Skip to main content

Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Why trust us?

Keira Knightley knew that Love Actually cue card scene was creepy from the jump

Andrew Lincoln holds ip cue card in Love Actually.
StudioCanal

There are plenty of things about Love Actually that haven’t aged well. Most people who watch the movie today, though, agree that near the top of that list is a scene where Andrew Lincoln shows up at Keira Knightley’s character’s door and pretends to be carolers while showing her cue cards that confess his love. Knightley was just 17 years old when she was filming the scene and admitted in a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times that she told director Richard Curtis it was “creepy.”

“The slightly stalker-ish aspect of it — I do remember that,” Knightley 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.”

Love Actually | Cards on the Doorstep

The actress, who filmed Pirates of the Caribbean that same year, was then asked if she felt creeped out by the scene while she was filming it.

Recommended Videos

“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,” she said.

Please enable Javascript to view this content

Curtis himself admitted the scene had aged strangely during an interview with The Independent in 2023 but said the creep factor was not intentional. “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,” he said.

Joe Allen
Joe Allen is a freelance writer at Digital Trends, where he covers Movies and TV. He frequently writes streaming…
Helldivers 2 film, Ghost of Tsushima anime, and more teased at CES 2025
Sony Pictures executives stand in front of key art for Ghost of Tsushima: Legends.

PlayStation Productions showed up big at CES 2025. We not only got new looks at the second season of The Last of Us and the Until Dawn film, both of which will be released this April, but also received confirmation of some other new video game adaptations during a Sony press conference.

The first adaptation to be shown off was Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, a new anime series by Crunchyroll and Aniplex. It's based on the multiplayer mode of Ghost of Tsushima, which is getting a sequel later this year in Ghost of Yotei. A press release from Crunchyroll also confirms that the series will premiere on Crunchyroll in 2027. It is directed by Takanobu Mizumo, written by Gen Urobuchi, and will feature a soundtrack curated by Sony Music.

Read more
Is Will Smith about to star in The Matrix 5?
Will Smith stands against a barrel in Wild Wild West.

One of Hollywood's biggest sliding doors moments involves Will Smith turning down the role of Neo in The Matrix. Judging by his recent Instagram post, Smith might get another shot in the battle of man versus machine.

Smith posted a cryptic message on his Instagram. "In 1997, the Wachowskis offered Will Smith the role of Neo in The Matrix," the message reads. "Smith turned it down. He chose Wild Wild West, believing it was a better fit for him at the time. But the question remains: What would The Matrix have been like with Will Smith as Neo? Wake up, Will. The Matrix has you..."

Read more
3 rom-coms on Netflix you need to watch in January 2025
Julia Roberts sits at a table with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill.

Welcome to 2025. Christmas rom-coms are no longer in vogue, though feel free to continue watching Lindsay Lohan movies if your heart desires. The new selection of rom-coms in January is fairly light, an expected outcome after the holiday months provided a new crop of Christmas romances.

Nevertheless, there is still a stable of reliable rom-coms on Netflix. Take Notting Hill, for example. It's one of the iconic rom-coms from the golden era of the 1990s with two undeniable stars. Notting Hill is one of our recommendations this month. Other picks include a 1980s teen comedy and a wedding adventure.

Read more