Have you seen the tear-jerking Love Actually deleted lesbian scene with this Harry Potter star?

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15 Dec 2021, 14:32

Think you know this festive favourite inside out? Think again. An emotional scene featuring a lesbian couple living through a heartbreaking terminal cancer battle ended up on the cutting room floor.

The relationship between the strict headmistress played by Anne Reid and her dying partner Geraldine (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire's Frances de la Tour) was cut from the final edit. But footage shows them sharing wine and cuddles in a heartstring-pulling scene prior to Geraldine losing the harrowing fight.

In a further cut scene, Emma Thompson's character addresses the school crowds and says: “I’d just like to say to our headmistress, on behalf of all the parents, that we think it’s very brave her being here today in light of her recent loss.

“Geraldine was a wonderful and wicked woman, and sorrow is particularly hard at Christmas.”

Director Richard Curtis said previously of the cut: “I was really sorry to lose this. The idea was meant to be that you just casually meet this very stern headmistress, but later on in the film we suddenly fell in with her and you realise that, no matter how unlikely it seems, any character you come across in life has their own complicated tale of love.”

He added: “It jumps rather quickly at the end because you find out what’s happened to them in a bleak manner.”

Another deleted plot-line featured two mums in Kenya who 'disapproved of their daughters' fiancees'.

Curtis added: "There was a big story about a schoolgirl who fell in love with another schoolgirl.

"And then we zoomed into a photograph at Laura Linney’s charity and it turned out these two Kenyan women were talking about how they didn’t like their daughters’ fiancés. There were a lot of fallers."

Time to re-watch? Go on then.