Hugh Grant Once Asked Emma Thompson If This Classic Film Was the 'Most Psychotic Thing' They Ever Made Victoria EdelDecember 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM 0 PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Hugh Grant (left) and Emma Thompson on 'The Graham Norton Show' Emma Thompson opened up about which movie with Hugh Grant he called their 'most psychotic' Thompson said she's working with Grant more than any other actor, including in Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and The Remains of the Day Thompson said time has shown Grant's comment missed the mark Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson have made a lot of movies together,...
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Victoria EdelDecember 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Hugh Grant (left) and Emma Thompson on 'The Graham Norton Show' -
Emma Thompson opened up about which movie with Hugh Grant he called their 'most psychotic'
Thompson said she's working with Grant more than any other actor, including in Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and The Remains of the Day
Thompson said time has shown Grant's comment missed the mark
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson have made a lot of movies together, but there's one that Grant thought might be their "most psychotic."
Thompson, 66, opened up about her career in a video for GQ, published Dec. 9. In it, she looked back at Love Actually, the 2003 holiday ensemble film directed by Richard Curtis. Thompson played Karen, who's married to Alan Rickman's Harry. She's also the sister of Grant's David, the new British Prime Minister.
"It's the ultimate ensemble, isn't it?" the Oscar winner said of the movie. "We did sort of get flung into our pieces, one by one."
Then she remembered the conversation she had with Grant, 65, about it. "I do remember opening it in New York, and I'd just done Wit with Mike Nichols, which is not a romcom at all, and something very serious, you know, and sad," she said. In that film, Thompson plays a woman battling ovarian cancer.
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From left: Martine McCutcheon, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson in 'Love Actually'
"And I went to the opening of that and then the opening of Love Actually, and Hugh Grant came up behind me and said, 'Is that the most psychotic thing we've ever made?' " Thompson remembered and laughed. "And I said, 'Well, you know, time will tell. Time will tell.' "
She admitted, "And time has told. It holds up because it's so full of Richard's deep love for humanity." Though often debated, Love Actually has remained for many people a yearly Christmas watch, though Grant has admitted he doesn't know why it's "so popular."
Thompson told GQ that she "worked it out" and thinks she's starred in more things with Grant than anyone else. "He's been my brother, my lover, my sort of husband person, somebody I've served as a servant in The Remains of the Day," she said. "We've done so many things together. . . . And it's always been a completely different relationship." In 1995's Sense and Sensibility, they played lovers. They both also appeared in 2025's Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Thompson also opened up about one of her biggest scenes in Love Actually: when Karen realizes her husband bought jewelry for another woman and gives her just a Joni Mitchell CD. She hides her heartbreak, trying not to ruin the holiday.
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Hugh Grant (left) and Emma Thompson in 'Sense and Sensibility'
"It was easy really to do," she admitted. "I knew what being heartbroken felt like. So, it wasn't difficult." She said they did "four or five" takes and that Curtis was "sniveling in the corner" the whole time, which was "very funny."
"It was just that thing of that I so understand of people crying and then but not wanting to cry and then having to cover it up," she said. She added that there's "no woman that doesn't know what that's like, especially if they've got kids."
Back in 2022, Thompson admitted she is not one of the people who rewatches Love Actually.
"No, it was 20 years ago," she told Jimmy Fallon when he askled about it during an episode of The Tonight Show. The host asked if it was fun to look back and reminisce, but she joked, "Not really. No, you're just saying, 'I don't think I was very well paid for that. That was that terrible trailer with the loo that really stank and had that sort of....' That's the things you remember, not the good ones."
She also confirmed that countless fans have sent her Mitchell CDs. "I have a separate house for those," she joked.
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Published: December 31, 2025 at 12:36AM on Source: ANDY MAG
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