"It's the most atrocious scene in the seventh art": Hugh Grant reveals that he hated performing the dance in Love Actually

It's one of the most famous scenes in romantic comedies, and one of the audience's favourites.

However, the actor who interprets it is not of the same opinion.

"I had no desire to perform this dance at all, even less to repeat it", revealed Hugh Grant, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of

(2003), during the show "The Laughter & Secrets of

: 20 Years Later” on November 25.

"To this day, there are a lot of people - and I agree with them - who think this is the most atrocious scene in the cinema," he joked.

"But there are others who like it."

Worship minute

In this cult scene, the then 43-year-old actor begins to wiggle his hips to the

Pointer Sisters' hit

From his room at 10 Downing Street (

), the character, believing himself alone, then runs down the stairs dancing and enters the living room, where he comes across his secretary.

Both embarrassed, they casually strike up a conversation.

Hugh Grant says today that it was he who had the idea of ​​​​this interruption, in order to shorten the scene.

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The actor spoke to journalist Diane Sawyer in a one-hour special dedicated to the film, which will be broadcast on the ABC channel on November 28 at 8 p.m., and will be available on the Hulu platform the following day.

“I read it in the script and I thought I was going to hate doing that,” the 62-year-old actor recalls of the famous sequence.

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“Contract Guillotine”

Richard Curtis, who directed and wrote the screenplay for

, recalled that "[Hugh Grant] kept saying no."

He added, "I think he was hoping that I would get sick or something and we'd be like, 'Oh, well, what a shame, we're gonna have to scrap that dance sequence.'" When the fateful day arrived, the actor was well and truly 'grumpy', but had no choice but to do the scene, it being 'a contractual obligation.

' 'A contractual guillotine' retorted Hugh Grant. And besides, I'm not in rhythm, "he lamented. "Especially at the beginning when I move my butt."

The director, on the other hand, was over the moon.

And added, a bit cynical: “It's terribly embarrassing.

He is simply perfect".

More seriously, Richard Curtis expressed his gratitude to the actor, a real “stroke of luck” for his career.

"I don't even know if I would have had a film career without Hugh, so I'm very grateful."

Indeed, the romantic comedies

(1994),

(1999),

(2001) and its sequel,

(2004), all signed by the screenwriter, share a common interpreter: Hugh Grant.

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