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Waltham Forest Council officials recreate iconic Love Actually dance scene in hilarious video
A local council in London hilariously recreated Hugh Grants iconic dance scene from Love Actually.�
The outcome is just as awkward and hilarious as the original. London borough Waltham Forest shared the video to the official council TikTok on November 21.
Waltham Forest Council’s hilarious Love Actually parody
The hilarious video sees a local council member take on an unforgettable scene from the Haringey Town Hall, utilizing the stairs exactly how they should be.
Us: Wouldnt Love Actually be better if it was about a council in North East London, reads the on-screen text.�
To the tune of Jump by The Pointer Sisters, the council worker was filmed starting by the window before slowly getting into the groove of the dance. Within moments, he was full Hugh Grant, dancing backward across the hall and onto the stairs.
Just like the movie, he was also intruded on by another worker – killing the joy of his dance moment.�
TikTok has been loving the Love Actually remake
In just three days, the video has amassed over 200,000 views with viewers sharing their joy at the hilarious scene.
Those Town Hall stairs are 100 percent made for this choreo, joked one user.
Why do I want to see the CCTV footage of you doing this, added another.
I was worried about the lack of commitment at the start, but it turned out good, reads one comment.
Telling my kids that this is the scene from Love Actually, noted an entertained viewer.�
Hugh Grant actually hated the original scene
The moment might be so loved that London councils are recreating it 20 years later, but the actor himself wasnt actually a fan of it.
Hugh Grant told Diane Sawyer in the ABC News special on the film: I saw it in the script and i thought, Well, Ill hate doing that. I didnt fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.
And to this day, theres many people, and I agree with them, who think its the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid. But then some people like it, he added.
Richard Curtis even said the actor kept saying no to filming the dance and was grumpy during the shoot.
I think he was hoping Id get ill or something and wed say, Oh, well, what a shame, well have to lose that dancing sequence,’ Curtis said on the same show.
