‘Love Truly’ star thinks iconic scene is ‘creepy’
Love, really, may not be one of the simplest ways to explain one in every of Keira Knightley’s most iconic movie scenes.
The storied actress was solely 17 when she joined the star-studded ensemble forged of “Love Truly,” a 2003 romantic Christmas film that has since turn into synonymous with the vacation season.
Regardless of its recognition, Knightley admits she will be able to’t keep in mind a lot from her time on set.
“Most of my movies I’ve both by no means seen or I’ve solely seen as soon as. So It’s nothing in opposition to ‘Love Truly.’ It’s beautiful as a result of it didn’t do in addition to everybody thought it was going to when it got here out. Immediately, like three or 4 years later, it kind of took on a lifetime of its personal,” she advised the Los Angeles Occasions.
Keira Knightley was one in every of a number of huge actors within the ensemble forged of the 2003 Christmas movie, “Love Truly.” (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos)
“It’s the one movie I’ve had that discovered this life afterwards. The issue is, I used to be on it for about 5 days. I used to be 17, so I don’t even have any reminiscence by any means of it.”
Keira Knightley says “Love Truly” is her solely challenge that has resonated with an viewers previous its preliminary launch. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photos)
The film, which weaves its characters collectively via a variant of affection tales, features a newlywed couple, Juliet and Peter, performed by Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor, respectively. Their marriage ceremony is filmed by Peter’s greatest man, Mark (performed by Andrew Lincoln), who’s secretly in love with Juliet.
In what’s now an iconic scene, Mark involves Juliet’s door to profess his love for her, cue playing cards in tow. Standing exterior the couple’s doorstep with a boombox taking part in “Silent Evening,” unbeknownst to his pal Peter, Mark has Juliet learn the playing cards, telling her his true emotions.
Andrew Lincoln, who portrays Mark in “Love Truly,” shuffles via a collection of playing cards to profess his love for Juliet (performed by Keira Knightley). (Most Movie/Alamy Inventory Photograph)
The scene hasn’t aged effectively, with many acknowledging a weird undertone of inappropriateness, one which Knightley can recall feeling on set and voicing to director Richard Curtis.
“The marginally stalkerish side of it – I do keep in mind that,” Knightley mirrored of filming. “My reminiscence is of Richard, who’s now a really expensive buddy, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like, ‘Nevertheless it is fairly creepy.'”
“After which having to redo it to repair my face to make him appear not creepy,” she added.
Keira Knightley mentioned throughout filming in 2003, she raised her issues with director Richard Curtis. (Common/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
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“I imply, there was a creep issue on the time, proper?” Knightley, now 39, mentioned. “Additionally, I knew I used to be 17. It solely looks as if a couple of years in the past that all people else realized I used to be 17,” she mentioned of her age when filming. Lincoln, whom her character Juliet runs after and kisses, was 29 on the time.
Lincoln, for his half, remembered having related issues in an interview with Vainness Honest in 2017.
“I saved saying to Richard, ‘Are you positive I’m not going to come back off as a creepy stalker?’” he mentioned.
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In 2023, Richard gave an interview with The Unbiased the place he acknowledged the inherent weirdness of the scene.
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“I assume it’s a bit bizarre. I imply, I keep in mind being taken without warning about seven years in the past, I used to be going to be interviewed by any individual they usually mentioned, ‘In fact, we’re primarily within the stalker scene,’ and I mentioned, ‘What scene is that?’ After which I used to be, like, educated in it,” he mentioned. “All I can say is that numerous clever folks had been concerned within the movie on the time, and we didn’t assume it was a stalker scene.”
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Colin Firth additionally appeared within the movie.
