If Love Actually was made today, this is what the casting director would change

Boasting an all-star cast and directed by rom-com legend Richard Curtis, the 2003 film remains a festive staple all these years later.

From Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman to Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Love Actually’s cast is a who’s who of British actors.

It was also famous with Hugh Grant as the newly elected Prime Minister, although that would certainly not be the case today, according to Weir.

“The first thing is that I wanted to cast a female prime minister,” the casting director previously told me Metro.co.uk when asked which stars she would cast now to reflect the changes we’ve seen in the past two decades since the film was released.

“I think if we did it today, Richard would write it very differently,” she told the publication in an interview celebrating the film’s 20th anniversary last year. “20 years later, it’s a different country, it’s a different world – a lot has changed.”

Weir continued: “So, I think it’s going to be a very different script, you can’t really cast actors for it. But the one thing I can state is that we would definitely cast a female prime minister.”

She even suggested an actress she could see in the role: Adjoa Andoh.

Still, it’s hard to imagine Love Actually without Grant’s self-effacing Prime Minister delivering his iconic dance routine to The Pointer Sisters’ Jump (For My Love).

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