The actor revealed that dancing to “Jump” on “Love Actually” was one of the worst moments of his career. For the British, it was very tedious to practice and film the scene in question that, to this day, he has a hard time watching.
Some scenes remain in the retina of all viewers, although the actors who have starred in them do not agree as much, as has happened to Hugh Grant with a specific moment in "Love Actually" that, even 19 years after its premiere, still hating.
The actor, who gave life to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, takes one of the most memorable scenes from the film by dancing, around Downing Street, “Jump (For My Love)” by The Pointer Sisters as if nobody was watching.
“I saw it in the script and I thought, 'Well, I'm going to hate doing this.' I didn't feel like doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it... And, today, there are many people, and I agree with them, who think it's the most unbearable scene ever made on celluloid. But some people like it,” he said.
Hugh Grant's statement was given in "The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later", a special prepared by ABC News to celebrate one of the great Christmas films of all time, which will be 20 years old on December 11.
The Briton also expressed that he could not keep up with the music due to his problem with the scene and that the only way he could shoot it was when Richard Curtis, the film's director, offered to let his secretary Natalie (Martine McCutcheon) at the time when the dance was in full swing.
The director confirmed the actor's statements and confessed that, even minutes before starting the scene, "he kept saying no" but that the creative team of the film believed that it was a great moment for the character as it finally was.
