Love Really may need been one of many movies that helped Keira Knightley break via, however she’s revealed that it’s not in her film rotation over the Christmas interval.
The star, who most lately performed undercover murderer Helen Webb within the Netflix spy thriller sequence Black Doves, revealed on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that she’s by no means seen the vacation traditional since its premiere.
On Monday (December 9), Fallon talked about that she was one of many stars of the Richard Curtis-directed film, which he described as “one of many biggest vacation movies of all time,” and requested her if she ever watches it through the vacation season.
“No,” she replied. “I noticed it on the premiere once I was 18, and I’ve by no means seen it since.”
She continued: “That is nothing about Love Really – I don’t actually watch something I do. However I do know that Love Really clearly has turn into this huge factor. And for plenty of individuals, it’s a part of their Christmas. However no, I’ve not seen it since then.”
Fairly, she prefers the 1988 motion film Die Exhausting, regardless of the continuing debate over whether or not or not the Bruce Willis movie, which is ready on Christmas Eve, counts as a Christmas film or not.
In Love Really, Knightley performed Juliet, who’s married to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Peter – and the couple don’t realise that Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who’s Peter’s finest pal, is secretly in love together with her.
On Christmas Eve, Juliet solutions the door to Mark, who has a boombox taking part in a Christmas carol and a variety of cue playing cards, with which he exhibits a message of affection. As he walks away, Juliet runs after him, provides him a kiss, and returns again inside.
Over time, nevertheless, some followers have criticised the scene and described it as “creepy” – significantly as Knightley was simply 17 when she filmed the 2003 movie, with Ejiofor and Lincoln respectively eight and 12 years older than her.
She informed the LA Occasions earlier this month, “The marginally stalkerish side of it – I do keep in mind that. My reminiscence is of Richard [Curtis], who’s now a really pricey pal, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like [in a dramatic whisper], ‘But it surely is fairly creepy.’ After which having to redo it to repair my face to make him appear not creepy.”
Knightley additional famous: “I imply, there was a creep issue on the time, proper? Additionally, I knew I used to be 17. It solely looks as if just a few years in the past that everyone else realised I used to be 17.”
Final yr, Curtis stated that he’d forged any individual older if he was to have made the film right now, whereas he lately described the shoot as a “disaster” that took six months to edit.
In the meantime, Black Doves, which got here out on December 5, at the moment has 94 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes with critics near-universally praising the present. The thriller, which additionally stars Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire, has already been renewed for a second sequence.
For her position, Knightley was nominated for Greatest Actress in a Drama Sequence on the thirtieth Critics’ Selection Awards, and was additionally nominated for Greatest Efficiency in a Tv Sequence – Drama on the 82nd Golden Globe Awards.