Last Christmas Trivia | 30 facts about the movie

“Last Christmas” is not only a popular Christmas pop song by Wham!, but since 2019 it is also the title of a successful Christmas rom-com.

Let’s find out more about the movie!

1. The 2 main characters are Kate & Tom.
2. Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions, who is working as an elf in a year round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer.
3. Kate meets Tom there -the second lead. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.
4. The movie was filmed on-location in London.
5. In order to avoid crowds interrupting filming, many scenes started filming around 2 a.m.
6. George Michael worked at a homeless shelter, although anonymously.
7. Wham! donated all of the royalties of the original song, Wham!: Last Christmas (1984), to Ethiopian famine relief.
8. Emilia Clarke did her own singing in this movie.
9. When Kate is riding home in her father’s cab, Emilia Clarke’s dragon tattoos can be briefly seen on her wrist.
10. Emilia got the tattoos during the final season of Game of Thrones (2011) as an homage to her character Daenerys.
11. Actress, Writer, and Producer Dame Emma Thompson started working on the script in 2010.
12. In addition to the title being based on the George Michael written song Wham!: Last Christmas (1984), songs by George Michael were used in this movie.
13. The movie actually included the unreleased “This Is How (We Want You To Get High)”, on which he worked in 2016.
14. This movie was number one at the U.K. box-office during its opening weekend.
15. A tie-in book is released with the movie’s release, written by Dame Emma Thompson and husband Greg Wise, with essays regarding the meaning of Christmas: “Last Christmas: Memories of Christmases past – and hopes for future ones”.
16. The book featured contributions by Andy Serkis, Caitlin Moran, Olivia Colman, and Emily Watson.
17. During Ingrid Oliver’s audition, she was not asked to read from the script, but to improvise with Actress, Writer, and Producer Dame Emma Thompson in front of Director Paul Feig.
18. She described the experience as “mental” as she is a huge fan of Thompson and Feig.
19. As of 2018, the song “Last Christmas” still remains a popular holiday classic.
20. On December 24, 2018, it generated seven million streams on Spotify, claiming the most streams in a single day for a song released in the 1980s.
21. The same year, the official video generated sixty-five million views on YouTube throughout December.
22. This movie marks the first writing collaboration of spouses Dame Emma Thompson and Greg Wise, a process that was eight years in the making.
23. Dame Emma Thompson’s first holiday-themed movie since Love Actually… (2003), also a comedy set in London, and released by Universal Pictures.
24. This movie used sustainability strategies to reduce its carbon emissions and environmental impact.
25. When Santa is showing tacky Christmas items to the man to whom she is attracted, she grabs one of three orange ceramic monkeys and either intentionally or by mistake refers to it as a “Christmas Gibbon”. In fact, they are called “Yule Gibbons”, a pun upon the name of the natural food activist Euell Gibbons.
26. Emilia Clarke’s second romantic movie.
27. Peter Mygind (Tall Dane, aka Boy) filmed his on-screen with his wife Lise Mühlhausen reading Michelle Yeoh’s lines and his son filming the scene.
28. ‘Santa’ says when she worked in a bakery she used to call herself muffin or ‘muff’ for short. This was a British gag to get past the American censors. ‘Muff’ is British slang for a woman’s pubic hair.
29. Emilia is clearly holding back a laugh when Santa says she used to be called muff.
30. This movie mirrors a highly acclaimed Nordic gay-friendly twenty minute short Cognitio (2018), featuring Lasse Steen.