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Game of Thronesstar Thomas Brodie-Sangster has been a part of the film industry ever since he was very young. He has gone on to star in some very well-known, critically acclaimed projects outside the HBO hit series, likeStar Wars: The Force Awakens, Nowhere Boy,andThe Queen’s Gambit.It is no surprise that the actor has gone on to do such great things because he acted alongside big names when he was barely a teenager. The perfect example of this would be that of the 2003 film,Love Actually,where he was only thirteen years old.
The film starred several A-list or future A-list actors, like Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Alan Rickman. DuringThe Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later,Brodie-Sangster revisited key places in the film, and something went wrong. The actor and Diane Swayer, who was taking the interview, were almost arrested by the police.
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Thomas Brodie-Sangster Was Almost Arrested During An Interview
Game of Thronesstar, Thomas Brodie-Sangster gave an interview for the twentieth anniversary ofLove Actuallywith Diane Swayer, titledThe Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later.Here, viaPeople, the pair visited the London Park bench, where the iconic scene between him and his on-screen stepdad, Liam Neeson, was shot.
When Sayer was asking the actor questions about his movie, they were approached by a couple of local police officers. They questioned them about whether they had a permit to shoot there or not.
Upon hearing that they did not, in fact, have a permit, one of the crew members was told by the police that they were going to get arrested. Sawyer, upon learning this, joked a bit, questioning if this could actually be a possibility. She told the actor that this was the part where they ran away from the police.
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Liam Neeson Was A Parental Figure To Thomas Brodie-Sangster On The Film
While interacting with the police was certainly one of the more comic aspects of this hourlong special, Diane Sawyer did manage to ask Thomas Brodie-Sangster some questions about the movie.
Specifically, the actor was asked about what it was like working with Liam Neeson, who played his stepfather inLove Actually.The actor revealed that throughout the shooting of this movie, he ended up, sharing a father-son-like bond with him.
“Liam was amazing. He treated me like his son,”said theGame of Thronesstar.“He was absolutely loving to me. He just created this environment where I was very comfortable. At the time I thought, you know, I was pretty much a grownup and I’d been doing this a few years now and I knew what I was doing. I was very serious about it. But looking back, I’d forgotten how small and new I was.”
Game of Thronesstar elaborated on this, stating that Neeson was extremely loving on set. He helped create a very comforting environment for someone that young being on a project that big. The actor concluded by claiming that he thought back then that he knew exactly what he had been doing. However, looking back at the experience, he is well aware of how naive he could sometimes act, and how important Neeson’s guidance proved to be.
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Ananya Godboley is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows, with over 2,000 articles published. She has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years. Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology from K.R. Mangalam University, Ananya also likes to fangirl as a full-time job. She covers news and analyses on anything from Rick and Morty to Hannibal and even Arcane. In between these lines, she also enjoys superheroes and Taylor Swift.A philosophy enthusiast, Ananya enjoys digging deeper into the media she consumes, trying to understand the root of her favorite characters' behavior.
