Lesbian Love Actually - Watch the TEAR-JERKING deleted LESBIAN scenes from Love Actually

Keira Knightley in Love Actually

LOVE ACTUALLY once included a HEARTBREAKING deleted lesbian story. No, not with Keira Knightley but with two screen legends. Watch it here with a big box of hankies.

Love Actually has become a cosy Christmas movie staple since its release in 2003.

But did you know that its famously tangled interconnecting couples once featured a lesbian love story?

Director Richard Curtis has revealed the long lost deleted scenes and his upset at cutting them.

Watch the full scenes featuring Anne Reid and Frances de la Tour, plus Curtis' introduction right here.

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"I was really sorry to lose this bit," Curtis admits.

In the scenes, Anne Reid plays the rather frosty headmistress of the school attended by the children of Emma Thompson's character, Karen.

"The idea was meant to be you just casually met this very sort of stern headmistress," Curtis explains.

"The idea was meant to be that, later on in the film, we suddenly fell in with the headmistress and you realise that no matter how unlikely it seems, that any character you come across in life has their own complicated tale of love."

 

The first of three scenes shows Reid's headmistress coming home to her partner, Geraldine, played by Frances de la Tour.

Geraldine is clearly very ill but played with typically infectious energy and charm by de la Tour.

As the scenes progress it's obvious that we are heading for a heartbreaking end.

The second scene shows Geraldine coughing in bed before being comforted by the her pertner.

 

Anne Reid and Frances de la Tour in the deleted scene

 

Richard Curtis says that he was sad to lose these scenes

The final scene is the real tear-jerker, played beautifully by Thompson and Reid.

Thompson's character Karen announces to the entire school that Geraldine had passed away.

Curtis explained that the scenes no longer made sense because the linking subplot featuring Thompson's son at the school had also been dropped.

The director accepts that the scenes jump a little abruptly to the news of Geraldine's death.

"I thought that it was worth you seeing the fullness of it," he says. "Even if it's slightly clumsy towards the end."

Andrew Lincoln in Love Actually

Love Actually was a huge hit at the UK box office in 2003.

Its all-star cast also included Colin Firth, Keira Knighley, Liam Neeson and Hugh Grant.

Perhaps the most famous scene of all is the classic, but excrutiating, moment when Andrew Lincoln's Mark finally tells Knightley's Juliet how he really feels about her.

On giant cue cards, as you do.

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It's the scene that inspired a thousand spoofs - and some notable real-life wedding proposals.

As for the deleted scenes, they are more timely than ever.

New film, Carol, roars into cinemas this weekend, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in a sweeping gay romance.

The 1950s lesbian love story has been attracted enormous critical praise and early Oscar buzz.

And you won't need quite so many tissues for this one...