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The Hole Did You Know? Create a list ». Movie year What I Watched September Keira Knightley Filmography. See all related lists ». I don't necessarily have a good level of anonymity in London - it's pretty much the same everywhere. I haven't really found it better or worse in any other city.
Their appeal is basic: they are good, old-fashioned adventure films, appealing to both kids and adults alike, and each has been more successful than the last.
But they also sound like a nightmare to shoot. Some of it was done with a blue screen, which Knightley found difficult "It is slightly ridiculous when you suddenly go 'ohhh I'm meant to be really frightened of him' and it's Bill Nighy in his skinny grey suit". Shooting on location also sounded tough: "The last six weeks were in torrential rain. We had to wear wetsuits and do intense fight scenes running uphill.
I was training non-stop on a cross trainer every night just trying to get my cardiovascular up. The screen writer on that one is Keira's mum, Sharman Macdonald. Knightley is excited about working with her mum. She says, "I did absolutely nothing, I walked around, I cooked a lot, I had friends over and we drank very good wine.
A publicist comes in and says our group interview slot is over and Knightley, in the manner of the Julia Roberts character in Notting Hill, will be moving into another suite in this Knightsbridge hotel to go through the whole thing again. After the interview I wander around for a bit. The publicity machine for Pirates has taken up a whole floor of this hotel.
There are makeup artists running around and cables taped to the ground, satellite feeds to Asia, someone shouting "Orlando? Yeah Orlando's almost done! Maybe that's where she gets her steeliness from - it's honed in these tedious hours of strangers asking you about everything from your body, to the food you put into it, to your sexual relationships, to your parents.
Then, when she gets home to central London, five or more men will be out of the front of her house - and they'll photograph her living the life she has just spent the day discussing with strangers. Pushing the button in the lift and escaping to street level to the relative lack of artifice that is Sloane Square, I preferred to think of her at home cooking for her friends in her flat, freezing chicken stock, getting drunk on good red wine and having a laugh at how weird life is.
King Arthur has been reinvented rather for the modern audience, with its mythical certainties of good and evil stripped away and a murkier world of internecine political squabbles interjected. The idea behind Guinevere, in my head, is that she was a Pict. We don't know much about Pictish society, but it was matriarchal, so she would have been a warrior, anyway.
She would have fought shoulder to shoulder with men. For me, when we were doing it, none of the characters are innocents. These people all have blood on their hands; they've all done things that are disgusting. But they've done it for a purpose. She's not pure. If she has to shag Arthur or Lancelot to get what she wants, then that's what's going to happen. Oh, I don't know, this could mean anything, really.
It could be an argument for freedom fighters or against being a slapper - she could be an anarchist or a nun. It's really hard to tell with young, ambitious people; they're so engaged with a project, they tend not to extend its ideological tendrils any further. And it's hard not to envy that, even while it's always a bit pat, a bit of a conversational cul-de-sac.
To fight, convincingly, shoulder to shoulder, she had to do that thing that is so de rigueur, which is totally to change your body shape. It worried me, but it was cool, it was a body that was doing what it should do. I haven't got a clue because I don't weigh myself, but it was all muscle and I was big. My neck disappeared. My chest flattened even more.
It wasn't the most feminine thing in the world, but it worked for the part, because there was strength there, and it was needed. Since the first Bridget Jones, this has been a byword for actorly seriousness, the willingness to abandon considerations of personal appearance in order to be convincing. It must be a reaction to a cinematic culture in which any deviation from physical perfection automatically spells art house. Whichever, Knightley fights vigorously against accusations of vanity way before you've even levelled them.
I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have brought that up. But can I just say that I haven't? It's the idea that people believe it! I've had friends phoning me up, and I'm like, 'Fuck off!
Of course I haven't. But I haven't. It's the only thing about me that I don't want bigger. This is one of a number of instances in which she's very careful, if in a subtle way, not to laud thinness as a Good Thing. She maintains that she's not at all fit, and wheezes when she runs up stairs. She eats a lot of pasta, apparently, and stuff like that. She talks about her body like a machine - in Bend It Like Beckham, "it was a runner's body, as opposed to a weights body".
For King Arthur, it was "a really positive image to have, a natural, strong, working body". It all sounds as if she's been to some kind of masterclass on how to exist in her world without being picked over, or accused of vanity, or anorexia, or being on the Atkins diet, or failing to be perfect, or any one of the myriad ways in which female stars can let down their public, either by failing to provide a decent role model to youngsters or by not looking good enough in a bikini.
She talks about her body as one might talk about a voice - turning it into one thing for one part, another for another; connected to her, sure, but in a loose, expedient way, never defining her. It all sounds a little defensive to me, this emphasis on fitness over aesthetics, the resolute insistence that she is the way she is, and she would gladly alter it the minute a part required her to.
But then, I guess you would be defensive; papers talk about this kind of thing a lot. You regularly see paparazzi shots of her leaving a gym, with captions musing over why on earth she'd need to go to one of those, when she has such a perfect tummy.
Not even Delia Smith is allowed to go no-carb without the moral majority worrying that she's about to give the whole nation a kidney stone if you don't know what I'm on about, then you don't read enough tabloids; and I salute you. The aspect of fame Knightley finds most difficult, though, is not the continuous aesthetic assessment, which, let's face it, usually winds up in her favour, but just the fact of being watched.
It's very strange. It's not so much that I'm going to look shit in pictures - that's cool, that's fair enough. It's just very strange, because I've always thought the job was to watch people and try in some kind of way to copy a movement, or your job is to watch, to observe. And, suddenly, you're the one that's being watched. And I just think, 'Well, now I'm not quite sure how to do my job. Look, people, I'm trying to watch you!
I can't do it while you're watching me! For all the difficulties of being catapulted into fame, Knightley still has a residue of civilian courtesy, indeed, a courtesy way beyond the average. If you make any kind of observation, she responds with exaggerated interest. Talking about the sorts of roles young female actors get, she notes that it's rare to find more than one woman of her age in any one cast, since that kind of ensemble writing doesn't really happen, except in Gosford Park; and, consequently, one doesn't tend to have worked extensively with one's contemporaries.
And I remark, totally irrelevantly, that it's like British Airways the cabin crew, since there are thousands of them, never get to go on the same flights, so never get to make friends with each other. And she leans forward and says, "That's really interesting", even though it totally isn't, and I can't help but think that's a nice nature and a very good upbringing.
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