Few films get rewatched as often as the best Christmas movies, and one modern classic of the genre is the ensemble romance Love Actually. The movie is full of beautiful and heartbreaking stories, but at least one story of the film, while it had been confirmed by the filmmakers, had never been verified by the man who played the key role, Rowan Atkinson.
It’s been a long-held theory among fans of Love Actually that Rowan Atkinson’s character was more than just a man, but actually a supernatural force, a Christmas angel, who appears in the story in order to specifically influence events. In a recent appearance on BBC Two (via LADBible), Atkinson himself confirmed that was how his character was originally written, but also argued that just because the movie is missing the revelation of this fact, it doesn’t make it not true in the final cut. The actor said…
