Keira Knightley Opens Up About 'Creep Factor' While Filming 'Love Actually'

The “Black Doves” star recalled the ”slightly stalkerish aspect” of one iconic scene — and how she flagged it to director Richard Curtis.

British actor Keira Knightley talked in a new interview about the iconic (and for some, controversial) cue card scene from the holiday classic “Love Actually” and admitted she found it “creepy” while filming.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about her new Netflix series, “Black Doves,” Knightley said she didn’t recall much of her work on the 2003 romantic comedy. She was just 17 and only on set “for about five days,” she explained.

But Knightley said she does remember feeling unsettled when Andrew Lincoln’s Mark silently confesses his love to her character, Juliet ― using the cards outside her home, at night ― while Juliet’s husband, (and Mark’s friend!) Peter (portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor), was unaware upstairs.

“The slightly stalkerish aspect of it — I do remember that,” Knightley told the Times. “I remember [director] Richard [Curtis] saying, ‘No, you’re looking at [Andrew] like he’s creepy,’ and I was like, ‘But it is quite creepy.’ And then having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy.”

Asked if she sensed the “creep factor” at the time, Knightley replied: “There was a creep factor, right? I also knew I was 17 — it only seems like recently that everyone else realized I was 17.”