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Keira Knightley admits she agrees with viewers' ‘creepy’ complaint about Love Actually

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Published 17:33 7 Dec 2024 GMT

Keira Knightley admits she agrees with viewers' ‘creepy’ complaint about Love Actually

Even director Richard Curtis called the scene 'a bit weird'

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Featured Image Credit: Universal Pictures

Topics: Celebrity, Film

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish is a Journalist at LADbible Group and is a GG2 Young Journalist of the Year 2025. He has a Master's degree in Multimedia Journalism and a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management. Apart from that, his life revolves around the ‘Four F’s’ - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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Keira Knightley says she can't help but agree with complaints about that 'creepy' Love Actually scene.

I think you know the one:

The 2003 romcom follows the tangled-up and complicated love lives of a number of couples during the Christmas period in London.

You've got Hugh Grant starring as the newly elected Prime Minister, David, who falls for Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), a member of his household staff.

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There's also Colin Firth playing a writer named Jamie, who develops feeling towards his Portuguese housekeeper Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz).

Let's also not forget Liam Neeson as Daniel, a grieving widower helping his stepson Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) out with his first crush.

We all know the scene (Universal Pictures)
We all know the scene (Universal Pictures)

Then we have Knightley who stars as Juliet. Her life gets turned upside down when her husband’s best friend, Mark (Andrew Lincoln), secretly has a massive crush on her.

And in one of the most memorable Love Actually scenes, Mark shows up to Juliet's door step and uses cue cards to declare his unspoken love for her. All while her husband is unaware.

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Although it was supposed to be somewhat of a romantic gesture, some viewers thought it crossed several boundaries and was just very creepy.

In a recent interview with the LA Times, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 39, admitted: "The slightly stalkerish aspect of it — I do remember that.

"My memory is of Richard, who is now a very dear friend, of me doing the scene, and him going, 'No, you’re looking at [Andrew] like he’s creepy,' and I’m like [in a dramatic whisper], 'But it is quite creepy.'

Keira Knightley admits the scene was 'creepy' (Universal Pictures)
Keira Knightley admits the scene was 'creepy' (Universal Pictures)

"And then having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy."

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She added: "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."

Even the director Richard Curtis admitted that the scene was 'a bit weird'.

"I think it’s a bit weird. I mean, I remember being taken by surprise about seven years ago, I was going to be interviewed by somebody and they said, ‘Of course, we’re mainly interested in the stalker scene,’ and I said, ‘What scene is that?’ And then I was, like, educated in it," he told the Independent in 2023.

"All I can say is that a lot of intelligent people were involved in the film at the time, and we didn’t think it was a stalker scene.

"But if it’s interesting or funny for different reasons [now] then, you know.

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"God bless our progressive world."

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