Keira Knightley hasn’t seen Love Actually in 25 years: ‘It doesn’t mean anything to me’

She was only 18 years old when the cult romantic comedy was released. Almost twenty-five years later, the English actress has almost forgotten everything, to the point of no longer even understanding the fans’ references.

It is at the heart of one of the most famous scenes in the history of romantic comedies…

But Keira Knightley obviously kept very few memories of it. Guest of the show Heartthe actress confided that she had not seen Love Actually since her big debut in 2003, when she was only 18 years old. Result: the fans’ references go well over his head.

“I haven’t watched Love Actually since the big premiere party, when I was 18… So I think I’m the person who knows the film the least well on the entire planet! I see that people use a particular expression, and then they say something to me and I understand that they are quoting Love Actually, but I don’t really know what they are referring to. It doesn’t speak to me.”

Keira Knightley recalls that she only spent a week on the set of the film, when she was still a 17-year-old teenager. A fairly brief presence, but which still earned him the opportunity to participate in one of the most memorable sequences of the genre: in Love Actuallyher character, Juliet, has just married Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) when she discovers that Mark (Andrew Lincoln), her husband’s best friend, is in love with her. He declares his love for her using a series of signs, before Peter’s eyes. Juliet responds with a quick kiss before finding her husband.

Andrew Lincoln himself told Entertainment Weekly how simple this scene had seemed to him to perform: “My big scene with the signs in front of the door seemed so easy to me. All I had to do was hold boxes and be in love with Keira Knightley. This is what makes cinema so pure. It’s like a silent film. I understood everything from reading the script. But I kept asking Richard: Are you sure I’m not going to come across as a creepy stalker?

Richard Curtis has since admitted that Mark’s character flirted with a certain limit: “Looking back, I realize that Andrew’s role was borderline. But I think because Andrew was so open and candid, we knew it was going to pass…“