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LOVE ACTUALLY 20 YEARS LATER

News anchor Diane Sawyer, 76, will host the prime-time special,

Love Actually: 20 Years Later (Nov. 29 on ABC) to mark the anniversary of the making of the holiday classic, which follows the love lives of eight couples during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

The film starred Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura

Linney Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Free

man, Martine Mccutcheon,

Lucia Moniz and Andrew Lincoln.

This isn’t the first Love Actually reunion show. In 2017, several of the cast got together for the mini-sequel

Red Nose Day Actually, part of a Red Nose Day fundraising event. The surprise in that reunion? Laura Linney’s character Sarah was happily married to a man played by Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Lin-lincoln’s Mark married his crush, model Kate Moss.

Check out these behind-thescenes fun facts about the film. Love

Actually is currently available on Showtime.

To add a nice touch of authenticity, Andrew Lincoln handwrote the cards on which his character Mark reveals to Juliet that he loves her. Lincoln went on to play Rick Grimes in 125 episodes of The Walking Dead.

Billy Bob Thornton accepted his role as the U.S. president in the film without ever reading the script because he was so flattered by the letter asking him to be part of the ensemble.

The idea of the band popping up and playing and singing “All You Need Is Love” at Peter and Juliet’s wedding was inspired by Jim Henson’s funeral at which all of the puppeteers brought their Muppets and sang a song.

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