Is someone chopping onions in here, or is a Christmas movie playing?
If pressed, I could perform big, hilarious chunks of it from memory. After a glass of mulled wine or three I might even be induced to perform Prime Minister Hugh Grant’s dexterous Number 10 dance routine.
But until today I had no idea about a small but perfectly formed deleted storyline from the film. It follows the headmistress of the school and her terminally sick partner, a woman named Geraldine . The storyline had to be cut after they axed an earlier moment setting up the headmistress and her relationship with Karen , but that doesn’t make the loss any more keenly felt.
The tenderness of this lesbian couple’s brief moments together as they playfully rib each other over posh sausages and the nuances of seventies television, is incredibly moving. “Excellent episode of Starsky and Hutch this afternoon,” Geraldine says. “Those two really are the most appalling drivers.”
Later, as Geraldine coughs painfully in bed, her partner curls up against her and rests her head on her shoulder. The final scene of the couple’s storyline sees Karen addressing the crowd before the nativity play. “On behalf of all the parents that we think it’s very brave her being here today, in light of her recent loss,” Karen says. “Geraldine was a wonderful and wicked woman, and sorrow is particularly hard at Christmas.
Director and writer Richard Curtis said that he was “really sorry” to have to remove these scenes from the film. The idea, he explains, was that this storyline would serve to underscore that everyone has love in their lives, even the sternest of headmistresses. “You realise that no matter how unlikely it seems that any character that you come across in life has their own complicated tale of love,” Curtis explained, in an introduction to the deleted scene.
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