“All I Want For Christmas Is You” helped Curtis finish the screenplay.
Mark and Juliet’s kiss was shot in one take.
“We only had one take of that, because we ran out of time that day.
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“It was like we promised we’d leave at 10 o’clock, and it was 10:20.
So I think we literally did one take of that scene before we were thrown out by the police…
It was because the cards had taken so long.
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That was the reason that we were in trouble.”
Sam’s backstory is even more tragic than you think.
“Oh, I don’t even know if I know the answer to that.
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Let’s presume he’s dead,” declares Curtis.
“They’re a very unlucky family, aren’t they?
First the dad dies then the mother dies.
I think we better presume he’s dead.”
Billy Mack’s platonic romance is based on a real-life friendship.
“That story is in a way based on my life withRowan Atkinson,” Curtis says of theMr.
Beanactor, who plays averythorough department-store clerk.
Because it’s that weird thing, isn’t it?
Not that Rowan’s ghastly!”
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