Love Truly 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 traditional for many years, however there’s additionally loads of ick. Actor Keira Knightley just lately shared her personal response to one of many film’s most notorious scenes.
It comes close to the tip when all the characters are coming to phrases with their particular person conditions on Christmas Eve. Mark, performed by Andrew Lincoln, has just lately revealed that he’s in love with Juliet, performed by Knightley, who occurs to be married to his greatest buddy, Peter, performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Mark reveals up at her and Peter’s home on December 24 and delivers a presentation through 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 solely on her.
“The marginally stalkerish side of it—I do do not forget that,” Knightley just lately informed the L.A. Instances as a part of a press tour for her new Netflix thriller collection Black Doves. “My reminiscence is of [director] Richard [Curtis], who’s now a really pricey buddy, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like [in a dramatic whisper], ‘However it is fairly creepy.’ After which having to redo it to repair my face to make him appear not creepy.”
On reflection, you’ll be able to nonetheless look again and skim 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 method as to sign that we must always see all of it as romantic and endearing. After all, 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 as if a number of years in the past that all people else realized I used to be 17.”
Love Truly got here out the identical 12 months 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 an important price. “I had a five-year interval between the age of 17 and 21-ish, and I’m by no means going to have that type of success once more,” she informed the L.A. Instances. “It completely set me up for all times. Did it come at a value? Sure, it did. It got here at a massive price. Realizing the associated fee, might I, in all good conscience, say to my child, it is best to try this? No. However am I grateful for it? Sure. However then that’s life, isn’t it? Fortunately, my children are utterly uninterested.”
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