An completely wild deleted scene from beloved vacation movie Love Actually is doing the rounds on social media this week, and it must be seen to be believed.
The scene, which first surfaced in 2013, is an prolonged model of the second lovesick Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), the son of Liam Neeson’s character, runs by means of Heathrow Airport to inform Joanna (Olivia Olson) he loves her, evading safety like a professional.
While within the movie, 11-year-old Sam managing to lose the grownup safety guards is spectacular sufficient, within the unique model, Sam’s airport sprint truly featured a collection of difficult gymnastic strikes and thrives as he wove his approach by means of the crowds.
It additionally included some fairly unbelievable physique doubles.
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It seems Sam’s gymnastic talents have been a central a part of his story within the unique draft of the movie, however director Richard Curtis determined to scrap it.
“We were a bit torn whether or not to put [the scene] in because there would have been sort of effects and polish done on it, but we didn’t and I think it’s fun,” Curtis stated within the director’s commentary.
“In the original draft of the movie there were lots of mentions about the fact that Sam, the little boy, was a brilliant gymnast and you casually saw him when he was very sad doing double twists and turns and not getting any joy out of it at all.”
He added that the deleted scene was a “very rough edit”.
“So when it came to the airport … he brought his gymnastic prowess into play and this is a very rough edit of how he would have been the Nadia Comăneci [or] Olga Korbut of the movie.
The scene, and the thought of glum little Sam doing Olympic-level gymnastics throughout the film, has tickled fans of the Christmas favourite.
On Twitter, they’ve been collectively shocked by what could have been.
One more simply wrote of the insane footage: “Delete it again.”
Last week, The Laughter and Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later, a TV particular celebrating twenty years for the reason that movie’s launch, uncovered a number of behind-the-scenes titbits from filming.
Among the revelations, actor Hugh Grant revealed his most loathed scene was his notorious Downing Street dance sequence.
Elsewhere, director Curtis shared that Keira Knightley was satisfied the movie would wreck her profession. Instead, it did fairly the other.
