Emma Thompson has admitted she's still deeply moved by a certain Love Actually scene, 20 years after the beloved Christmas movie was released.
In the Richard Curtis flick, which celebrates its 20 year anniversary this year, Emma plays a mother-of-two who has her worst fears about her husband confirmed when she inadvertently uncovers his feelings for his younger co-worker.
In one heartbreaking scene, Emma's character sobs alone in her bedroom after discovering a necklace her hubby brought for Christmas was actually gifted to the other woman.
Emma, now 68, said the scene still upsets her to this day because she was drawing on her own experience of heartache and betrayal on set.
"You remember the feelings you had at the time," she admitted.
Emma has previously revealed she re-lived her feelings of abandonment from when her first husband Kenneth Branagh was found to be having an affair to get into character.
Kenneth and Emma split after eight years together when he had an affair with Helena Bonham Carter.
"That scene where my character is standing by the bed crying is so well known because it's something everyone's been through', she told Stella magazine.
"I had my heart very badly broken by Ken. So I knew what it was like to find the necklace that wasn't meant for me.
"Well it wasn't exactly that, but we've all been through it," she said.
To celebrate the film's 20th anniversary, Emma took part in a TV special in the US alongside Hugh Grant and Bill Nighy to discuss the making of the movie.
In the one-off episode The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later, Hugh awkwardly described his famous dance scene as 'the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid.
Speaking to ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, Grant admitted that “some people like (the scene)”. He said: "I think I saw it in the script and thought ‘I’ll hate doing that’. No Englishman can dance when they’re sober at 8am in the morning.
“And to this day, you know, there’s many people, and I agree with them, and we think it’s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid."
While Richard Curtis also shared his embarrassment with the film as he said he 'feels stupid' about the lack of diversity in the 2003 hit.
"There are things that you would change, but thank God society is changing," said Curtis.
"My film is bound in some moments to feel out of date," he said. "The lack of diversity makes me feel uncomfortable and a bit stupid.
"There is such extraordinary love that goes on every minute in so many ways [in life generally], all the way around the world, and makes me wish my film was better.
"It makes me wish I'd made a documentary just to kind of observe it."
He later added how films, when done well, can "act as a reminder of how lovely things can be and how there are all sorts of things which we might pass by, which are in fact the best moments in our lives".
