Keira Knightley

[misstarshine]

I love that outfit

 

[iamthewalrus28]

Pure poetry: Keira Knightley as Vera Phillips
Songbird Keira belts them out with Dylan

Keira Knightley was insistent she couldn't carry a tune, but John Maybury, director of her latest movie, a wartime drama about Dylan Thomas, two wives and a jealous husband, begs to differ.


He jokes: "In the Thirties it was 'Garbo talks!' Well, now it's 'Knightley sings!'
Keira says that because her character, Vera Phillips, a childhood friend of the larrikin poet, cries when she sings, the tears "do something to your larynx. I really freaked out because I'm not normally flat, but performing and crying at the same time does that."

It wasn't helped, she added, by a case of nerves so bad she thought she was going to "projectile vomit over all the extras".
When I hear her sing Love Locked Out, one of several numbers in the film, I'm impressed with her voice, which, as her singing teacher Claire Wilford observed, "has got hold of the vulnerability of the character".
"At least it is my singing voice," Keira told me. "It isn't great, but it's passable."
This particular scene is being shot hundreds of feet below ground in London's old Aldwych Tube station, which is doubling as a bomb shelter, and it's full of World War II signs that read The Workers Are Fighting For Victory and Paper: Help Your Country To Send Your Waste Paper To The Nazis As Bombs.
Traipsing up and down those 120 steps (it feels like more, believe me) is no aid to singing perfection, although Maybury boasts the exercise "gives you steel buns".
Watching Keira intently as she sings is actor Cillian Murphy, handsomely attired in a World War II Army officer's uniform. He plays her dashing future husband William Killick.
The Edge Of Love is a powerful drama, inspired by true events, but much manipulated and exaggerated, says Maybury. He calls it "a four-way love story" involving brilliant poet Thomas (RADA-trained Matthew Rhys in a role he was born to play), his tempestuous wife Caitlin (Sienna Miller), Vera, a sculptress, described as a hippie before the hippie era, and Killick, the soldier she would later marry.
The film is based on a screenplay by Sharman Macdonald, Keira's mother. Ms Macdonald wrote it after meeting Rebekah Gilbertson on a writing course.
Gilbertson's story was about her grandparents - Vera Phillips and William Killick.
The movie follows what happened when a shell-shocked Killick comes home from the battlefield. He returns to find his wife living with Thomas and Caitlin and later, amid much drama, ends up in court when he fires a gun at the poet's home.
Originally, Keira was going to play Caitlin. "But Vera's got that Welsh glamour, you know," she explains in a perfect accent.
"Mum wrote Caitlin for me to play, but it was Vera who really spoke to me. We ended up having quite an argument about it.
"Also, I think for Caitlin, you need a spirit that's much more like Sienna's. She's got that natural exuberance.
"I think it's wonderful that she brings a bit of herself into the character. I think I would have had to dig a little deeper if I'd played Caitlin."
Tellingly, Keira adds shyly: "Maybe I didn't want to."
All the actors seem perfectly suited to their roles and, as Keira told me: "There's a carefree nature to the way they all lived against the bleak backdrop of war.
"The way they lived, and drank and had sex and all the rest of it, that does make for great drama."
In that vein, Rhys called Thomas the "rock 'n' roll poet". "He liked to get p****d and hold court, and he liked that image.
"He put on this whole act with this very plummy English accent and he sort of played a character, so it's a funny thing, playing someone who's playing someone."
There have been many rumours of three-in-a-bed sex with Thomas, Caitlin and Vera, and a lesbian sex scene with Vera and Caitlin.
"There's none of that," said Rhys, mournfully. "I get to snog them, but not both at the same time, mind."
As producer Sarah Radclyffe put it: "There is a scene of three on a bed, but not doing 'it'.
"Dylan does bed them both, but these scenes are done tastefully. Erotic and subtle are the words to describe it."
Watching over all these events, admittedly with a wryly detatched eye, is Dylan Thomas's daughter Aeronwy Ellis who, for some London scenes, is a background artist, otherwise known as an extra.
There's probably a poem in that somewhere.
Originally, Lindsay Lohan was cast as Caitlin, but she botched a medical for the film's insurance and was forced to withdraw from the movie days before filming.
Luckily, Sienna Miller, a personal friend of director John Maybury, stepped in and she's proving to be a revelation.
"What upsets me about Lindsay is that the people claiming bits of her pay cheque should be looking after her as a human being," says Maybury.
"From Clara Bow of the silent era to Marilyn Monroe in the Fifties, there have always been these talented, beautiful women who deserve help from the people who are making fortunes off them."
He added: "I will work with her at some point, because her personal intelligence, in the end, is what's going to save her."




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[solg]

i was glad when she played a bigger role than expected in POTC3. even if they did cover her in self tanner for that movie!

she has a very luminous face! very suited for makeup.

my thoughts exactly!
i finally got to see it the other day and she looked amazing in every scene

 

[Karusiek]

new candids! hopefully new lol
O2 Wireless Festival 2007 - Launch of the O2 Cocoon Phone - Backstage - June 14






credit : keira.fanfilled

 

[Working Girl]

I love the coat. But she looks like death.

 

[Fliss]

Thanks so much for the pics Karusiek! Here's the pictures without the keiraseduction tags as well as a couple more!






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[fashionlove79]

keira is just soooo beautiful..thank you for all the pics

 

[Katie123]

meh, i just like the coat. she looks tired

 

[diesanni]

I love that coat!

 

[Karusiek]

a few more, with face shots
thank you Fliss!




credit : keira.fanifllled

 

[kochie332]

i like her jacket! thanks for all of the pics

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

amazing jacket! and i just looked through this thread for all of her pictures from the movie,wow,she looks like a 30's movie star,amazing beauity this girl is!

 

[Zkunis]

Don't like her hair pulled back like that!

 

[dumbledore-lives]

my view of the universe is currently hurdling off into the farthest off-kilter galaxies.
i just saw keira knightley in Pride and Prejudice. this sentence should be able to stand on its own, because she (and the movie) was absolutely brilliant.
but yet, my loyalties to Winona can't help but revolt, in a sort of Bastille, 1789 sort of way. i mean, keira totally looks like Winona and she TOTALLY knows it. which is why she has the half-johnny/half-orlando boyfriend.
is it possible to love keira and still worship Winona? (that's my question to agony aunt.)

 

[Rogue]

Are you implying chinatown is dangerous?

 

[nieska]

i love those latest candids of her! thanks for posting..and wow she looks so great in atonement. can't wait to see it!

 

[after__eight]

I really love all of her latest outfits in the most recent candids. I can't wait to hear her sing in Atonement! She looks gorgeous in that Antonement still, but pale. Did the makeup artists spray her with loads of self tanner for pirates? Because she was wicked tan during that movie, I can't believe a natural tan would wear off so fast.

 

[peppi]

From Atonement, sorry if reposts

ONTD

 

[city girl]

james mcavoy

 

[larien]

i loved her outfit in the festival..