Keira Knightly found shooting controversial ‘Love Actually’ scene “creepy”

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Keira Knightley has admitted she found shooting Love Actually‘s controversial cue cards scene “creepy”.The much-talked-about moment sees Andrew Lincoln’s character Mark – the best friend of her on-screen husband Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) – turn up on their doorstep after her character Juliet learns that he secretly harbours feelings for her.The divisive moment sees him hold up cue cards declaring his love for her, and Knightley said in a new interview that it did have a “slightly stalkerish aspect” to it.“The slightly stalkerish aspect of it — I do remember that,” she told the LA Times. “My memory is of [director] Richard [Curtis], who is now a very dear friend, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re looking at [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like [in a dramatic whisper], ‘But it is quite creepy.’ And then having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy.”Knightley further noted: “I mean, there was a creep factor at the time, right?

Also, I knew I was 17. It only seems like a few years ago that everybody else realised I was 17.”It comes after Curtis revealed last year that he would cast someone older than Knightley if he were to make the film today.Following the success of Love Actually, Knightley went on to star in the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, and admitted last month that she was “taken down publicly” after the blockbuster films.“It’s a funny thing when you have something that was making and breaking you at the same time,” she told The Times.“I was seen as shit because of them, and yet because they did so well I was given the opportunity to do the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for.