Keira Knightley Admits She Always Thought ‘Love Actually’ Confession Was ‘Pretty Creepy’

Like everyone else in the world, Keira Knightley have strong feelings about a particular person Love actually confession – but she had them first.

At this point, it’s common knowledge that the movie’s cue card declaration scene hasn’t aged well. The “romantic” moment sees Andrew Lincoln‘s Mark uses handwritten signs to silently declare his love for Juliet (Knightley), the woman who has just married his best friend (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Knightley, recently told Los Angeles Times that while she doesn’t have the clearest memory of shooting the 2003 film, the “slightly stalkerish aspect” of that scene has stayed with her.

“My memory is Richard (Curtis),” she said, naming the film’s writer and director. “Of me doing the scene and him going, ‘No, you’re looking at (Lincoln) like he’s creepy.'”

Knightley said she responded by whispering, “’But that is pretty creepy.”

In the end, to get the final bid – which sees Juliet emotional and clearly charmed by Mark’s confession of love – they had to “repeat it to straighten my face to make him seem not creepy.”

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Alas, Knightley’s expression could not save Mark from the effects of time. Fans of the film have since agreed that Lincoln’s character showing up at her house days after her wedding to another man is both strange and alarming. But Knightley was ahead of the curve.

“I mean, there was a cringe factor at the time, right?,” Knightley asked, pointing out another bad layer in the relationship dynamic: at the time of filming, Knightley was 17, while Lincoln was 29. “I knew I was 17. It just seems like a few years ago all other realized I was 17.”

In his defense, Lincoln has also hinted that he too had his suspicions about how the scene would be received while filming it.

“He’s a stalker” Lincoln stated in 2016. “That was my question to Richard Curtis: ‘Don’t you think we’re kind of borderline stalker territory here?’ And he said, ‘No, no, not with you playing it, honey.’

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Over time, the rest of the world has caught up with Knightley and Lincoln’s reading of the relationship – including Curtis himself.

“He actually shows up, to his best friend’s house, to tell his best friend’s wife, on the off chance that she answers the door, ‘I love you,'” Curtis said last year during a chat with the Independent. “I I think it’s a little strange.”

Having said that, the Notting Hill and Four weddings and a funeral the author was surprised at first when he heard of the scene’s complicated reputation. “I remember being surprised about seven years ago,” he said, “I was going to be interviewed by someone and they said, ‘Of course we’re primarily interested in the stalker scene,’ and I said, ‘What scene is that? ‘ And then I was sort of trained in it.’

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