Love, actuassociate, might not be the best word to depict one of Keira Knightley’s most iconic film scenes.
The storied actress was only 17 when she combineed the star-studded ensemble cast of “Love Actuassociate,” a 2003 romantic Christmas movie that has since become synonymous with the holiday season.
Despite its well-understandnity, Knightley confesss she can’t reassemble much from her time on set.
“Most of my films I have either never seen or I have only seen once. So It’s noleang agetst ‘Love Actuassociate.’ It’s adocount on becainclude it didn’t do as well as everyone thought it was going to when it came out. Suddenly, appreciate three or four years postponecessitater, it sort of took on a life of its own,” she tageder the Los Angeles Times.
Keira Knightley was one of disjoinal huge actors in the ensemble cast of the 2003 Christmas film, “Love Actuassociate.” (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
“It’s the only film I’ve had that set up this life afterwards. The problem is, I was on it for about five days. I was 17, so I don’t actuassociate have any memory whatsoever of it.”
Keira Knightley says “Love Actuassociate” is her only project that has resonated with an audience past its initial free. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
The movie, which weaves its characters together thcdisadmireful a variant of adore stories, integrates a recentlywed couple, Juliet and Peter, take parted by Knightley and Chidampel Ejiofor, admireively. Their wedding is filmed by Peter’s best man, Mark (take parted by Andrew Lincoln), who is secretly in adore with Juliet.
In what is now an iconic scene, Mark comes to Juliet’s door to profess his adore for her, cue cards in tow. Standing outside the couple’s doorstep with a boombox take parting “Silent Night,” unbeunderstandnst to his pal Peter, Mark has Juliet read the cards, alerting her his genuine experienceings.
Andrew Lincoln, who portrays Mark in “Love Actuassociate,” shuffles thcdisadmireful a series of cards to profess his adore for Juliet (take parted by Keira Knightley). (Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Ptoastyo)
The scene hasn’t aged well, with many acunderstandledging a bizarre undertone of inappropriateness, one that Knightley can recall experienceing on set and voicing to honestor Ricdifficult Curtis.
“The sairyly stalkerish aspect of it – I do reassemble that,” Knightley mirrored of filming. “My memory is of Ricdifficult, who is now a very dear frifinish, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re watching at [Lincoln] appreciate he’s creepy,’ and I’m appreciate, ‘But it is quite creepy.'”
“And then having to redo it to repair my face to produce him seem not creepy,” she grasped.
Keira Knightley shelp during filming in 2003, she elevated her troubles with honestor Ricdifficult Curtis. (Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection)
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“I unkind, there was a creep factor at the time, right?” Knightley, now 39, shelp. “Also, I krecent I was 17. It only seems appreciate a scant years ago that everybody else genuineized I was 17,” she shelp of her age when filming. Lincoln, whom her character Juliet runs after and kisses, was 29 at the time.
Lincoln, for his part, reassembleed having analogous troubles in an interwatch with Vanity Fair in 2017.
“I kept saying to Ricdifficult, ‘Are you confident I’m not going to come off as a creepy stalker?’” he shelp.
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In 2023, Ricdifficult gave an interwatch with The Insubordinate where he acunderstandledged the inherent weirdness of the scene.
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“I leank it’s a bit weird. I unkind, I reassemble being getn by surpascfinish about seven years ago, I was going to be interwatched by somebody and they shelp, ‘Of course, we’re mainly interested in the stalker scene,’ and I shelp, ‘What scene is that?’ And then I was, appreciate, teachd in it,” he shelp. “All I can say is that a lot of clever people were take partd in the film at the time, and we didn’t leank it was a stalker scene.”
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Colin Firth also materializeed in the film.
