what should happen in Richard Curtis’ sequel – WBNews

Mixed feelings are the only ones available on hearing that Richard Curtis is bringing out a bite-sized mini-sequel to 2003’s portmanteau romcom Love Actually, to mark this year’s Red Nose Day on 24 March. This featurette promises – or threatens – to bring us up to speed on what those adorably quirky lovestruck characters are up to now. This is for charity, and Red Nose Day is a thoroughly admirable institution in British public life, and Curtis deserves every plaudit for having invented it. But for most of the characters in Love Actually 2, the best case scenario would be that they all happened to be crammed onto the same hot air balloon that is struck by lightning over a desert, resulting in them falling through the air and all being impaled on the spines of the same giant cactus. © Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Taking over from Theresa … Hugh Grant in Love Actually. Horny Colin, played by Kris Marshall, who cops off with three gorgeous American girls on his trip to the US, is a candidate for the hot-air balloon tragedy, although I’d like to see Julia Davis, who was wasted on the tiny role of awful caterer in Colin’s story, brought back as a serial poisoner, perhaps married to Rowan Atkinson’s weirdo store assistant. Martin Freeman and Joanna Page, who met on a film set as body-doubles for a sex scene, could also frankly go on the hot air balloon, although their offspring could now be professional child actors…more detail