The Love Actually plotlines left on the cutting room floor: Christmas classic originally featured a lesbian couple and scenes shot in Kenya
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'Tis the season for all our favourite festive films to be playing back to back on the telly - and Love Actually, of course, always makes the cut. The 2003 feel-good flick, featuring separate stories that eventually come together and unite everyone during the holiday period, has long cemented its status as a Christmas classic.
![[Director Richard Curtis has spoken about making the choice to axe two scenes - one featuring a lesbian couple, and another which is set in Kenya - for both duration and because they simply 'didn't fit' the movie]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/10/16/93000625-14177713-Director_Richard_Curtis_has_spoken_about_making_the_choice_to_ax-m-13_1733846858552.jpg)
But while viewers may know all the subplots off by heart - from Colin Firth's romantic European getaway with Lúcia Moniz to Hugh Grant playing a Prime Minister that ends up trawling through houses so he could confess his love for Martine McCutcheon - there are some that never made the final cut.
![[In the short scenes, which have resurfaced some years ago - being shared by Fandango At Home on YouTube - the woman tells her sick partner about her day, but it's clear Geraldine is still optimistic despite her condition; that nature of which remains a mystery]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/10/16/93002565-14177713-In_the_short_scenes_which_have_resurfaced_some_years_ago_being_s-a-14_1733846887600.jpg)
Director Richard Curtis has spoken about making the choice to axe two scenes - one featuring a lesbian couple, and another which is set in Kenya - for both duration and because they simply 'didn't fit' the movie. One heartbreaking scene, which was lost, is between a stern headmistress, played by Anne Reid, who returned home from work to look after her terminally-ill partner Geraldine - actress Frances de la Tour.
![[Due to the cut, the final edit only features heterosexual romances. Pictured, scenes from the deleted moment]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/10/16/93002567-14177713-Due_to_the_cut_the_final_edit_only_features_heterosexual_romance-a-15_1733846893763.jpg)
The couple are linked to Emma Thompson's character Karen, whose son attended the school where Anne Reid's character worked. In the short scenes, which have resurfaced some years ago - being shared by Fandango At Home on YouTube - the woman tells her sick partner about her day, but it's clear Geraldine is still optimistic despite her condition; that nature of which remains a mystery.
![[A second scene, also shared by the channel, is set in Kenya and shows two women carrying heavy piles of sticks on their backs as they talk]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/10/16/93002571-14177713-A_second_scene_also_shared_by_the_channel_is_set_in_Kenya_and_sh-a-16_1733846896904.jpg)
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