Keira Knightley was frightened by “stalking” as a 17-year-old in “Love Actually”
Keira Knightley has gone on record saying that she filmed the scene with the Bob Dylan-esque cue signs found “love actually” “creepy”.
In that much-discussed moment, Andrew “Rick Grimes” Lincoln’s character Mark – her on-screen husband Peter’s (Chiwetel Ejiofor) best friend – shows up on her doorstep after her on-screen character Juliet learns that he secretly has feelings for her. She noticed that Mark didn’t film the couple at their wedding, just her (uncomfortable in itself).
Stalker aspect
In the moment that causes discussion, Mark holds up text panels declaring his love for her. And Knightley said in a new interview that there was a “slightly stalkerish aspect” to it.
“The slightly stalkerish aspect of it – I remember that,” she told the Los Angeles Times. ‘I remember that [Regisseur] Richard [Curtis]who is now a very good friend, saw me in the scene and said, ‘No, you look [Lincoln] like he was scary,” and I said [dramatisch flüsternd]: “But it’s pretty scary.” And then I had to do it again to get my face to stop looking scary.”
Knightley was only 17
Knightley further noted, “I mean, there was a spooky factor back then, right? Also, I knew I was 17. It seems like it was only a few years ago that everyone else realized I was 17.”
Her admission came after Curtis revealed last year that he would cast someone older than Knightley if he made the film today.
Following the success of Love Actually, Knightley starred in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series and admitted last month that she was “publicly beaten up” after the blockbuster films“.
A very confusing topic in my mind
“It’s strange when you have something that makes you big and small at the same time,” she told the Times.
“I was looked at like shit for those movies, and yet because they did so well, I got the opportunity to make the movies that eventually got me Oscar nominations. They were the most successful films I had ever been involved in and were the reason I fell into public disrepute. So they are a very confusing topic in my mind.”