It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?
Keira KnightleyThe celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.
Keira KnightleyI always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.
Keira KnightleyWhen I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
Keira KnightleyI enjoy doing an action scene. I'm not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
Keira KnightleyI donโt know what happened through the โ80s, โ90s, and โ00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women werenโt supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.
Keira Knightley