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One of the vital beloved trendy Christmas classics is popping 20 subsequent yr, and to mark the event, solid members from the landmark 2003 romantic comedy “Love Truly” are reuniting for a TV particular to air on ABC subsequent week, the community introduced Tuesday.
Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Invoice Nighy and Thomas Brodie-Sangster are collaborating within the particular, together with the movie’s writer-director Richard Curtis.
In a promotional clip shared by ABC program “20/20” on Twitter, Diane Sawyer asks the solid to fill within the sentence, “Love truly is…,” to which Grant drolly solutions, “Useless!”
In accordance with ABC, the particular will have a look at how the movie efficiently corralled a various ensemble to create an enthralling and winsome movie analyzing varied loving relationships throughout a frantic month main as much as Christmas in London, England, occurring to grow to be a beloved vacation custom world wide.
This system, which comes slightly early, contemplating the movie was launched on November 6, 2003, may also have a look at how the COVID-19 pandemic modified the methods folks work together, love and join, and the all-important want for kindness in households and communities.
The brand new reunion isn’t the primary time the actors from “Love Truly” – who additionally embrace Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson and Colin Firth – have come collectively once more.
In 2017, a brief sequel to the movie was produced for NBC in honor of Purple Nostril Day, a charity for youngsters in want created by Curtis.
“The Laughter & Secrets and techniques of ‘Love Truly’: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Particular” airs Nov. 29 at eight p.m. ET on ABC.