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Hot and Bothered

Love Actually: Part 1

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Happy holiday season! As a thank you to those who supported our Patreon drive last month we're bringing you a special bonus movie before the new year. Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at a school Christmas pagent to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered about Love Actually.


For this episode, we're focus on four plot lines – the prime minister, the writer and housekeeper, the cheating husband, and the man in love with his best friend's wife. We finish the episode with an interview Leon Neyfakh about the media coverage of Monica Lewinsky during the Clinton scandal. Next week, we look at three more plot lines from Love Actually. 



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0:00.0

We started this season because as much as we wanted to believe that it was pride and prejudice and Jane Eyre that bore us into our sense of selves, we know that it is just as much how to lose a guy in 10 days and 10 things I hate about you.

0:20.4

We wanted to understand the way that these

0:22.6

movies impacted us. Because I think I've done a lot of big things because of kind of trivial art.

0:30.2

I believe that you can probably draw a straight line from my singing the musical Les Miz to my going

0:37.1

to divinity school.

0:38.9

My brothers and I did karate through our black belts

0:42.3

because my younger brother loved the karate kid.

0:47.0

Love actually is not a movie I love,

0:49.9

but it is a movie that lives alive and loud in my head.

0:55.4

It is deeply personal to me.

0:58.6

When I look at our producer Ariana, I sometimes hear Bill Nye, turning to his colleague and saying,

1:05.4

You're the love of my life.

1:07.1

When my brothers call me and I'm in the middle of something, sometimes I answer as if I'm Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister of England.

1:15.5

Yes, I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?

1:18.7

And then, take a deep breath, everyone.

1:22.1

When I found out two years ago that my husband had been cheating on me, I heard Emma Thompson's voice.

1:29.0

Would you say, knowing life would always be a little bit worse?

1:33.6

And I think it's part of why I left. I think love actually is part of why I left my husband.

1:42.6

And I think about this movie every time I see something gorgeous at the airport.

1:48.7

At the beginning of love, actually, Hugh Grant articulates a truth that we all believe.

1:54.6

One of the most beautiful places in the world is the arrivals terminal at an airport.

2:00.0

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at an airport. Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,

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