“Love Actually” 2 Update: David And Natalie Are Still Together, And Married! Emma Thompson Reveals Why She Can’t Return In Red Nose Sequel

A new set of photos have fans of the British romance film “Love Actually” excited for the sequel.

Time Out recounts the last time we saw David (Hugh Grant) and Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), and what fans should expect in the 10-minute sequel:

“At the end of “Love Actually” we saw the PM make a mad-dash across London to Natalie’s mum’s house in Wandsworth to declare his undying love (after rescuing her from the handsy US president). So it looks as if the couple have made it – after what must have been 13 years of intense scrutiny from the tabloids and overcoming all the differences in their backgrounds.

The sequel “Red Nose Actually,” which will premiere on BBC One on March 24, will return with David and Natalie now as a married couple, according to a series of photos tweeted by film writer and now Comic Relief director Emma Freud.

One photo showed McCutcheon staring into the camera, with Freud writing a caption that read, "Our pm is still married. And she's still lovely. #rednosedayactually."

Another photo showed Grant and McCutcheon together with one of the sequel’s writers, further solidifying the fictional couple’s happy status in another caption that read, “The PM, his wife and the writer who never worked out a good camera face.”

But there’s one couple we won’t be seeing in the sequel. Emma Thompson has confirmed that she won’t be in “Red Nose Actually.”

Telling the Press Association, Thompson said it wouldn’t be right to be in the sequel because of her co-star, Alan Rickman, who passed away early last year.

Thompson told the PA, "Richard [Curtis, screenwriter] wrote to me and said, “Darling, we can't write anything for you because of Alan,” and I said, “No, of course, it would be sad, too sad.””