The Christmas period has been and gone, but that doesn't mean we still can't watch our favourite Christmas film,Love Actually. The film is set in the streets of London during the Christmas time and tells multiple stories featuring a lot of largely talented cast members including some notable names such as the beloved Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, and everyone's favourite zombie-hunter, Andrew Lincoln.
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Among the many characters in this feature film is Juliet, who finds out that her new husband’s best friend is in love with her. And we all remember Sam, the young boy who lives with his step-dad after his mother died and asks him for advice on how to make a girl at school fall in love with him.
Juliet is played by Keira Knightley, whilst Thomas Brodie-Sangster takes on the role of Sam. Although the two characters are both in quite different stages of their respective lives, the actors became stars only 5 years apart.
Yearly reminder that there is only a five year age gap between Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Keira Knightley in Love Actually pic.twitter.com/ciC4v75ZPO
— Madeleine Lloyd-Jones (@madelexne) December 14, 2019
As it turns out, Keira Knightley was just 18 years old while they were filming this movie and Thomas Brodie-Sangster was 13. Internet users were quite surprised to learn this little fact about the film.
The actors played two widely different roles. Keira, who played Juliet, a young, newly married woman and Thomas, who played Sam a prepubescent young boy who found love for the first time.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster just a few years ago starred in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the last episode in this trilogy. As for Keira Knightley, she's starred in a few films released recently like Berlin, I Love You and The Aftermath.
