones (she wore a wig for the previous seasons). Her short blond hair ended up being written into the film, as an Expository Hairstyle Change for Katarina.

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