{"id":1752484,"date":"2022-11-27T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752484"},"modified":"2022-11-27T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:03:56","slug":"hugh-grant-opens-up-about-how-he-hated-filming-his-iconic-love-actually-dance-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-grant-opens-up-about-how-he-hated-filming-his-iconic-love-actually-dance-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant Opens Up About How He Hated Filming His Iconic \u201cLove Actually\u201d Dance Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhugh-grant-opens-up-about-how-he-hated-filming-his-iconic-love-actually-dance-scene%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Hugh Grant admitted that he hated filming his iconic dance scene in the classic 2003 holiday movie &#8220;Love Actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/hugh-grant-coronavirus-symptoms-eyeballs-too-big\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">62-year-old actor <\/a>told Diane Sawyer that he instantly disliked the scene, in which his prime minister character David dances exuberantly around 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters\u2019 &#8220;Jump (For My Love).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw it in the script and I thought, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;ll hate doing that,&#8217; &#8221; he said in a clip from the upcoming ABC News special &#8220;The Laughter &#038; Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later&#8221; via People magazine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/640\/320\/Hugh-Grant.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Hugh Grant admitted that he hated filming his iconic \" Love Actually \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Hugh Grant admitted that he hated filming his iconic &#8220;Love Actually&#8221; dance scene in a clip from the upcoming ABC News special &#8220;The Laughter &#038; Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Tommaso Boddi\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grant continued, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/hugh-grant-opinion-megxit-meghan-markle-prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>HUGH GRANT WEIGHS IN ON MEGXIT: &#8216;I&#8217;M RATHER ON HARRY&#8217;S SIDE&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He kept saying no,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/love-actually-fans-spot-glaring-error-and-it-could-ruin-one-of-your-favorite-scenes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Love Actually&#8221;<\/a> director and screenwriter Richard Curtis recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;I think he was hoping I&#8217;d get ill or something and we&#8217;d say, &#8216;Oh, well, what a shame, we&#8217;ll have to lose that dancing sequence.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Curtis told Sawyer that Grant was &#8220;grumpy&#8221; on the day of the shoot but the Golden Globe Award winner &#8220;knew it was a contractual obligation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a contractual guillotine coming down?&#8221; Sawyer, 76, asked Grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, a contractual guillotine,&#8221; he agreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m out of rhythm, by the way, especially at the beginning when I wiggle my a**,&#8221; Grant added.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer asked Curtis how he felt when Grant finally filmed the scene. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking, oh, good, he&#8217;s doing it. And two, that&#8217;s agonizingly embarrassing,&#8221; the filmmaker remembered. &#8220;He was just perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/GettyImages-92340624.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"The one-hour special will commemorate the beloved holiday film&#039;s 20th anniversary.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The one-hour special will commemorate the beloved holiday film&#8217;s 20th anniversary.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Jun Sato\/WireImage)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grant took credit for coming up with the scene&#8217;s hilariously awkward conclusion in which David&#8217;s secretary walks in on him while he&#8217;s strutting his stuff. &#8220;It was my idea to have that secretary lady catch me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And to this day, there&#8217;s many people \u2014 and I agree with them \u2014 who think it&#8217;s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid,&#8221; the &#8220;Bridget Jones Diary&#8221; star joked. &#8220;But then some people like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming one-hour special will commemorate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/special\/occasions\/christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beloved holiday<\/a> film&#8217;s 20th anniversary. \u00a0&#8220;The Laughter &#038; Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later \u2013 A Diane Sawyer Special&#8221; will air at 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 29 on ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Grant admitted that he hated filming his iconic dance scene in the classic 2003 holiday movie &#8220;Love Actually.&#8221;The 62-year-old actor told Diane Sawyer that he instantly disliked the scene,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}