What You Never Knew About Love Actually

Keira Knightley was still a teenager when she began filming "Love Actually," and her adolescence led to a very specific wardrobe choice in one of the film's climactic scenes. In that particular scene, Knightley's character — newlywed Juliet — pays a visit to Mark (Andrew Lincoln), her husband's best friend, who's hopelessly in love with her. In that scene, Juliet wears a big blue hat pulled down on her forehead.

"Do you know why the hat was there? I had a massive spot in the middle of my forehead," Knightley revealed in an interview with BBC Radio 1. "It's funny how you just remember extreme embarrassment," she added, recalling that when she arrived at the studio that morning she felt like she had "another head on my head."

Once everyone on the set had come to comprehend the size and scope of the considerable zit marring her otherwise gorgeous forehead, a low-tech, old-school solution was reached. "It was humongous, so there was no choice but to find a hat to cover it — because there was no lighting or makeup that was going to cover it," Knightley explained.

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