10 Films Which Accidentally Predicted The Future
2. Liam Neeson's Personal Tragedy - Love Actually
Love Actually is a film which becomes compulsory family viewing in most households throughout the festive period and with its sentimental message and star-studded cast it is easy to see why most revisit this cheesy Christmas classic annually.
However, in perhaps one of the most devastating yet bizarre examples of a film seemingly predicting real life, Liam Neeson's widowed Love Actually character became a reality as the Northern Irish actor lost his wife six years after the film was released. While in Love Actually it is never confirmed how the unseen wife died, in reality Neeson's wife Natasha Richardson lost her life in a ski-ing accident in 2009.
Neeson acknowledged the tragic yet odd nature of having acted out this grief-stricken role of a widow dealing with the loss of his spouse to then experience it for real a few years later when he noted "plenty of times I’ve thought about this film and my own life... that’s the way it is. That’s the tapestry of life."