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...EMMA THOMPSON: I think Hugh is quite hung over. [Grant, with a box of Advil, groans...
RICHARD: Talk about stupid things around your neck, what is that? [Thompson is wearing a fur collar...
...Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Having given them so many great lines, Curtis was able to assemble quite a constellation of stars for his directorial debut, Love Actually, which opens next week. In a web of interconnected love stories, Hugh Grant plays the Prime Minister, Emma Thompson his sister, Liam Neeson a widower with a stepson, and Colin Firth a writer who moves to France after his girlfriend cheats on him. Curtis and four of his stars sat down with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel in London to discuss love, Governor Schwarzenegger and Grant's inimitable dance moves...
HUGH: I agree, there's no nastiness, but there's some steel there in protecting his own material, rather like you on Sense and Sensibility [which Thompson wrote and Grant acted...
...other hand, several characters besides Linney's overly devoted sister do not get everything they want. For although Alan Rickman's emotionally constricted businessman does consummate his affair with his nastily manipulative secretary, it does not mean all ends well. Indeed, you could say the wife he betrays (Emma Thompson) carries the film's heaviest emotional weight. She's brave and--because Thompson is such a wise, fine actress--utterly winning in her devastation...