British actress Keira Knightley opened up about the iconic (and for some controversial) cue card scene from the Christmas classic Love Actually in a new interview, admitting she found it “creepy” during filming.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about her new Netflix series “Black Doves,” Knightley said she doesn’t remember much from her work on the 2003 romantic comedy. She was only 17 years old and was only on set for “about five days,” she explained.

But Knightley said she remembers feeling uneasy when Andrew Lincoln’s Mark silently confesses his love to her character Julia – using the cards outside her house at night – while Julia’s husband (and Mark’s boyfriend!) Peter (portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor) didn’t know anything above.

“The slightly stalkerish aspect of it – I remember that,” Knightley told the Times. “I remember (director) Richard (Curtis) said, ‘No, you look at (Andrew) like he’s scary,’ and I said, ‘But it is.’ Is pretty scary.’ And then I had to do it again to correct my face so he wouldn’t look scary.”

Asked if she felt the “cringe factor” at the time, Knightley replied: “There Was a creep factor, right? I also knew I was 17 – it feels like everyone else only recently realized I was 17.”

Lincoln and Ejiofor saw the scene similarly.

“The story is structured like a prism that looks at all the different qualities of love,” Lincoln told Entertainment Weekly in 2017. “My story was not reciprocated. So I must be this weird stalker guy.”

“My big scene in the doorway felt so easy. I just had to hold cards and be in love with Keira Knightley,” he added. “But I kept saying to Richard, ‘Are you sure I don’t come across as a creepy stalker?'”

Ejiofor, meanwhile, said of his and Lincoln’s characters in August: “I think if there was a conversation between the two of them after that, it could get heated.”

“I’ve noticed in the 20-odd years since the movie came out that sometimes people find it romantic – the gesture, the cards, all that stuff,” he told ComicBook.com. “And sometimes people just think, ‘What is he doing?’ He should have been arrested.’”

However, Knightley told the Times she was still proud of the film.

“It’s nice because when it was released it didn’t do as well as expected,” she said. “Then, three or four years later, it took on a life of its own. It’s the only film I’ve been in that has had that incredible second wind.”

Read the full interview here and watch the trailer for “Black Doves” here: