Actress Keira Knightley revealed that the controversial “Love Actually” cue card scene that sparked debate among rom-com fans and her fellow cast and crew was a “scary and sweet” moment.
Knightley, 39, recalled on Friday how she was recently approached by a group of construction workers and held up cue cards paying homage to the iconic scene from the 2003 holiday film.
“Recently I was stuck in traffic for days and a car full of builders next to me started holding up signals like in the movie,” Knightley said on “The Graham Norton Show.” “It was scary and sweet at the same time, exactly like it was in the movie.”
The controversial scene occurred when hopeless romantic Mark, played by “The Walking Dead” star Andrew Lincoln, professed his love for Knightley’s character Juliet, as did her husband and Mark’s best friend Peter, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. , was sitting in the next room.
In the twice Golden Globe-nominated film, Mark arrives at the couple’s door and uses a cue card to confess his love to Juliet while playing the song “Silent Night” under the guise of Christmas carolers.
The large love notes read in part, “I say, without any expectations or agenda, just because it’s Christmas (and at Christmas you tell the truth) to me you are perfect.”
The film’s director, Richard Curtis, later admitted that the scene was unusual in the hit holiday film.
“I think it’s a little weird,” explained Curtis. Independent In 2023. “We didn’t think it was a chase scene. But if it’s interesting or funny for different reasons 1732955612 Then, you know, God bless our progressive world.
However, Knightley’s co-star Martine McCutchen said she “doesn’t think it’s scary at all.'”
“I think people do crazy things when they’re in love,” McCutcheon said. Digital Spy in 2020. “She had a moment where she thought ‘That’s enough, I’ve told her how I feel, I love my friend too but I have to get it off my chest properly.’
“She’s already seen the video, and I think this was her way of explaining things and making her comfortable.”
Even fans have mixed feelings.
“The cue card guy is very scary. He believes that they cannot be together, but for some reason he decided to wait until they are married [to confess his love],” one fan wrote on Reddit.
Another viewer commented, “In the context of the movie, what he did wasn’t scary.” The theme is that love, as much as we want to believe in it, is not something we choose, it is much more powerful than that. “We would love to be able to choose who we love and who loves us back, but it doesn’t really work that way.”
“Pride and Prejudice” star Married to British musician Jamie RightonThey met in early 2011 after being introduced to each other by a mutual friend during a dinner party and tied the knot in 2013. They have two daughters, Edie and Delilah.
