Keira Knightley was simply 17 when she starred in Love Really and 22 years on, tens of millions watch the movie each Christmas – however the actress just isn’t one in all them!
Keira Knightley says she’s solely ever watched her iconic Christmas movie Love Really as soon as – and may’t even keep in mind what any of her strains had been.
The 2003 festive rom-com basic wowed audiences throughout the world and the much-loved film impressed one in all this yr’s favorite adverts, as comic Joe Wilkinson and Keira make a connection on the Waitrose cheese counter.
The advert follows Superstar Traitors contestant Joe as Phil, a sorrowful widower who’s being inspired by his associates to maneuver on. Phil’s luck is on the flip as he finally ends up bumping into the movie’s main girl within the retailer, the place they each, in unison, order a tasty Sussex Charmer.
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A cute montage of the unlikely pair falling in love over snowy walks, chess within the pub and biscuit baking quickly follows, and it rapidly struck a chord because the grocery store’s advert resonated with viewers. However Keira, a 17-year-old when Love Really was filmed, clearly wanted to swot up.
The star joined Nick Grimshaw and Michelin star chef Angela Hartnett on the Dish from Waitrose podcast and was requested if she watches it yearly like tens of millions of us do. However she confessed: “I’ve seen it as soon as. When you’re in it, it might be bizarre if, I used to be watching my very own…. yeah!
“Any individual wished me to say [a line from the film], however I hadn’t seen it. So, I used to be like, I do not know what you are speaking about! I realised that there is entire languages which can be occurring. It is really quoting me at me, however I do not realise that.
“That is the issue. I’ve undoubtedly acquired a delete button in my head for each single line that I’ve ever mentioned in any movie that I’ve ever achieved. Actually, as quickly as I’ve achieved the scene, it is gone. Even when I needed to redo the scene, I’ve acquired to relearn it.
“So then when individuals sort of come over and so they get a really specific look on their face after they’re clearly quoting me. I get the look, however I do not know what the road is.”
The 40-year-old, who’s married to musician James Righton, needed to clarify all to her two younger daughters Edie and Delilah about an ungainly on-screen second with funnyman Joe – and detailed how she missed the possibility to get some scorching gossip.
“I do not suppose anyone’s really mentioned I am like Father Christmas earlier than,” she mentioned, quoting the advert. “I believe that was the primary time. So, thanks for that, oh, beautiful Joe. It was solely about an hour earlier than we completed filming that I discovered he was in Traitors.
“So I did not handle to get any gossip in any respect out of him. I used to be simply out of the blue asking him ‘who received?’ He mentioned ‘I’ve signed an NDA. I can not inform you’! He’s so candy. As had been watching Traitors my youngsters stored asking ‘did you kiss him?’
“I used to be like ‘sort of…. we kind of bounced off the beard! We had been each minty contemporary. However like I mentioned, I do not suppose I acquired past the beard. It’s a thick beard. He is acquired such a big beard that I did not get near his mouth!”
* The complete interview with Kiera is on Dish from Waitrose podcast out as we speak.
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