--- title: Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Disturbed by Audience description: She received a surprise from an audience member canonical: https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-02T18:09:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:04.112Z og:title: Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Interrupted by Marriage Proposal og:description: A night to remember og:url: https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdf2d6688cdfa960/698866b1bc6cfcbeba3d9bbb/keira-knightley.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Keira Knightley at the Roundabout Theater Company's 50th Anniversary Season Party in New York City on Sept. 10, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Interrupted by Marriage Proposal twitter:description: A night to remember twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdf2d6688cdfa960/698866b1bc6cfcbeba3d9bbb/keira-knightley.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Interrupted by Marriage Proposal ## Video: Ethan Hawke on Why Being Pretentious is Okay [Watch (HLS stream): Ethan Hawke on Why Being Pretentious is Okay](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/annrQOUO.m3u8) (3:14)  _Published 2015-03-12. "I've been accused of being pretentious my whole life, rightfully so," says Ethan Hawke. The actor reflects on the course of his career and discusses his new documentary "Seymour," which focuses on the virtue of stepping out of the limelight_ by [Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly Oct 2, 2015 6:09 PM UTC  Keira Knightley at the Roundabout Theater Company's 50th Anniversary Season Party in New York City on Sept. 10, 2015. Keira Knightley at the Roundabout Theater Company's 50th Anniversary Season Party in New York City on Sept. 10, 2015.Bruce Glikas—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly Oct 2, 2015 6:09 PM UTC Not even movie stars are safe from the unpredictability of live theater. Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley made her Broadway debut Thursday in the first performance of Helen Edmundson’s _Thérèse Raquin_, but unfortunately, she didn’t get very far before she was interrupted by a disgruntled audience member. According to [witness accounts from E! News](http://www.eonline.com/news/702354/keira-knightley-s-broadway-debut-interrupted-by-man-screaming-i-love-you-and-throwing-a-bouquet-of-flowers), the man shouted things at Knightley such as, “Keira, none of this is real!” followed by “will you marry me?” from the balcony. He was eventually escorted out by security, but not before throwing a very large (and apparently very heavy) bouquet of flowers onstage.While Knightley may not have taken [the Patti LuPone approach](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/09/patti-lupone-snatches-phone-texter-mid-performance) to shutting down an audience member, she remained calm and professional. After a brief intermission, the show resumed as planned.Studio 54 did not return EW’s request for comment. _Thérèse Raquin_ officially opens on Broadway Oct. 29. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/02/keira-knightley-broadway) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Disturbed by Audience ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/"},"headline":"Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Interrupted by Marriage Proposal","datePublished":"2015-10-02T18:09:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:04.112Z","description":"A night to remember","url":"https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","broadway","Theater","celebrity","Keira Knightley"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdf2d6688cdfa960/698866b1bc6cfcbeba3d9bbb/keira-knightley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrea Towers / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdf2d6688cdfa960/698866b1bc6cfcbeba3d9bbb/keira-knightley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Keira Knightley at the Roundabout Theater Company's 50th Anniversary Season Party in New York City on Sept. 10, 2015.","caption":"Keira Knightley at the Roundabout Theater Company's 50th Anniversary Season Party in New York City on Sept. 10, 2015.","creditText":"Bruce Glikas—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4059860/keira-knightley-broadway-debut/","name":"Keira Knightley's Broadway Debut Interrupted by Marriage Proposal"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ethan Hawke on Why Being Pretentious is Okay","description":"\"I've been accused of being pretentious my whole life, rightfully so,\" says Ethan Hawke. 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