'The film is a mess – I've always hated it': How Love Actually ruined Christmas
Bill Nighy as Billy Mack in Love Actually Credit: Peter Mountain It regularly tops the nation’s favourite Christmas movie polls. It’s packed with some of the country’s most adored actors – Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley – all falling in love with each other in a winding series of interconnected stories, rolled out in scenes that have become iconic. So why have I always hated Love Actually? During lockdown, my publisher finally gave me the green light to explain and explore my problems with it in a book. And now, having examined the film afresh, do you kno...