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One of my favorite movies, but my pet peeves from the first viewing was


the actress playing Hugh Grant's ex looks so much like him that I assumed when I first saw the movie that she was his sister and they'd done a miraculous casting job. Finding out that her character is his ex and not at all related to him was weird.

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I've seen this movie a dozen times, and although his ex is briefly mentioned, she's nowhere in the film. Do you mean Bella, his friend in the wheelchair whom he briefly dated? Confused!

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I'd assume the OP meant Bella. There's a thread on that actress' forum that is about her looking like Hugh. Personally, I don't see it a bit, at least not from this one film (the only thing I have knowingly seen her in)

The thread is at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571160/board/flat/208470937

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William stated that his best friend, Max, had married his former love, Bella. The actress who played Bella, Gina McKee, bears absolutely no resemblance to Hugh Grant.

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