Some think it’s a selfless and romantic move, Mark clearing up any animosity by telling the truth but not hurting his friend, and hopefully managing to move on.

Others think it’s plainly wrong: putting Juliet in the difficult position of lying to her husband just because Mark wants to get something off his chest, initially treating her badly because of his own issues, and cutting Peter out of his own wedding day video in a move that smacks of obsessive behaviour and results in what could easily be a supercut for his own dodgy ends.

In a new interview, Lincoln describes the character as “weird”. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he says: “In one of the most romantic movies of all time, I got to play the only guy who doesn’t get the girl.

“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.”

He adds: “My big scene in the doorway felt so easy. 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 Lincoln always worried that his Love Actually character was “creepy”