Christmas Cracker – Love Actually

Our Christmas Cracker facts today are all about Richard Curtis’s festive Love Actually…

Claudia Schiffer was paid a reported £200,000 for her cameo in the film.

Jim Henson’s funeral inspired the wedding scene (where members of the congregation begin to play The Beatles’s ‘All You Need is Love’). Crew members behind Muppet classics produced the famous puppets at his funeral to sing him off.

The lake into which Aurelia dives in order to save Jamie (Colin Firth)’s novel was in fact a mere 18 inches deep. Due to this the actors had to kneel and give the impression of a much deeper lake.