In fact, love might not be the best word to describe one of Keira Knightley's most iconic movie scenes.
The celebrated actress was just 17 years old when she joined the star-studded ensemble cast of the 2003 romantic Christmas movie “Love Actually,” which has since become synonymous with the holiday season.
Despite her popularity, Knightley admitted that she doesn't remember much from being on set.
“Most of my movies I've never seen or I've only seen once, so it's nothing against 'Love Actually.'” Everyone expected it when it was released. “That's great because it didn't do as well as it did, but after three or four years, all of a sudden, it kind of took on a life of its own,” she said. Los Angeles Times.
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Keira Knightley was one of several big-name actors to appear in the ensemble cast of the 2003 Christmas film Love Actually. (Dimitrios Cambris/Getty Images)
“This movie was the only movie I had, and then I was watching this movie. The problem is, I was in this movie for about five days. I'm 17. I actually don't remember the movie at all because I was so old.
Keira Knightley said Love Actually was her only project to resonate with audiences since its initial release. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
The film weaves a cast of characters through various love stories, with newlyweds Juliet and Peter played by Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor, respectively. Their wedding is filmed by Peter's attendant Mark (played by Andrew Lincoln), who is secretly in love with Juliet.
In the now iconic scene, Mark shows up at Juliet's door with cue cards and declares his love for her. Unbeknownst to his friend Peter, Mark stands outside the couple's front door with Silent Night playing on his boombox and tells Juliet how he really feels by reading the card.
Andrew Lincoln, who plays Mark in Love Actually, shuffles a set of cards to confess his love to Juliet, played by Keira Knightley. (Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Photo)
The scene hasn't aged well, with many acknowledging an odd air of inappropriateness, which Knightley remembers feeling on set and calling out to director Richard Curtis.
“I'm a bit like a stalker. do Remember that,'' Knightley said of the shoot. “My memory is that Richard, who is now a very dear friend of mine, and I were acting out that scene and he said, 'No, that's what you're looking at.' [Lincoln] Like, he's creepy,' I thought, 'but that's teeth It's pretty creepy. ”
“And I had to redo the face to make him look less creepy,” she added.
Keira Knightley said she expressed her concerns to director Richard Curtis during filming in 2003. (Universal/Courtesy of Everett Collection)
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“I mean, there It was “It was a creep factor back then, right?” said Knightly, now 39. everyone Other than that Lincoln, the character Juliet chases and kisses, was 29 years old at the time.
Lincoln himself recalled having similar concerns in a 2017 Vanity Fair interview.
“I kept saying to Richard, 'Are you sure you don't want people to think you're a creepy stalker?'” he said.
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In 2023, Richard gave an interview to The Independent in which he acknowledged the inherent strangeness of the scene.
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“I I think that's a little weird. I mean, about seven years ago, I was trying to get an interview with someone and they said, “Of course, we're primarily interested in the stalker scene,” and I said, “What kind of scene is that?” he said. ?'And I was kind of educated on that movie,'' he says, adding, “All I can say is that there were a lot of intelligent people involved in this movie at the time, and I We had no idea it was a stalker scene.”
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and Colin Firth also starred.
