Love Actually

2022 - 12 - 25

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Olivia Olson claims being cast in Love Actually almost caused her to ... (Daily Mail)

The actress, 30, who played American schoolgirl Joanna, said that receiving cruel comments about her weight was challenging and turned her to voice-over acting ...

'Every Christmas, I get the calls and the texts. I think it's grown so much and it's become such this, like, nostalgic piece of our holidays,' she added. I kind of knew what I was doing. So, I was very serious about it. Just created this environment where I was very comfortable,' Brodie-Sangster says. And I'd forgotten how good it was,' Brodie-Sangster admitted.

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Love Actually star quit fame and feared breakdown after she was ... (Irish Mirror)

Olivia Olson, 30, played American schoolgirl Joanna in Love Actually twenty years ago. The child star has revealed how she nearly suffered a breakdown due ...

Itโ€™s like, โ€˜What?โ€™," she told The Sun. She said that she was the only mixed race child in the school and that she always felt "like an outcast". She said that she often thinks about the fact that she could have been raised by her young mum on the streets and that she had a lucky escape. Love Actually was the first film she auditioned for and it threw her into a world that was very different to the one she grew up in. [Olivia](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/love-actually-fans-spot-blunder-28760820) fearing she was close to "a mental breakdown" and led to her turning her back on the big screen. Her singing was so good that the film's producers had to ask her to tone it down to make it more believable.

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