Keira Knightley does not get your Love Actually references

We have to assume this is an occurrence that starts to happen more often every year around this time, and Knightley is gracious about the love that people have for the film. “I mean, I quite like that it has this life, this, such a big life out there,” she says. But still, that doesn’t change the fact that “I was only on it for a week. It was a week when I was 17. So I don’t remember it really.” And Knightley seems to have done a pretty good job of avoiding it since; for example, she was absent from a 2022 reunion celebrating the film, which included actors like Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, and Laura Linney. She also reflected on the film during a 2024 interview with the Los Angeles Times, saying also at that time that she didn’t really remember filming much of it. However, when the conversion turned to the famous cue-card scene, she said, “The slightly stalkerish aspect of it — I do remember that.”