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# Lesbian love scenes cut from Love Actually resurface 20 years later
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lesbian-love-scenes-from-love-actually-resurface-20-years-later/
- Published: 2023-11-15T11:32:50.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-15T11:33:25.000Z
- Description: Christmas rom com Love Actually turns 20 this year – and we feel ancient! Writer and director Richard Curtis has described in a DVD that a lesbian love story woven into the story had to be cut from the final version when an element in another story was changed. The plot involved Anne Reid, the […]
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Lesbian

Christmas rom com ***Love Actually*** turns 20 this year – and we feel ancient!

Writer and director **Richard Curtis** has described in a DVD that a lesbian love story woven into the story had to be cut from the final version when an element in another story was changed. The plot involved **Anne Reid**, the ‘scary’ headmistress of the school featured in the film and a lesbian whose lover, played by **Frances de la Tour**, was terminally ill.

In an interview with *[The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/frances-de-la-tour-love-actually-b2167653.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk)* from September 2022, de la Tour recalled her deleted scene. “We had a lovely scene,” she told the publication. “And I think it was the only gay scene. It’s odd that they cut it. Maybe it was too dark to bring into it. Because it ended up being quite a light and fluffy film, didn’t it?”

Richard Curtis reportedly wrote a note to de la Tour and apologised for the scene being cut from the film. “We’re terribly sorry, but it’s got to be cut,” Curtis told de la Tour.