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**KeiraLover** · 02-13-2008, 10:43 PM

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**KeiraLover** · 02-29-2008, 10:01 PM

Keira Knightley: 'I Love Bjork And Bonham Carter's Style'

Keira KnightleyBritish actress Keira Knightley is desperate to take her style cues from Bjork and Helena Bonham Carter - but doesn't yet have the confidence to emulate their outlandish tastes.

The Atonement star is keen on being in the limelight for her choice of outfits and cites the unique fashion sense of singer Bjork and actress Bonham Carter as her style icons. She says, "I don't think I'm confident enough yet to be used to being in the limelight because of my style. But I loved the swan dress Bjork wore to the 2001 Oscars. I'd love to have the courage to do the same." Bjork

And Knightley reserves high praise for Bonham Carter: "Helena wears whatever she wants and looks amazing."

Source

**KeiraLover** · 03-02-2008, 10:10 PM

According to “Ohnotheydidnt” Keira’s green dress (Atonement) has sold for $46,000.00.

Here is a small clip of Keira talking about the costuming and the special green dress. Click.

Proceeds from the auction benefit Variety - The Children’s Charity of Southern California.

**KeiraLover** · 03-02-2008, 10:14 PM

Fox finds it uneasy to get sexual with Keira

Actor LAURENCE FOX agonised over filming 2001's THE HOLE with KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - because he had to act out a love scene with then then-teenage star. The 29-year-old, who made his professional debut in the British thriller, felt uneasy getting intimate with Knightley, and his hesitation even prompted director Nick Hamm to question his sexuality. He recalls, "She was really clever. That's what I remember about her - and that I had to sort of slightly molest her at some point in the film and feeling really uncomfortable about doing it, because she was 15 and I was 23. "The director asked me if I was gay and was that the problem, and I was just like, 'No, that's not the problem: I just feel a bit like I'm molesting one of my little brother's friends.'"

Source

**Bill5461** · 03-03-2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by KeiraLover

Keira Knightley: 'I Love Bjork And Bonham Carter's Style'

Source

Well, hopefully not ALL of her style

**Plastic Flute** · 04-02-2008, 11:49 PM

Hi Keira guys. Do any of you know the name of the actor that played opposite Keira in Atonement? He is a Scott right ?

**KeiraLover** · 04-03-2008, 12:15 AM

James McAvoy. And yes he is. =)

**KeiraLover** · 05-11-2008, 08:23 PM

Keiraweb has announced that Natalie Portman has dropped out of Wuthering Heights. Keira was originally considered for the role but due to her 'taking a break' she didn't do it. However there are high hopes that Keira will come back from her break to save the film. Let's hope.

**MSFixR** · 05-11-2008, 08:47 PM

I presume Portman was going to play the part of Cathy. Who was cast for the role of Heathcliff

**KeiraLover** · 05-25-2008, 10:13 PM

Knightleys Funny seduction

Keira Knightley says the best way to get her into bed is to make her laugh.

The actress - who stars in upcoming movie ‘The Edge of Love’, which is about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas - finds a good sense of humour very attractive in a man.

She said: “I think people get laughed into bed, don’t they?”

Although Keira doesn’t think the late Dylan Thomas was a good looking man, she can understand why women were attracted to him because of his wonderful poetry.

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actress - who stars opposite Matthew Rhys, who portrays Dylan, in the movie - explained to Total Film magazine: “Dylan Thomas did s**g around but you look at pictures of him and he was no hunk. However, his poetry is extraordinary. He’s a mischief-maker, a puck. He just wants to prod and see what happens.

“There is a spirit and a sexiness to Matthew Rhys’ Dylan that’s quite dangerous because you know he’s a s**t. But that doesn’t mean he’s not attractive. Do you think only nice blokes get girls into bed?”

Source

Really? Rupert doesn't seem like he's a funny guy...

**KeiraLover** · 07-06-2008, 09:16 PM

Magazine Watch

Keira will be featured in the US edition of September’s Vogue! According to this.

I’ll have to pick up a couple of copies.

**Bill5461** · 07-08-2008, 06:37 AM

You know where to post the pics

**KeiraLover** · 07-13-2008, 12:41 PM

Keira's Mom: "I don't mind if strips on-screen"

Keira Knightley’s mom isn’t fussed if her daughter strips-off for the cameras.

Playwright Sharman Macdonald — who worked with Keira on hit film The Edge Of Love — revealed she didn’t bat an eyelid when her daughter peeled off for a romp.

She said, “Keira stripping and taking part in nude sex scenes doesn’t bother me.

“It might bother some mothers - but not me.”

Keira, 23, recently revealed that she has no qualms about appearing in the buff, insisting nudity has even become a habit of hers.

She said, “I always bare my breasts. It’s not like it’s only in this film!”

So when Edge Of Love filmmaker John Maybury requested her to remove her bra, she was happy to oblige: “I said, ‘All right then.’

“It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.”

source

**KeiraLover** · 07-17-2008, 10:20 PM

Emma Thompson will pen the remake of My Fair Lady.

The Columbia Pictures project, which Keira Knightley is circling, is a remake of the 1964 movie musical starring Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl-turned socialite Eliza Doolittle. In turn, the film was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.

Thompson told Parade that writing the film will take a long time because she does not use a word processor.

"I'm a Luddite, and I write longhand with an old fountain pen," she said.

Thompson is the only person to have won Oscars for both acting (1992's Howard's End) and screenwriting (1995's Sense And Sensibility).

Source

**Bill5461** · 07-18-2008, 07:32 AM

It's very rare that I'm attracted to a musical

**KeiraLover** · 07-28-2008, 11:56 AM

Keira Knightley refuses breast enhancement for 'The Duchess'

We’ll always have “King Arthur.”

Keira Knightley has refused to allow any enhancement of her cleavage on publicity photos for her upcoming movie, “The Duchess,” Britain’s Daily Mail reports.

Studio heads reportedly want to enlarge Knightley’s bosom in the photos, but the actress, 23, put her foot down.

“She has insisted that her figure stay in its natural state,” an insider said. “She is proud of her body and doesn’t want it altered.”

This isn’t the first time Knightley has faced this dilemma. The actress drew negative attention in 2004 with her larger-than-usual breasts in publicity stills for “King Arthur.”

“Those things certainly weren’t mine,” Fox News quoted her as saying in 2006. According to Knightley, the studio marketing team was behind her suddenly C-cup breasts, but gave her final approval on the photos.

“I was like, ‘OK, fine. I honestly don’t give a s—,’” she recalled.

Knightley has expressed dissatisfaction with her small bustline. “I would love to have [breasts]!” she told Britain’s GMTV last year, adding, “I’m never going to get [them]. I’m naturally who I am.”

While she’s a fan of going au naturale in “The Duchess,” Knightley looks “flat-chested in the whole movie,” the source says.
Source

Then why does she always complain she wants bigger tits?

**Bill5461** · 07-29-2008, 06:49 AM

Good for her

**KeiraLover** · 08-02-2008, 12:11 AM

Keira has chip on her shoulder for missing out on University

The Oscar-nominated star of Atonement and Pride And Prejudice now battles to prove to herself - and those around her - that she has brains.

“I am completely uneducated,” said Knightley, 23. “Not going to university did give me an incredible driving force because it leaves you with a slight chip on your shoulder. It makes me feel I am going to read absolutely everything so I can prove that I am not stupid.”

Her current reading list is an impressive library which includes a biography of Albert Speer, a history of the Vietnam War, the treatises of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine Greer’s feminist text The Female Eunuch.

To add to her difficulties, Keira was diagnosed with dyslexia aged six and as a result can read only very slowly, she told Tatler magazine.

The actress dropped out of school at 17, before taking her A-levels, after landing her breakthrough role as Lara in a television adaptation of Doctor Zhivago. She found stardom that same year in Bend It Like Beckham and went on to play Guinevere in King Arthur, Cecilia Tallis in Atonement and Dylan Thomas’s lover Vera Phillips in The Edge of Love, as well as the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies. She recently signed up to play Cordelia in a film version of King Lear.

Her next ambition is to appear on stage, but she will not be taking a starry role in the West End: “I can’t quite handle the idea of ‘Screen Actress in Big West End Hit’ and all that. I would prefer to do something smaller,” she said, confessing to a constant fear that her acting is not up to scratch. “Everything scares me. The idea of doing theatre scares me in an exciting way but doing any part always terrifies me… It boils down to a fear of standing there in a wig and a dress and suddenly thinking, ‘I feel like an idiot.’ You must not let your imagination see the absurdity of it and cause your performance to die.”

While Knightley failed to complete her education, many of her fellow actresses have combined career success with university degrees. Rachel Weisz and Thandie Newton studied at Cambridge, while Kate Beckinsale, Emilia Fox and Emily Mortimer are Oxford graduates.

Among those who did not go on to university, Kate Winslet shares Knightley’s feelings, admitting to feeling “intellectually insecure” in the company of more educated actors.

Knightley and her boyfriend, actor Rupert Friend, are regular targets for the paparazzi. She said: “I am told by a lot of the paparazzi who follow me that they are helping my career but, by that logic, Paris Hilton should be the biggest box office catch in the world and she isn’t.”

Knightley will next be seen as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in The Duchess, an adaptation of Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography. Georgiana was a celebrated 18th century beauty and ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose personal life scandalised Georgian England.

“I saw Georgiana as this courageous person who was in a marriage that was like a cage dropped on top of her, forcing her to fight her way out. The film is also partly about the power of female manipulation, which was then a woman’s only weapon,” she said. The script includes a harrowing rape scene with Ralph Fiennes, who plays her promiscuous husband. Knightley described it as “very shocking”, adding that she had learned “some 18th-century swear words” to lend the scene authenticity.

The film will premiere in September and Knightley is already being tipped for her second Oscar nomination.

:: The full interview is in the new issue of Tatler, on sale Thursday.

Source

**Bill5461** · 08-02-2008, 07:08 AM

Well, nothing is stopping her from completing her education now.

**KeiraLover** · 08-02-2008, 10:55 PM

Tell me about it. She's got enough money to cover everything and STILL not work while going to school. That's every kids dream.

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KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	According to “Ohnotheydidnt” Keira’s green dress (Atonement) has sold for $46,000.00. Here is a small clip of Keira talking about the costuming and the special green dress. Click. Proceeds from the auction benefit Variety - The Children’s Charity of Southern California. Last edited by KeiraLover; 03-02-2008 at 10:11 PM..

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KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Keira Knightley: 'I Love Bjork And Bonham Carter's Style' Keira KnightleyBritish actress Keira Knightley is desperate to take her style cues from Bjork and Helena Bonham Carter - but doesn't yet have the confidence to emulate their outlandish tastes. The Atonement star is keen on being in the limelight for her choice of outfits and cites the unique fashion sense of singer Bjork and actress Bonham Carter as her style icons. She says, "I don't think I'm confident enough yet to be used to being in the limelight because of my style. But I loved the swan dress Bjork wore to the 2001 Oscars. I'd love to have the courage to do the same." Bjork And Knightley reserves high praise for Bonham Carter: "Helena wears whatever she wants and looks amazing." Source

03-02-2008, 10:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Fox finds it uneasy to get sexual with Keira Actor LAURENCE FOX agonised over filming 2001's THE HOLE with KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - because he had to act out a love scene with then then-teenage star. The 29-year-old, who made his professional debut in the British thriller, felt uneasy getting intimate with Knightley, and his hesitation even prompted director Nick Hamm to question his sexuality. He recalls, "She was really clever. That's what I remember about her - and that I had to sort of slightly molest her at some point in the film and feeling really uncomfortable about doing it, because she was 15 and I was 23. "The director asked me if I was gay and was that the problem, and I was just like, 'No, that's not the problem: I just feel a bit like I'm molesting one of my little brother's friends.'" Source

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Plastic Flute ICHiBAN HoOT Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 16,766 My Profile	Hi Keira guys. Do any of you know the name of the actor that played opposite Keira in Atonement? He is a Scott right ?

04-03-2008, 12:15 AM	#7 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	James McAvoy. And yes he is. =)

05-11-2008, 08:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Keiraweb has announced that Natalie Portman has dropped out of Wuthering Heights. Keira was originally considered for the role but due to her 'taking a break' she didn't do it. However there are high hopes that Keira will come back from her break to save the film. Let's hope.

05-11-2008, 08:47 PM	#9 (permalink)
MSFixR Moderate Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dante's Inferno, Circle 5 Posts: 13,278 My Profile	I presume Portman was going to play the part of Cathy. Who was cast for the role of Heathcliff

05-25-2008, 10:13 PM	#10 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Knightleys Funny seduction Keira Knightley says the best way to get her into bed is to make her laugh. The actress - who stars in upcoming movie ‘The Edge of Love’, which is about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas - finds a good sense of humour very attractive in a man. She said: “I think people get laughed into bed, don’t they?” Although Keira doesn’t think the late Dylan Thomas was a good looking man, she can understand why women were attracted to him because of his wonderful poetry. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actress - who stars opposite Matthew Rhys, who portrays Dylan, in the movie - explained to Total Film magazine: “Dylan Thomas did sg around but you look at pictures of him and he was no hunk. However, his poetry is extraordinary. He’s a mischief-maker, a puck. He just wants to prod and see what happens. “There is a spirit and a sexiness to Matthew Rhys’ Dylan that’s quite dangerous because you know he’s a st. But that doesn’t mean he’s not attractive. Do you think only nice blokes get girls into bed?” Source Really? Rupert doesn't seem like he's a funny guy...

07-06-2008, 09:16 PM	#11 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Magazine Watch Keira will be featured in the US edition of September’s Vogue! According to this. I’ll have to pick up a couple of copies.

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Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 16,356 My Profile	You know where to post the pics

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KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Keira's Mom: "I don't mind if strips on-screen" Keira Knightley’s mom isn’t fussed if her daughter strips-off for the cameras. Playwright Sharman Macdonald — who worked with Keira on hit film The Edge Of Love — revealed she didn’t bat an eyelid when her daughter peeled off for a romp. She said, “Keira stripping and taking part in nude sex scenes doesn’t bother me. “It might bother some mothers - but not me.” Keira, 23, recently revealed that she has no qualms about appearing in the buff, insisting nudity has even become a habit of hers. She said, “I always bare my breasts. It’s not like it’s only in this film!” So when Edge Of Love filmmaker John Maybury requested her to remove her bra, she was happy to oblige: “I said, ‘All right then.’ “It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.” source

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07-17-2008, 10:20 PM	#14 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Emma Thompson will pen the remake of My Fair Lady. The Columbia Pictures project, which Keira Knightley is circling, is a remake of the 1964 movie musical starring Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl-turned socialite Eliza Doolittle. In turn, the film was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Thompson told Parade that writing the film will take a long time because she does not use a word processor. "I'm a Luddite, and I write longhand with an old fountain pen," she said. Thompson is the only person to have won Oscars for both acting (1992's Howard's End) and screenwriting (1995's Sense And Sensibility). Source

07-18-2008, 07:32 AM	#15 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 16,356 My Profile	It's very rare that I'm attracted to a musical

07-28-2008, 11:56 AM	#16 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Keira Knightley refuses breast enhancement for 'The Duchess' We’ll always have “King Arthur.” Keira Knightley has refused to allow any enhancement of her cleavage on publicity photos for her upcoming movie, “The Duchess,” Britain’s Daily Mail reports. Studio heads reportedly want to enlarge Knightley’s bosom in the photos, but the actress, 23, put her foot down. “She has insisted that her figure stay in its natural state,” an insider said. “She is proud of her body and doesn’t want it altered.” This isn’t the first time Knightley has faced this dilemma. The actress drew negative attention in 2004 with her larger-than-usual breasts in publicity stills for “King Arthur.” “Those things certainly weren’t mine,” Fox News quoted her as saying in 2006. According to Knightley, the studio marketing team was behind her suddenly C-cup breasts, but gave her final approval on the photos. “I was like, ‘OK, fine. I honestly don’t give a s—,’” she recalled. Knightley has expressed dissatisfaction with her small bustline. “I would love to have [breasts]!” she told Britain’s GMTV last year, adding, “I’m never going to get [them]. I’m naturally who I am.” While she’s a fan of going au naturale in “The Duchess,” Knightley looks “flat-chested in the whole movie,” the source says. Source Then why does she always complain she wants bigger tits?

07-29-2008, 06:49 AM	#17 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 16,356 My Profile	Good for her

08-02-2008, 12:11 AM	#18 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Keira has chip on her shoulder for missing out on University The Oscar-nominated star of Atonement and Pride And Prejudice now battles to prove to herself - and those around her - that she has brains. “I am completely uneducated,” said Knightley, 23. “Not going to university did give me an incredible driving force because it leaves you with a slight chip on your shoulder. It makes me feel I am going to read absolutely everything so I can prove that I am not stupid.” Her current reading list is an impressive library which includes a biography of Albert Speer, a history of the Vietnam War, the treatises of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine Greer’s feminist text The Female Eunuch. To add to her difficulties, Keira was diagnosed with dyslexia aged six and as a result can read only very slowly, she told Tatler magazine. The actress dropped out of school at 17, before taking her A-levels, after landing her breakthrough role as Lara in a television adaptation of Doctor Zhivago. She found stardom that same year in Bend It Like Beckham and went on to play Guinevere in King Arthur, Cecilia Tallis in Atonement and Dylan Thomas’s lover Vera Phillips in The Edge of Love, as well as the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies. She recently signed up to play Cordelia in a film version of King Lear. Her next ambition is to appear on stage, but she will not be taking a starry role in the West End: “I can’t quite handle the idea of ‘Screen Actress in Big West End Hit’ and all that. I would prefer to do something smaller,” she said, confessing to a constant fear that her acting is not up to scratch. “Everything scares me. The idea of doing theatre scares me in an exciting way but doing any part always terrifies me… It boils down to a fear of standing there in a wig and a dress and suddenly thinking, ‘I feel like an idiot.’ You must not let your imagination see the absurdity of it and cause your performance to die.” While Knightley failed to complete her education, many of her fellow actresses have combined career success with university degrees. Rachel Weisz and Thandie Newton studied at Cambridge, while Kate Beckinsale, Emilia Fox and Emily Mortimer are Oxford graduates. Among those who did not go on to university, Kate Winslet shares Knightley’s feelings, admitting to feeling “intellectually insecure” in the company of more educated actors. Knightley and her boyfriend, actor Rupert Friend, are regular targets for the paparazzi. She said: “I am told by a lot of the paparazzi who follow me that they are helping my career but, by that logic, Paris Hilton should be the biggest box office catch in the world and she isn’t.” Knightley will next be seen as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in The Duchess, an adaptation of Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography. Georgiana was a celebrated 18th century beauty and ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose personal life scandalised Georgian England. “I saw Georgiana as this courageous person who was in a marriage that was like a cage dropped on top of her, forcing her to fight her way out. The film is also partly about the power of female manipulation, which was then a woman’s only weapon,” she said. The script includes a harrowing rape scene with Ralph Fiennes, who plays her promiscuous husband. Knightley described it as “very shocking”, adding that she had learned “some 18th-century swear words” to lend the scene authenticity. The film will premiere in September and Knightley is already being tipped for her second Oscar nomination. :: The full interview is in the new issue of Tatler, on sale Thursday. Source

08-02-2008, 07:08 AM	#19 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 16,356 My Profile	Well, nothing is stopping her from completing her education now.

08-02-2008, 10:55 PM	#20 (permalink)
KeiraLover Keira Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,633 My Profile	Tell me about it. She's got enough money to cover everything and STILL not work while going to school. That's every kids dream.