Keira Knightley doesn’t watch ‘Love Actually’ at Christmas — she prefers this classic instead

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Love Actually might have been one of the films that helped Keira Knightley break through, but she’s revealed that it’s not in her movie rotation over the Christmas period.The star, who most recently played undercover assassin Helen Webb in the Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves, revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she’s never seen the holiday classic since its premiere.On Monday (December 9), Fallon mentioned that she was one of the stars of the Richard Curtis-directed movie, which he described as “one of the greatest holiday films of all time,” and asked her if she ever watches it during the holiday season.“No,” she replied. “I saw it on the premiere when I was 18, and I’ve never seen it since.”She continued: “This is nothing about Love Actually – I don’t really watch anything I do.

But I know that Love Actually obviously has become this massive thing. And for lots of people, it’s part of their Christmas.

But no, I’ve not seen it since then.”Rather, she prefers the 1988 action movie Die Hard, despite the ongoing debate over whether or not the Bruce Willis film, which is set on Christmas Eve, counts as a Christmas movie or not.In Love Actually, Knightley played Juliet, who’s married to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Peter – and the couple don’t realise that Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who is Peter’s best friend, is secretly in love with her.On Christmas Eve, Juliet answers the door to Mark, who has a boombox playing a Christmas carol and a range of cue cards, with which he shows a message of love.

As he walks away, Juliet runs after him, gives him a kiss, and returns back inside.Over the years, however, some fans have criticised the scene and described it as “creepy” – particularly as Knightley was just 17 when.