Despite it being an annual Christmas ritual for many, Keira Knightley has famously only watched her hit movie Love Actually once.
Now, she’s shed a bit more light on the viewing and why it leaves her feeling bad when fans talk to her about it.
“You make work and you hope that it will last, and the fact that that’s lasted over 20 years is absolutely extraordinary,” Knightley told UK TV show This Morning.
“It’s a funny thing for me, because if I watch my work, which I often don’t watch them at all, I’ve only seen it once.
“So I saw Love Actually, at the premiere when it came out, I think I was 18 – I haven’t seen it since.
“What’s amazing is people have a relationship with my work that, and they remember it, obviously in a way that I’m kind of going, ‘I don’t remember it. I don’t know what you’re talking about’, but I’m so pleased that, you know, it stays in your life and it still resonates.”
Speaking of the fan interactions, the 40-year-old added that a glazed look falls across her face at those moments.
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“I know that my look on my face goes, ‘Oh, you’re going to ask me a question, and I don’t know the answer’,” she laughed.
Knightley’s previously echoed a similar sentiment to nine.com.au, labelling it “absolutely amazing” that “Love Actually is a part of other people’s Christmases”.
“It’s just this film that sort of grown into this whole… it’s got a whole life of its own, it’s totally lovely,” she said at the Black Doves premiere in London.
The Bend It Like Beckham star also hinted in her latest TV appearance that she hasn’t been asked to be a part of that movie’s sequel, which was announced in July.
Knightley has been making a number of appearances to promote her new children’s book, I Love You Just the Same, which she not only wrote but illustrated.
It all began as a way to get her elder daughter, Edie Righton, to sleep through the night.
After almost six months of drawing pictures every night, Knightley had quite a collection and decided to turn it into something bigger.
The mum-of-two has daughters Edie, 10, and Delilah, six, with her musician husband, James Righton.
When Edie was five-and-a-half she struggled to sleep through the night. Knightley said it was separation anxiety mixed with sibling rivalry after Delilah was born.
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So to help her daughter, Knightley before bed would take a request for something to draw.
Then when Edie woke up in the middle of the night, she’d see the completed drawing on her nightstand as a way to “know I had been thinking about her”.
The Black Doves actress has been drawing for many years as a way of learning her lines, she revealed.
“I love drawing, it’s my hobby, I love it,” Knightley said on This Morning.
“[I find it] very therapeutic and I also do it when I’m learning my lines – because I’m dyslexic, I record all of my lines, I listen to all of my lines and I’m always drawing when I’m listening to my lines.”
Knightley is the latest in a long line of UK celebrities to launch a kid’s book, including Geri Halliwell, Sarah Ferguson and David Walliams.
Responding to criticism about celebrities taking up space in publishing in this way, Knightley said in multiple interviews she has “huge sympathy” but after 25 years in creative industries knows “when opportunity arises, you do have to grab it”.
“It is a completely authentic piece that was happening within my family anyway, so the fact that I could kind of try and make it a bit bigger and spread it to a larger audience, it was just an opportunity I couldn’t say no to,” she said.
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