Love Actually's 'Christmas lobster' looks unrecognisable with bleach blonde hair and piercings as she ditches acting for comedy 18 years after Christmas flick debut
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It has been nearly two decades since the iconic Christmas hit Love Actually hit UK screens. And as the film reaches 18 years one of its sweetest characters, Emma Thompson's daughter who played the lobster in the school nativity play, now looks completely unrecognisable.
![[Lulu Popplewell played Emma Thompson's onscreen daughter and is now 33 (pictured in the movie)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/19/34443424-8844893-image-a-37_1602787127650.jpg)
The part was played by actress turned comedienne, Lulu Popplewell, 33, and she now looks worlds away from how she was remembered in the 2003 Christmas flick. Long gone are her long brunette locks as she now rocks a bleach blonde shaggy bob and at one point a nose piercing.
![[The part was played by actress turned comedienne, Lulu Popplewell, 33, and she now looks worlds away from who she was remembered in the 2003 Christmas flick]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/15/93277777-14205923-The_part_was_played_by_actress_turned_comedienne_Lulu_Popplewell-a-23_1734534143915.jpg)
Lulu was aged just 12 when she portrayed Daisy, who was daughter of Emma and Alan Rickman. The performer is currently preparing for a show at London's Museum of Comedy, titled Goblin and stars in Come To Bed With Me podcast. Love Actually's 'Christmas lobster' looks unrecognisable these days with bleach blonde hair and piercings as she ditches acting for comedy 18 years after Christmas flick debut.
![[Long gone are her long brunette locks as she now rocks a bleach blonde shaggy bob and at one point a nose piercing]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/15/93277781-14205923-Long_gone_are_her_long_brunette_locks_as_she_now_rocks_a_bleach_-a-25_1734534384361.jpg)
Lulu Popplewell played Emma Thompson's onscreen daughter and is now 33 (pictured in the movie). She has also voiced the part of Lyra in the BBC Radio 4 version of His Dark Materials. And while one of her main breakthroughs into showbiz was through Love Actually, Lulu previously slammed the hit movie for being 'cheesy' and showing women as 'passive objects'.
![[And while one of her main break throughs into showbiz was through Love Actually, Lulu previously slammed the hit movie for being 'cheesy' and showing women as 'passive objects' (pictured in 2020)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/19/34443460-8844893-image-a-44_1602787392423.jpg)
She made the comments during an appearance on podcast Almost Famous, adding that she thinks the classic Christmas flick is a 's**t film'. Speaking about her experience doing the film when she was 12-years-old, Lulu said: 'I don't regret it at all. Look, softly be it spoken I think it's a s**t film.
![[She made the comments during an appearance on podcast Almost Famous , adding that she thinks the classic Christmas flick is a 's**t film' (pictured on the Comedy Arcade Podcast)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/22/34419712-8844893-Lulu_Popplewell_29_told_the_Almost_Famous_podcast_she_thinks_the-a-9_1602797308791.jpg)
