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10 ways Love Actually would be different today

10 ways Love Actually would be different today

Love Actually is 18 years old. Eighteen years old! In that time we've seen the kid Sam grow up to star in Game Of Thrones, Hugh Grant stop flipping his hair about on screen to be a lot more serious and involved in press enquiries, and most importantly, the evolution of the saucy hashtag. Here's how Love Actually would be different if it was made today:

1. Creepy Mark would have saved himself a trip in the cold and sent his declarations of love to Keira Knightley via SnapChat.

2. Oh and Keira Knightley probably wouldn't have kissed him after it all because hey, she's married to his best mate and HEY this is a little weird actually.

3. Speaking of, Keira Knightley wouldn't have had to chase up the creepy wedding video anyway as it would have been all over Facebook and Instagram before her wedding day was over and she probably has more memories of watching the videos than she does of actually experiencing it all IRL.

4. Professor Snape and Mia's affair would never have happened. She would definitely have satisfied herself via someone she met on Tinder.

5. Colin Firth and Aurelia would have had awkward conversations through Google Translate and Whatsapp, realised they had nothing in common, and he was a cheapskate and the whole plot around them is a little creepy (see when Aurelia's dad tries to SELL HER SISTER to Colin Firth, before Aurelia agrees to marry him anyway even though they have yet to have a full conversation).

6. A vile and offensive Twitter STORM would have followed the Prime Minister being caught snogging Tiffany off EastEnders at a school play. The yummy-mummies in the crowd would have got #ThighsLikeBigTreeTrunks trending within a matter of minutes (because everyone in this film seems to be clinically blind and think that this woman is fat WTF). The videos would be played around the world for a week, he'd flee the country and she'd hole herself up with her parents.

7. Also, firing someone because she's so beautiful you may or may not be able to resist temptation? TRIBUNAL.

Photo credit: Love Actually
Photo credit: Love Actually

8. Those porn stars would have shagged IRL a LONG time ago, and the awkward chat wouldn't be because they're trying to ask each other on a date, but because they now can't look each other in the eye because he said something about his mother when he came. Twice. Actually that probably would have been the situation 15 years ago too, but rom coms generally lie.

9. Colin would NOT have been able to trot off to America and find himself strewn with women, because he generally seems like an asshole. He just would not.

Photo credit: Universal
Photo credit: Universal

10. It would be called Love Obvs.

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