Like everyone else in the world, Keira Knightley has strong feelings towards a certain person Actually love Confession – but she had it first.

At this point, it’s common knowledge that the movie’s cue explanation scene hasn’t aged well. In the “romantic” moment, Andrew Lincoln’s Mark silently declares, with handwritten signs, his love for Juliet (Knightley), the woman who has just married his best friend (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Knightley recently told the Los Angeles Times that while she doesn’t have the clearest memory of filming the 2003 film, she does remember the “slightly stalkerish aspect” of that scene.

“I remember Richard (Curtis),” she said, naming the film’s writer and director. “That I’m doing the scene and he says, ‘No, you look at (Lincoln) like he’s scary.'”

Knightley said she whispered, “But it Is pretty scary.’”

Ultimately, to get the final shot where Juliet is emotional and visibly enthralled by Mark’s confession of love, they had to “reshoot the film to correct my face so it doesn’t look scary.”

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Unfortunately, Knightley’s expression couldn’t save Mark from the effects of time. Fans of the film now agree that it’s both strange and disturbing that Lincoln’s character shows up at her house just days after her wedding to another man. But Knightley was ahead of the curve.

“I mean, there Was “It was a creep factor back then, wasn’t it?” Knightley asked, pointing out another delicate 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 it did a few years ago all different realized I was 17.

In his defense, Lincoln has also suggested that during filming he also had doubts about how the scene would be received.

“He’s a stalker,” Lincoln explained in 2016. “That was my question to Richard Curtis: ‘Don’t you think we’re kind of a borderline area for stalkers here?’ And he said, ‘No, no. Not if you play it, darling.’”

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

“He actually comes to his best friend’s house to say, ‘I love you,’ to his best friend’s wife in case she opens the door,” Curtis said last year during a conversation with the Independent. “I I find it a bit strange.

That is, the Notting Hill And Four weddings and funerals The author was initially surprised to learn of the scene’s complicated reputation. “I remember being surprised about seven years ago,” he said. “I wanted to be interviewed by someone and they said, ‘Of course we’re mostly 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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