• Keira Knightley said she hasn't watched "Love Actually" since attending the premiere in 2003.
• She said on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" that she doesn't like watching her own films.
• Instead, she said her favorite Christmas movie is "Die Hard."

"Love Actually" is one of the most successful Christmas movies ever, but Keira Knightley, who starred in it, hasn't seen the festive rom-com in years.

Knightley rose to fame after playing Juliet in the film, a character who discovers that her husband's best friend, the best man at their wedding, secretly loves her.

Knightley said on Monday's episode of "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" that she hadn't seen "Love Actually" since attending the premiere at 18.

"This is nothing about 'Love Actually.' I don't really watch anything I do," Knightley said. "But I know that 'Love Actually' obviously has become this massive thing. And for lots of people, it's part of their Christmas."

Many actors, including Emma Stone, Adam Driver, and Meryl Streep, have said that they don't like or have avoided watching films they have starred in.

Knightley isn't even the only "Love Actually" actor who's avoided watching the movie again. Joanna Page, Knightley's costar in "Love Actually," also said on "Loose Women" in 2022 that she had only watched the film once.

According to The Metro, Page said it was "utterly traumatic" watching it at a film festival in Cardiff, Wales, with her then-boyfriend and her parents.

"Because I don't like watching myself at the best of times, and then also I don't particularly like watching myself naked on cinema screens," Page said. "So it was really, really weird."

When asked on "The Tonight Show " what her favorite Christmas film was, Knightley said "Die Hard," which led to laughter and applause from the crowd.

For years, fans have debated whether "Die Hard" should count as a Christmas movie because, as an action movie, it doesn't fit the mold of other films in that genre.

However, the film is set on Christmas Eve and features plenty of Christmas references.

Host Jimmy Fallon quickly changed the subject before a debate could start on the show.

Knightley was actually on the talk show to promote another project set in London during the Christmas season. Her new Netflix series, the spy thriller "Black Doves," premiered last week and landed Knightley a Golden Globe nomination.

• "Love Actually" came out in 2003, but fans still may not have noticed these details and Easter eggs.
• Jamie's novel pages look mostly blank, and Natalie misspells Christmas in her holiday card.
• After being mentioned twice, Claudia Schiffer makes a cameo at the end of the movie. 

"Love Actually" (2003) is a star-studded Christmas movie featuring major actors from Keira Knightley and Hugh Grant to Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson. 

However, even superfans of the holiday film may not have caught these "Love Actually" Easter eggs. 

Only some members of the prime minister's staff have ID cards.

When the prime minister shows up for his first day of work, some of the people he walks by have ID cards, but others don't.

It appears that anyone visiting him or on his security team has a badge clipped to their top, but the members of his house staff don't.

Harry's office is decorated with things from his family.

Although his morality is called into question throughout the film as he's tempted by his assistant, Mia, in his first scene, Harry is introduced as a family man.

In his office, there's a wall of family photos and pictures that seem to have been drawn by his children. 

Sam has a variety of stickers on his bedroom door, along with a chalkboard that he uses during the movie.

Daniel and his stepson Sam grow closer throughout the movie, but at the start of the film, Sam hides away in his room.

His bedroom door is decorated with stickers and a chalkboard, which he uses to tell Daniel to leave him alone. But he writes different messages on it later in the film. 

Some of the stickers say "Don't drop anything, you won't find it again" and "If your name's not Sam, you're not getting in."

Most of the pages Jamie's working on appear to be blank.

When Jamie is working on his book outside by the lake, most of the pages that fly away as Aurelia lifts his cup seem to be blank.

There's a handful with words typed on them, but even the piece of paper in his typewriter looks like it's empty at the top.

The lake Aurelia and Jamie "swim" in was less than a foot deep.

When Aurelia and Jamie go to grab his book pages out of the lake, they struggle to swim around.

There are some moments where Jamie is clearly just laying on his back, doing more floating than swimming.

The awkward swimming is probably because of how shallow the water was. Director Richard Curtis told Montclair Film in 2016 that it was actually just 11 inches deep.

When the US president visits the prime minister, he inexplicably has Washington-state license plates.

When the president arrives at Downing Street, his car can be seen pulling into the gates.

The black car has American flags on the side of it, but it doesn't have the proper government plates that are on the real president's car, Cadillac One or "The Beast."

The license plates shown on the car in the film aren't even for Washington DC, they're for Washington state. 

The dolls that Karen insults are actually Ken dolls.

Karen holds up two dolls that she's gift wrapping for her daughter's classmates and insults both of their looks.

They appear to actually be male Ken dolls restyled and dressed in drag before being packaged in unlabeled boxes. 

Mark turns the television off immediately after the announcer says not to.

Mark is watching a Billy Mack interview on TV before Juliet comes over.

He grabs the remote and shuts the television off immediately after the TV announcer says, "Do not switch off!"

Sarah's clock changes inconsistently when she's in her room with Karl.

When Sarah and Karl are in Sarah's bedroom, a small clock can be seen on the nightstand to the left of her bed.

When the couple is first in her room, the clock reads five minutes to 12. But later in the scene, the clock goes back in time to about 10 minutes to 12.

One of the few non-Billy Mack items in Joe's home is a "Jaws" poster.

Billy Mack's manager, Joe, has a ton of the singer's memorabilia in his home.

There are Billy Mack posters and pictures all around, including one poster that shows an album cover titled "Moments of Madness."

One of the few posters in Joe's home that doesn't feature his rock-star client is a large "Jaws" one.

Natalie spells Christmas wrong in her holiday card.

Natalie confesses her feelings for the prime minister in a Christmas card.

She writes about being sorry about what happened and ends by saying that she's his.

The letter is a nice romantic gesture, but there's a pretty big spelling error — Christmas is missing its "r."

John and Judy wear the same outfits on their date and the next day at the play.

When John and Judy go on a date the day before the Christmas play, John is wearing a green jacket and dark pants and Judy is wearing a floral skirt with a pink top and pink jacket.

When they show up at the play the next day, the couple is wearing the exact same outfits they had on the night before — perhaps implying that the date went very well. 

Claudia Schiffer's name is mentioned as a joke twice before she appears in the movie.

While he's giving the eulogy, Daniel mentions that his late wife jokingly suggested he bring German model Claudia Schiffer as his date to her funeral.

Schiffer's name is brought up again when Sam asks Daniel about his love life.

At the end of the movie, Schiffer actually appears on screen as Carol, the mother of Sam's schoolmate, and she and Daniel immediately hit it off.

A background ad for an Apple product dates the film.

During the final airport scenes, Billy Mack stands in front of an ad for "the new iMac."

It's for the iMac G4, which debuted in January 2002.

The movie didn't come out until 2003, so the ad was probably a bit dated even then. 

This story was originally published in December 2021 and most recently updated on December 10, 2024. 

• Keira Knightley recalled how she was told that she "wanted to be stalked" early in her career.
• Knightley became famous after starring in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Love Actually" in 2003.
• Now, she's opening up about how toxic Hollywood was for women in the early 2000s.

Keira Knightley was told she "wanted to be stalked" at the beginning of her career. The actor spoke about the "violent, misogynistic atmosphere" of Hollywood in the 2000s in an interview on Thursday.

The British actor became famous after landing roles in "Love Actually" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in 2003 at 17-years-old. As a result, Knightley spent her late teens and early 20s under the press's microscope.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times ahead of her new Netflix series, "Black Doves," Knightley recalled being told that she "wanted to be stalked" during her rise to fame.

In response to a question by the LA Times reporter about the culture of Hollywood back then, Knightley said, "I didn't think it was okay at the time. I was very clear on it being absolutely shocking. There was an amount of gaslighting to be told by a load of men that 'you wanted this.' It was rape speak. You know, 'This is what you deserve.'"

Knightley continued to paint a picture of the negative atmosphere in early 2000s Hollywood that women had to navigate.

She added, "It was a very violent, misogynistic atmosphere. They very specifically meant I wanted to be stalked by men. Whether that was stalking because somebody was mentally ill, or because people were earning money from it — it felt the same to me. It was a brutal time to be a young woman in the public eye."

The star is also conscious that despite the harassment and pressure she faced, her early work gave her "financial stability."

"It's very brutal to have your privacy taken away in your teenage years, early 20s, and to be put under that scrutiny at a point when you are still growing. Having said that, I wouldn't have the financial stability or the career that I do now without that period," she said.

Keira Knightley was 17 when she first starting filming the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise in 2003. She played Elizabeth Swann, the point of a love triangle opposite Orlando Bloom, who was 26 at the time, and Johnny Depp who was 22 years Knightley's senior.

She of said the five-year period of success in her early career, "It totally set me up for life. Did it come at a cost? Yes, it did. It came at a big cost."

The thing that got the actor through her turbulent era of fame was having people around her who were disconnected from Hollywood.

She added, "I had a separate life from the industry, and I've maintained that."

This isn't the first time that Knightley has opened up about the toxicity she endured at a young age.

In November, she recalled how her role in "Pirates of the Caribbean" was the main reason she was "taken down publicly."

In 2018, Knightley told The Hollywood Reporter that paparazzi constantly followed her because they wanted to tear her down.

"It was big money to get pictures of women falling apart because you [consumers] wanted them to be sexy, but you wanted to punish them for that sexuality," she said.

• Bill Nighy's career surged after starring in the 2003 film "Love Actually."
• Nighy said that his compensation increased, and he no longer had to audition for projects.
• He now stars in the Netflix film "Joy," about the first IVF baby.

Acclaimed actor Bill Nighy says that his moderately successful career blew up — in a good way — after he starred in the 2003 Christmas film "Love Actually."

Nighy starred in the Richard Curtis film as Billy Mack, a legendary rock and roll artist trying to get a No. 1 single on Christmas. "Love Actually" was a smash hit, and though Nighy was over 30 years into his acting career, the film revitalized it.

"The biggest developments were that what I was paid for a job quintupled and I never had to audition again," he told British newspaper The i. "If you asked any actor what their top five things to wish for, one of them would be, 'Please don't let me have to audition any more.'"

Nighy had starred in two other successful projects that year: "Underworld," a monster film in which he played a vampire, and "State of Play," a BBC One drama. He was "doing alright" career-wise at the time, he told The i, but 2003 proved to be a turning point. Suddenly, the balance of power had shifted in his meetings for potential roles.

"They were trying to get me to do the job," he told The i. "I didn't have to sing for my supper."

These days, Nighy is starring in the Netflix film "Joy," which tells the story of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown. He plays Patrick Steptoe, the director of the Centre for Human Reproduction and part of the team that developed IVF treatment.

And while the success of "Love Actually" changed his working prospects, Nighy says that it hasn't drastically disrupted his day-to-day life.

"I'm not mobbed or anything. There's no great heat attached. I'm not Hugh Grant, or Tom Cruise," he told The i. "It takes 30 seconds and people are kind. They often want to talk about that film that I did, even though they can't always remember it."