Love Really is supposed to be an antidote to Hollywood romances and happily-ever-after endings. Its mixture of vulnerability, sentimentality, and disarming goofiness has made it a Christmas film basic for many years, however there’s additionally loads of ick. Actor Keira Knightley lately shared her personal response to one of many film’s most notorious scenes.
It comes close to the top when all the characters are coming to phrases with their particular person conditions on Christmas Eve. Mark, performed by Andrew Lincoln, has lately revealed that he’s in love with Juliet, performed by Knightley, who occurs to be married to his greatest pal, Peter, performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Mark exhibits up at her and Peter’s home on December 24 and delivers a presentation by way of boombox and cue playing cards explaining his emotions for her and the way he’ll put them apart to simply be pals. It’s a catharsis that solely comes after she beforehand found his recording of her wedding ceremony, full with a stalker’s focus completely on her.
“The marginally stalkerish facet of it—I do do not forget that,” Knightley lately advised the L.A. Occasions as a part of a press tour for her new Netflix thriller sequence Black Doves. “My reminiscence is of [director] Richard [Curtis], who’s now a really pricey pal, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re taking a look at [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like [in a dramatic whisper], ‘However it’s fairly creepy.’ After which having to redo it to repair my face to make him appear not creepy.”
Looking back, you possibly can nonetheless look again and browse Knightley’s scrunch-faced response as her character being barely put-off by the entire stunt, although the scene itself is shot and edited in such a approach as to sign that we must always see all of it as romantic and endearing. In fact, including to the creep issue is that Knightley was additionally solely 17 on the time the film was shot. “I imply, there was a creep issue on the time, proper?” she added. “Additionally, I knew I used to be 17. It solely looks like just a few years in the past that everyone else realized I used to be 17.”
Love Really got here out the identical yr as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which catapulted Knightley into the higher echelons of stardom. She stated the following hyper-scrutiny from followers, media, and others made the success come at a terrific value. “I had a five-year interval between the age of 17 and 21-ish, and I’m by no means going to have that sort of success once more,” she advised the L.A. Occasions. “It completely set me up for all times. Did it come at a value? Sure, it did. It got here at an enormous value. Understanding the associated fee, might I, in all good conscience, say to my child, it’s best to try this? No. However am I grateful for it? Sure. However then that’s life, isn’t it? Fortunately, my youngsters are fully uninterested.”
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