Richard Curtis, Actually

As the publicity machine for Love, Actually cranks into action, director Richard Curtis appeared yesterday on the BBC to talk about the production. Asked how he managed to deal with so many egos on one film, Curtis agrees that, 'Every attractive person in the country we've tried to drag in front of the camera,' but admits that things were made easier by the fact that the huge cast of stars only appear together once. 'They were very rarely together. And then all we had to do was give them biscuits. On the whole they're in pairs, so mainly I just had to deal with two a day. Given the huge success of songs used in his previous hits, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, the BBC were keen to find out what music will feature in this movie. As Curtis himself explains, 'Music is a really important linking device to keep the emotion going as you cut from tale to tale and show what unites the characters rather than what divides them... I'm very lucky in that movies are the second most interesting thing to me