Maybe I’ve been living under a Christmas rock, but I did not know this deleted scene from Love Actually existed until YouTube served it up on my homepage this morning.
THERE WAS ALMOST A LESBIAN COUPLE IN LOVE ACTUALLY!
The deleted scene fits a whole movie’s worth of love, devotion, humor, and unbearable sadness in THREE MINUTES. And it centers around a longterm gay couple, which in 2003 when the movie came out, would’ve been quite a statement, seeing as gay marriage wasn’t legalized in Britain until over TEN YEARS later. (Can you feel me rolling my eyes?)
Here’s the scene if you want to watch it. Yes, that is Hagrid’s girlfriend and yes, it is a tearjerker — you’ve been warned.
Should we just redo all of Love Actually?
One commenter suggested we cut all of Colin’s desperate American boning expedition to make room for this scene, and I’m all for it.