In a brand new interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, Knightley mentioned very similar to audiences, she too has come to see her Love Truly cue card scene with Mark (Andrew Lincoln) as “fairly creepy.” In actual fact, she thought that whereas they had been filming.

“The marginally stalkerish facet of it — I do do not forget that,” Knightley informed the Occasions of the best way Mark selected profess his love for her character Juliet once they had been filming. “My reminiscence is of [director] Richard [Curtis], who’s now a really pricey buddy, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you are taking a look at [Lincoln] like he is creepy,’ and I am like [in a dramatic whisper], ‘However it’s fairly creepy.’ After which having to redo it to repair my face to make him appear not creepy.”

Within the 2003 movie, Juliet marries Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as his finest buddy Mark movies the ceremony. After Juliet discovers that Mark solely filmed her throughout the reception, he finally ends up professing his love for her with a collection of cue playing cards exterior their home, unbeknownst to Peter, who thinks its simply carolers on the door.

Knightley additionally addressed the age hole between her and her on-screen love curiosity, which has additionally garnered criticism in recent times; the actress was 17, whereas Lincoln and Ejiofor, in the meantime, had been 30 and 26, respectively.

“I imply, there was a creep issue on the time, proper? Additionally, I knew I used to be 17,” she famous. “It solely looks as if a number of years in the past that everyone else realized I used to be 17.”

Knightley, whose function within the movie got here after her breakout success in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean, additionally spoke on the the “large value” that got here with encountering fame at such a younger age.

The now 39-year-old mentioned she was “stalked by males” following the success of the Disney movie, and what’s worse, is she was informed she deserved the unhealthy conduct.

“It is very brutal to have your privateness taken away in your teenage years, early 20s, and to be put beneath that scrutiny at some extent if you find yourself nonetheless rising,” Knightley informed the Occasions. “Having mentioned that, I would not have the monetary stability or the profession that I do now with out that interval. I had a five-year interval between the age of 17 and 21-ish, and I am by no means going to have that form of success once more. It completely set me up for all times. Did it come at a value? Sure, it did. It got here at a giant price.”

She mentioned that the conduct she incurred was typically so “surprising” that her “jaw dropped at time” over how she was handled by the general public and “I did not suppose it was okay on the time. I used to be very clear on it being completely surprising. There was an quantity of gaslighting to be informed by a load of males that ‘you wished this.’ It was rape converse. , ‘That is what you deserve.’ It was a really violent, misogynistic environment.”

“They very particularly meant I wished to be stalked by males,” Knightley continued. “Whether or not that was stalking as a result of any individual was mentally sick, or as a result of folks had been incomes cash from it — it felt the identical to me. It was a brutal time to be a younger lady within the public eye.”

Social media additionally performed a job, Knightley mentioned, including that plenty of younger starlets do not survive being shamed publicly at such a younger age.

“Social media has put that in a complete different context, while you take a look at the harm that is been completed to younger girls, to teenage women. Finally, that is what fame is — it is being publicly shamed,” she defined. “Loads of teenage women do not survive that.”

Knightley, who has earned two Oscar nominations over the course of her profession to date, mentioned these early years additionally got here noticed her craft criticized, which the press calling her a “unhealthy” actor throughout the course of her Pirates run.

“It is a humorous factor when you’ve got one thing that was making and breaking you on the identical time,” Knightley mentioned. “I used to be seen as shit due to them, and but as a result of they did so effectively I used to be given the chance to do the movies that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for. They had been probably the most profitable movies I am going to ever be part of they usually had been the explanation that I used to be taken down publicly. So they are a very confused place in my head.”