Love Actually star Andrew Lincoln says he was a "creepy stalker" in the film

Publish Date
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 10:02AM

It has been 14 years since Love Actually first hit theatres, but one actor is still worried that he came across as "creepy" in the film's most iconic scene.

Andrew Lincoln starred as Mark in the romantic comedy. Mark professes his love to his best friends wife Juliet (played by Keira Knightley) with handwritten signs outside her door.

However, Andrew admitted to Entertainment Weekly that rather than romantic, he was concerned that his character would come off as a "creepy stalker".

"In one of the most romantic movies of all time, I got to play the only guy who doesn't get the girl," he told Entertainment Weekly.

"The story is set up like a prism looking at all the different qualities of love. Mine was unrequited. So I got to be this weird stalker guy."

"My big scene in the doorway felt so easy," Andrew continued, "I just had to hold cards and be in love with Keira Knightley. And that was my own handwriting on the cards, thank you for noticing. But I kept saying to Richard (Curtis, the film’s writer-director), 'Are you sure I’m not going to come off as a creepy stalker?'"

Andrew, 43, who now stars in the TV show, The Walking Dead, says he doesn’t think he could get away with the Love Actually scene now that he's older.

"I think it was decided that I looked quite innocent," he explained to EW. "I didn’t have facial hair or wrinkles back then — and I wasn’t starring on a zombie TV show, I didn’t look as, well, creepy as I do now."

 

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