What Keira Knightley Knew About Love Actually’s SHOCKING Behind-the-Scenes Moment
Nightly told Love Actually director on set that QC card scene was creepy at 17 years old. Tira Nightly admitted in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times that she told Love Actually director Richard Curtis while filming the infamous Qard scene with Andrew Lincoln that it was all quite creepy. Nightly was 17 years old when she was filming the Christmas romance. Both Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl opened in theaters in 2003, turning Nightly into a global star. The Love Actually scene features Lincoln’s character unexpectedly showing up at Nightly’s door with Qards that express his love for her. The cards read, “Let me say without any hope or agenda, just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth. To me, you are perfect.” The moment is complicated by the fact that Nightly’s character’s husband, played by Shiatel Edgio, is inside. Many viewers now consider the moment stalkerish. The slightly stalkerish aspect of it. I do remember that. Nightly said, “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, “But it is quite creepy.” and then having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy. When asked if she felt there was a creep factor to the scene while filming it, Nightly responded, “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 realized I was 17.” Curtis himself admitted to the Independent in 2023 that the scene does read a bit weird all these years later. Although he added, “We didn’t think it was a stalker scene, but if it’s interesting or funny for different reasons now, then you know, God bless our progressive world.
Keira Knightley admitted in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times that she told “Love Actually” director Richard Curtis while filming the infamous cue card scene with Andrew Lincoln that it was all “quite creepy.” Knightley was 17 years old when she was filming the Christmas romance. Both “Love Actually” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” opened in theaters in 2003, turning Knightley into a global star.
The “Love Actually” scene features Lincoln’s character unexpectedly showing up at Knightley’s door with cue cards that express his love for her. The cards read: “Let me say, without any hope or agenda, just because it’s Christmas (and at Christmas you tell the truth) to me you are perfect.” The moment is complicated by the fact that Knightley’s character’s husband (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) is inside. Many viewers now consider the moment stalker-ish.
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