In fact, love may not be the best word to describe one of Keira Knightley’s most famous movie scenes.

The famous actress was just 17 years old when she joined the star-studded cast of Love Actually, a 2003 romantic Christmas film that has since become synonymous with the holiday season.

Despite the popularity, Knightley admits she doesn’t remember much of her time on set.

“Most of my films I have either never seen or only seen once. So there’s nothing wrong with ‘Love Actually.'” “It’s nice because it didn’t do as well as everyone thought it would when it came out,” she told the Los Angeles Times.

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“It’s the only film I’ve ever seen that found that life afterward. The problem is that I was at it for about five days. I was 17, so I actually have no memory of it at all.”

The film, which connects its characters through a twist on love stories, features a newly married couple, Juliet and Peter, played by Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor, respectively. Their wedding is filmed by Peter’s best man Mark (played by Andrew Lincoln), who is secretly in love with Julia.

In a now-iconic scene, Mark arrives at Julia’s door with cue cards in tow to confess his love for her. Mark stands in front of the couple’s front door and plays “Silent Night” from a boombox without his friend Peter knowing. He has Juliet read the cards and tells her about his true feelings.

The scene has not aged well, and many recognize a bizarre undertone of inappropriateness that Knightley remembers feeling on set and expressing to director Richard Curtis.

“The slightly stalkerish aspect of it – me Do Remember that,” Knightley reflected on the filming. “I remember Richard, who’s now a very dear friend, doing the scene and him saying, ‘No, you look at (Lincoln) like he’s scary,'” and I say, “But it.” Is pretty scary.’”

“And then I had to do it again to fix my face so he wouldn’t look scary,” she added.

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“I mean, there Was It was a creep factor back then, wasn’t it?” said Knightley, now 39. “Plus, I knew I was 17. It feels like it was only a few years ago.” all different “I realized I was 17,” she said of her age during filming. Lincoln, whom her character Juliet chases and kisses, was 29 at the time.

Lincoln, for his part, recalled similar concerns in a 2017 interview with Vanity Fair.

“I kept saying to Richard, ‘Are you sure I don’t come across as a creepy stalker?'” he said.

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In 2023, Richard gave an interview with The Independent in which he acknowledged the inherent strangeness of the scene.

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“I find it a bit strange. I mean, I remember about seven years ago I was surprised that I wanted to be interviewed by someone and he said, “Of course we’re mostly interested in the stalker scene,” and I said, “What a scene it is.” the?” ?’ And then I was sort of trained in it,” he said. “All I can say is that there were a lot of intelligent people involved in the film at the time, and we didn’t think it was a stalker scene.”

Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Colin Firth also appeared in the film.