The reunion was emotional. I was weepy the whole day

attack. “Poor sweet girl,” said Andie of the award- winning actress who played Scarlet, the colourful flatmate of Hugh Grant’s character Charles.

“It was completely heartbreaking to hear the news that she had died.

“She had such a beautiful part in the movie and was such an amazing actress.”

Andie admits she tried not to focus on Charlotte’s absence.

Instead, as they all huddled in the green room with tea and biscuits between takes to keep out the December cold, she kept thinking how everyone had aged.

Andie said: “It was emotional being reunited with everyone and I was weepy the whole day.

“I have such deep love and affection for them all. “We were all extremely comfortable around each other and, although it was 25 years, it was as if it had been yesterday.

“There was a certain ease to it, like, ‘Oh yes, we’ve done this before.’ It was like wearing an old shoe.”

Andie admits she is still confused by rumours of a frosty chemistry with co-star Grant, now 58, and the subject of her much- mocked final line of dialogue: “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.” She insists the pair got on well, with the Love Actually actor teasing her about dribbling her tea and having to feed her lines.

She added: “As time went on there was some criticism of the raining line, which I never really had a problem with.

“I don’t know why people clung to it. I didn’t see the problem.

“But I thought our chemistry was great and I love that scene in the rain – although it was freezing. You can see us shaking in that scene.

“If someone wanted it a different way they could have told me but I think everyone was happy with the take.”

Andie reveals this time she has taken a different approach to the character.

Instead of the distant American who held back from falling in love with Hugh’s bumbling London bachelor, she plays a more relaxed version of her character Carrie. “It was a really hard role to play,” she recalled of the original. “Anyone who could not fall in love with Hugh, that’s a hard thing to do. He was so amazingly beautiful and was everything a girl would want. ant.

“This time it wasn’t n’t so much slipping g back into Carrie e because we made the choice to make her a lot looser and laid back.

“And I was s tapping into some e different energy gy because it’s been n 25 years. It was nice to give Carrie this gentler side. id

Even more challenging for Andie than slipping back into an old character after a quarter of a century was readjusting to our sense of humour. “British humour is very unique and it takes a minute to settle back into it again,” she said.

“It It took a while wh at Richard Curtis’s house to t get used to how peop people interact with one ano another before I was like, ‘ ‘Oh yes, this is British humour. I have to remember that’s how people talk to each other.’”

But after t he s u c c e s s f u l Four Weddings reunion and m months of filming Cu Cuckoo with new pal Gr Greg e g and c o medy f favourites it T Tyger Drew-honey, 22, and Helen Baxendale, 48, Andie is guaranteed to be fluent in British humour once again.