Emma Thompson says she wasn't 'well paid' for 'Love Actually'

• Emma Thompson says she wasn't "very well paid" for "Love Actually" during a recent interview.
• The two-time Academy Award winner also revealed she never rewatches the beloved holiday classic.

Emma Thompson is doing a lot of reflection on "Love Actually," which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The two-time Academy Award winner appeared on "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday and discussed a wide range of topics, but she couldn't escape comments and questions from Fallon about the beloved 2003 classic, which interweaves multiple characters and narratives in an effort to explore love in its many forms.

"Love Actually" may be a perennial favorite for many, particularly around the holidays, but Thompson, who played a central role in the film as the crushed, stoic wife of the late Alan Rickman, acknowledges she doesn't rewatch the film.

"That was 20 years ago," Thompson told Fallon. "I don't think I was very well paid for that. There was that terrible trailer with the loo that really stank and had that sort of… That's the things you remember, not the good ones."

Thompson also participated in the recent ABC special "The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later," hosted by Diane Sawyer, appearing alongside director Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Laura Linney, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and Olivia Olson.

Although Thompson doesn't reflect fondly on all aspects of the film now, the actor understands why "Love Actually" became a cultural sensation with longevity. It examines a universal theme that resonates with virtually everyone.

"I think we forget, time and time again we forget, that love is all that matters — it's all that matters," Thompson told Sawyer in the ABC special, adding that Curtis "reminds us in the film that's very funny about love and all its messiness, its unexpectedness and that you'll find love in the weirdest places, you know?"