Director Richard Curtis had to remind her not to let those true feelings show while the cameras were rolling.
Knightley said she responded by whispering, “‘But itisquite creepy.’
Alas, Knightley’s facial expression couldn’t save Mark from the effects of time.

Keira Knightley in ‘Love Actually’.Universal/Everett
But Knightley was ahead of the curve.
“I knew I was 17.
It only seems like a few years ago thateverybodyelserealized I was 17.”

Andrew Lincoln in ‘Love Actually’.Universal/courtesy Everett Collection
“He is a stalker,“Lincoln stated in 2016.
And he said, No, no.
Not with you playing it, darling.
Universal/courtesy Everett Collection
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“Ithink it’s a bit weird.”
And then I was, like, educated in it.”