Love Really followers shocked to find enormous age hole between two stars in movie

When it comes spherical to Christmas time there may be all the time a heated debate about what the very best festive movies of all time are.

Regardless of House Alone star Macaulay Culkin popping out swinging this yr, saying Die Arduous doesn’t depend, many within the UK wouldn’t even contemplate this to be the highest contender.

Probably the most beloved Christmas movie for many Brits, and lots of people in the USA too, is Love Really.

The Richard Curtis Christmas-set romance movie options a completely star-studded forged, that includes just a few names that appeared within the film earlier than they had been well-known.

This contains Keira Knightley, who seems in a storyline within the movie alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andrew Lincoln, in addition to a younger Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who stars in one of many sweetest plots from the movie alongside Liam Neeson.

The film follows eight totally different {couples}, all of whom encounter love in numerous methods within the lead-up to Christmas.

Keira Knightley’s character Juliet is married to Ejiofor’s Peter, however in probably the most iconic scene from the movie, Lincoln’s Mark confesses his like to her.

Brodie-Sangster’s Sam in the meantime falls in love together with his classmate in school, all of the whereas his step-dad Daniel, performed by Neeson, is making an attempt to attach with Sam after the dying of his spouse.

Now, based mostly on these two storylines, you’d clearly suppose that Brodie Sangster will need to have been a younger baby and that Knightley would have been a full-blown grownup, contemplating Juliet was getting married to a personality performed by a 26-year-old.

Nicely, many shall be stunned to listen to that the 2 of them are solely 5 years aside in age, a incontrovertible fact that blows the minds of followers yearly who watch the Christmas traditional.

Keira Knightley was simply 17 on the time of filming, while Brodie Sangster was 12, one thing made much more stunning by a side-by-side image of the 2.

One fan posted this element to Reddit, with one viral remark fairly merely summing up fan response, saying: “Hey what the f*ck?”

Others had been fast to level out that this was fairly easy, contemplating 17 and 12 is about as huge a 5 yr hole in puberty as you will get, however one fan made a startling realisation about why this was really vital.

They mentioned: “She was nearer in age to him than each the actor taking part in her husband and Rick Grimes holding the signal.”

The plotline involving Juliet being pursued by Mark, regardless of her being engaged to his finest good friend Peter, in secret is one which takes on a far creepier tone whenever you realise the age distinction between them.



While Knightley was 17, Ejiofor was 26 on the time of filming, and Lincoln was 30.

Talking in regards to the well-known cue card scene in an interview with TooFab, she mentioned: “I imply, there was a creep issue on the time, proper? Additionally, I knew I used to be 17.

“It solely looks as if just a few years in the past that everyone else realized I used to be 17.”

Richard Curtis has said in a earlier interview with LADbible that it ‘did not appear too peculiar’ on the time, however added: “I am actually concerned with whether or not or not I might suppose ‘do not try this’ now.

“And that really now we in all probability would not have gotten somebody as younger as Kiera was in.

“The nice factor now’s that everyone is daring sufficient to say something they do not notably like in what you do – form of provides you a filter nowadays.”