{"id":67697,"date":"2025-04-02T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=67697"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:45:53","slug":"hugh-grant-hated-filming-iconic-love-actually-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/hugh-grant-hated-filming-iconic-love-actually-scene\/67697\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant hated filming iconic Love Actually scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Love Actually<\/em> is filled with memorable moments, but one of its most talked-about scenes was actually a nightmare for Hugh Grant to film. The famous dance scene\u2014where Grant\u2019s character, Prime Minister David, grooves through 10 Downing Street\u2014might be iconic now, but he dreaded every second of it.<\/p>\n<p>In a reunion special, Grant admitted, \u201cI saw it in the script and I thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019ll hate doing that\u2019\u2026 I didn\u2019t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.\u201d Director Richard Curtis joked there was a \u201ccontractual guillotine\u201d if Grant refused, and Grant went along with it, albeit reluctantly. \u201cI\u2019m out of rhythm by the way, especially at the beginning when I wriggle my arse,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his discomfort, Grant claimed one of the scene\u2019s funniest moments as his own idea\u2014when a staffer catches him mid-dance. \u201cGenius,\u201d he said, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Even years later, Grant remains torn on the scene\u2019s legacy. \u201cTo this day, there\u2019s many people\u2014and I agree with them\u2014who think it\u2019s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid. But then some people like it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Actually is filled with memorable moments, but one of its most talked-about scenes was actually a nightmare for Hugh\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":67698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6974],"class_list":["post-67697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-hugh-grant"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}