Sexy Keira Knightley on the cover of the new issue of Interview. Keira Knightley: “My magnificent breasts are fiction! Candid interview with kira

Englishwoman Keira Knightley is one of the greatest actresses of her generation. In the April issue of Interview Magazine, she became the main character - the cover, a large and non-standard photo shoot performed by the stars fashion photography Marcus Piggot and Mert Alas, and a very unusual interview - director David Cronenberg (David Cronenberg), who filmed Kira in his film A Dangerous Method, spoke with the 27-year-old actress, who is relaxing at her home in London, after filming as Anna Karenina.

Kiera Knightley / Keira Knightley
Mert & Marcus photographers

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David Cronenberg- How are you? Where are you?

Keira Knightley- I'm fine. In London. I just left someone in the kitchen cooking chicken curry, although I was going to help him, but I won’t (laughs). Where are you?

DC- I'm in the office of my home in Toronto. You've finished your work on Anna Karenina, haven't you?

KN- We finished right before Christmas.

DC- Another Russian.

KN- Yes! I'm not entirely sure what the story is about. It seems that I'm starting to feel Russian... Although, I've never even been to Russia.

DC- Me too. You didn't speak with a Russian accent playing Anna, did you?

KN- No, although you told me that I should do it. I think you remember when you said in Venice one day, "Go back to Joe (To Wright, director of the film "Anna Karenina" - approx. valse-boston) and talk like a Russian."

DC Yes, I'm glad you didn't. I feel big influence from both of you: both you and Sabina (Spielrein - the character of Keira Knightley in the movie "A Dangerous Method"). I can't even think of you working with another director. I'm guessing arrogantly that on the set you secretly think: "Oh my God ... David would have done it very differently."

KN- I miss you all the time. (laughs)

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DC- Is this version of "Anna Karenina" made like a big epic movie?

KN- In a sense, yes, but at the same time it turned out to be a very stylized, deeply theatrical work. In many ways, it's the opposite of "A Dangerous Method" with its million different angles. They act completely differently. Sabina and Anna are not similar, but there is a common idea that their way of thinking turns against them as a result. But in fact, the way we did Anna Karenina is completely different from working on A Dangerous Method.

DC- Have you watched other films based on "Anna Karenina"?

KN- I watched several versions some time ago. One of them on TV in England, with Elena McCrory as Anna, and she was amazing. I also saw the Greta Garbo version, but that was a long time ago. I didn't want to watch it all before filming, and if somewhere I managed to do something similar to them, it's by accident, and not because I deliberately copied someone. But this is a very strange book ... I do not quite understand what Leo Tolstoy's real attitude towards Anna was - whether he liked her or hated her, whether she is the hero of this novel, or his anti-hero. At some points he seems to despise her, but this is really a book about a woman who is despised in some way, so you have to play it without trying to make her too good, or oversimplifying everything, which is really very difficult. I think if you turn it all into a melodrama, it will not be as interesting as the original story.

DC- Someone might say: "Why does it matter what Tolstoy's point of view was?" By the way, one can imagine that Tolstoy was a director, and Anna was his actress. Once I wrote a story myself. I started my career thinking I would be a writer.

KN- Didn't know about it.

DC- Yeah. The strange thing is that I find a lot of directing in it. You select the characters, dress them, light them, find the setting, decide what they will eat... So, thinking of Tolstoy as the director of your novel and you as his actress, try to understand how he treats you. applies. Was Joe Wright Leo Tolstoy for you?

KN - (laughs) Oh sure. I think the most important thing in trying to adapt such a book to cinema is to determine what Tolstoy thought about each of his characters. What is the purpose of each character? Should the character look good or bad? Is there a way we can combine the good and the bad in this person because that would be more interesting? I think we ask ourselves these questions all the time. So, yes, I guess Joe did, in a way, become Leo Tolstoy.

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DC- So, you played two tragic roles of Russian women in a row, one of which is based on real events. Was there any difference for you in playing a completely fictional character and a real historical person?

KN- Yes, there are always moral questions when you play a real person. Is there a good reason for doing this, or are you just exploiting someone's name? It's like dancing on someone's grave. I think it's much more fun to work on a fictional character. So many people are identified with him. So you don't take advantage of anyone and don't take the easy way out by judging them. Or, if you condemn them, then you do it in such a way that the person judges himself, and is not condemned from the outside. What's nice about playing someone real is that there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions you want to ask are already answered. Although, playing Sabina was quite difficult, because there was not much information about her at all.

DC- But there is much more information about Anna Karenina in a big book, which, in a strange way, makes Anna a more real person than most people like Sabina.

KN- When it comes to great fictional literary characters, and why they often turn into movie characters, they talk and act like real people. They are as full of flaws as they are of heroism. I think the reason people love and hate them so much is because they always see themselves in them as in a mirror. At some level, you can always understand them. Sometimes it's a scary, dark mirror. I think, in a sense, this is Anna. I'm not sure people will feel the same about Sabina.

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DC- People who liked Sabina - and there are quite a few of them - are very grateful, because they feel that she has come back to life.

KN- Absolutely. I may not have understood her very well, but she wrote in her diary: "My name was Sabina Spielrein" and "I, too, was once a man." The words swirled around in my head, a kind of fire that someone should have noticed. It helped me to play her role, because many people, having learned the name, also know the story. I think that Sabina has a very ambiguous personality, and I think it's great when people react in this way.

DC- You know, I had a strange experience when my film Crash (1996) came out in England. The tabloid press went wild over the course of the year attacking the film, calling it vicious and disgusting and "beyond debauchery" - that's what I liked the most. But you are constantly at the top of the English press. Do you think people there look at your work with a clear eye? Or do they only see the celebrity without really seeing your work?

KN- I really don't know... I don't really know what they really want... I know people liked the spanking scenes in A Dangerous Method (laughs). Although I'm not entirely sure. Strange, by the way, when we were in Venice (at the Venice Film Festival - approx. valse-boston), I was not asked about this scene once in all the time that we were there.

DC- Me too.

KN- And then, in Toronto, I was asked about this not much more often. But in England, it happens really often, and it seems to be the only thing I'm ever asked about. I'm not quite sure how this characterizes the English.

DC- Well, they probably like spanking. Perhaps it comes from situations in private schools for boys. Getting your bare bottom spanked is usually a kind of homoerotic experience in these types of schools... This is my interpretation of why spanking is really so interesting to the English.

KN- Really interesting. Probably soon I will have to shoot back from journalists who want to ask a question on this topic.

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DC You have already starred in several very popular films such as Pirates of the Caribbean. You know, I've never made a big Hollywood movie before. Do you think I could work in this?

KN- I think you could work anywhere. But I think when you get a big project, working on it becomes much more difficult than working on a personal project. I had a lot more fun filming A Dangerous Method because I was closer to the people I worked with. You feel everyone on a personal level, you feel like part of a single team. Major projects more complex because the number of people working there is huge. But in working with you, serious questions constantly arise, you constantly have to make decisions. In big studio films, there are so many different people and channels through which any thought must pass, so it is quite difficult to understand what the final decision will be. It is always much easier when there is one person whose thought you follow.

DC- Well, good dictatorship, I think that's what should be on the set. But Robert Pattinson, who is in Cosmopolis, which I just finished, once said that after working on Twilight, he was surprised enough that I could make decisions on the set, and that happened. But for me it's business as usual.

KN- I think quite often, when you have a lot of money and time, and you make a movie for a big film studio, you don't have to make the final decisions right on the go. You can always go back and reshoot the scene.

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DC“Sometimes I wonder where the border is. Do you enjoy working on something like "Pirates..." where the whole process is big tech? It seems to me that you are not so keen on modern technologies ... Or are you?

KN- If I had to make a choice, it would be something like a performance, or, in general, less technological work. When you work in a space that uses a lot of technology, it's very difficult to play your role because you have to do a lot of things many times, from different angles. This is actually what I would like to understand. I'm very interested in how to keep the high efficiency of the game in a high-tech process.

DC- Well, in the end, you will just put on a suit that makes a digital picture of your movements, and the whole movie game will consist of this.

KN- I've already filmed it. Wouldn't you like to try this?

DC- Can you believe I'll try (Kira laughs). After Anna Karenina, another film comes out in which you starred.

KN- Yes, in June the film "Looking for a friend for the end of the world" is released - a film about the end of the world, oddly enough. I starred in it even before Anna Karenina. It also stars Steve Carell.

DC- How it was?

KN Well, Steve is absolutely amazing. I love his work in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). He has an incredible ability to be funny, but at the same time pretentious, like a crying clown. The film has some comical moments, but we are talking about the end of the world, so obviously there's a sense of the apocalypse, and it's not a comic because everything dies... Other than that, it's fun enough. (laughs)

DC- You just have a lot of other films, and other directors.

KN- This is true. Sorry. I cheat on you all the time.

DC- I know. Okay, maybe this will spice up our relationship. I made another movie after A Dangerous Method, so I think we're both guilty.

KN- I know. You changed me. Open relationships are fine. I think it's all right.

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Photographers: Mert Alas, Marcus Piggott
Style: Karl Templer
Location: London, March 2012
Text: David Cronenberg
Translation that you can say: (the translation is far from perfect, I recommend everyone to read the original text on the journal's website:

In an exclusive interview with TV Program, the famous actress explained why she decided to play Anna Karenina and be photographed topless.

In an exclusive interview with TV Program, the famous actress explained why she decided to play Anna Karenina and take a topless photo.

This fragile Englishwoman has been in star status for more than ten years, and yet she is not yet thirty. In addition to roles in many blockbusters, Kira managed to make a mark in serious dramas and receive a lot of prestigious awards and nominations. The actress also has a happy marriage and early motherhood (in December, Knightley confirmed that she was expecting a baby).
And Kira began her campaign for fame, success and family happiness, being quite a baby. If you believe the bike, popular in the cinema world, at the age of three she demanded that her parents hire a professional agent.

"THE MAIN THING IN A WOMAN IS SELF-RESPECT"
“Is the story about the agent true?”

— Absolute! (Laughs.) And what else to expect from an actor's child, when all the talk around is exclusively about engagements? Parents did not give up immediately, retreated step by step: well, they say, we will allow you to work, but not in advertising. Okay, in advertising, but not in TV shows. Okay, TV shows, but not soap operas! And so they handed over one position after another in exchange for promises to study well.

- Completed?

- Imagine! It turned out that I like to study. I loved the humanities, warmly treated the natural, and only mathematics kept a respectful distance from me (smiles).

- And in the end they played the mathematician Joan Clark in The Imitation Game ...

- So I played a pirate, although I never boarded a ship, and Queen Guinevere, having nothing to do with the ruling dynasty. Such a profession.

- In The Imitation Game, your role is not romantic at all. You are a cryptanalyst from the team of mathematical genius Alan Turing, who managed to unravel the encryption codes of the Germans during World War II ...

Keira Knightley should be showing up any minute, everyone in the studio is getting a little nervous, rehearsing the welcome smiles. We're in LA, everyone's a little nervous here. In the spacious pavilion, the echo from the moving spotlights rumbles. The long rows of hangers are filled with dresses, the floor is piled with boxes of shoes. A large table is lined with jewelry worth two million dollars. Two huge guards in identical black suits look after the jewels. They look suspiciously at anyone who spins around the table for too long. Staring at the diamonds, I almost miss the moment Kira appears. She wears a wool blazer and a pleated skirt. On her feet are brown lace-up boots. Twenty-six-year-old Knightley rewards everyone present with a polite "hello" and, seeing the familiar face of hair stylist Ben in the crowd, goes to him to kiss the air twice.

Kira remembers everyone who helped her become a star - hairdressers, makeup artists, assistant producers. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for her role in the film Pride and Prejudice, and now she is filming in the film adaptation of the novel Anna Karenina. “This is Tolstoy,” the actress exclaims emotionally. “You have to be crazy to refuse such an offer.” And this is not the first time that Kira has to play a Russian aristocrat. In David Cronenberg's new film A Dangerous Method, the girl starred as Sabina, a Russian patient of the psychoanalyst Gustav Jung, suffering from hysterical seizures.

Kira is a very polite Englishwoman, she does not even try to speak with an American accent and act like an American. She was born in the London suburb of Teddington. Her mother is the famous playwright Sherman McDonald, her father is theater actor Will Knightley. Already at the age of three, the girl asked her parents to hire her own agent, at the age of six she got one. Knightley patiently built her acting career, ignoring those who scolded her unconvincing performance. Nonsense! The results of her game are more than convincing - by 2008 (thanks to the Disney trilogy "Pirates of the Caribbean") she became one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood with an annual income of $ 40 million! In addition, since 2006, Keira Knightley has personified the Chanel fragrance - Coco Mademoiselle.

She is very rational about her personal life and never flaunts her relationship. Little is known about her novels. She dated actor Rupert Friend for five years. Last January, they broke up due to the fact that the terms of their contracts practically did not allow them to be together. Her new friend is James Righton, lead singer of the English indie rock band Klaxons.

Corset? And what, nowadays someone uses corsets?

Oh, it was a director's fantasy! I usually put a few drops on my wrist and on my neck. I hate the thought of someone bringing me to my knees.

And what, aroma can win the heart of a man?

Good question... I don't know. It's probably better to ask men about it. A friend of mine stopped dating a girl after the first date because he didn't like the smell of her perfume. It is possible that the opposite also happens.

On what basis do you dress?

I like boyish chic. I feel a lot of boyhood inside me. When I was a teenager, I dressed like a boy. Until the age of 14, she did not wear skirts at all. I just hated them. I still like to wear men's shirts.

Can you remember your first designer outfit?

Yes, it was a Miu Miu dress. Remember the white dress of Marilyn Monroe that rose from the air from the subway? My dress looked like him, only black. It didn't fit me, especially the top. For such a dress you need a large chest (and I don’t have it at all). But I still love him. I bought it ten years ago, but it still looks relevant. I love it when things come back into fashion.

Do you need a lot of time to get yourself in order in the morning?

I do everything very quickly. Especially now that I have short haircut. FROM long hair there was a lot more trouble.

Why did you cut your hair?

It was required for filming. At first I objected, I thought that you can get by with a wig. We began to discuss it, drank a glass of champagne, then a second, and after the third I already had this haircut.

Are you sorry?

Not at all. Although I thought I would regret it. But now it's so easy to manage hair! Washed up and left. Fabulous.

You play a lunatic in A Dangerous Method, the first on whom Jung tried his psychoanalysis.

Yes, I'm playing a patient. My heroine had a romantic relationship with Dr. Carl Jung.

Jung taught the whole world how to interpret dreams. Do you have recurring dreams?

There are, but I'm not going to retell them to you (laughs).

Last Night in New York, you played a married woman dating her former lover. Do you think it's possible to love two men at the same time?

Sometimes. But it is difficult to answer such a question unambiguously. It should somehow be combined with your personality, with the place that you occupy in life, with how you feel about the person who is next to you.

Which is worse, emotional or physical betrayal? Or do men and women perceive it differently?

I always thought that emotional betrayal is worse for women, and physical betrayal for men. But when I started asking men about it, I made an interesting discovery. It turns out that for them it is much worse, much more dangerous to fall in love with another woman than just to have sex with her.

I never thought that men are able to analyze their betrayals so difficult.

(Laughs.) How capable! But I think it all depends on the relationship in a couple. This topic is both exciting and repulsive at the same time. We will never be able to unambiguously explain why cheating occurs. Each time is a special story.

Have you ever sexted?

Excuse me, what?

Sexting. This is when someone exchanges intimate messages via sms or via social networks. Do you think this is flirting or cheating?

Oh my God! I do not know what to say. First time I hear about this.

Do you believe in female intuition?

I believe, but I do not think that it works correctly in a hundred percent of cases. I can always feel the people between whom there is sex, to catch the chemistry of their relationship.

Have you ever been jealous for no reason?

I think jealousy is the only emotion in which there is nothing good, nothing positive. I'm not saying I've never been jealous. Of course she was jealous. But it seems to me that jealousy never arises by mistake. This feeling can be trusted.

Do you find it easier to communicate with women or with men?

My friends include both men and women. There is a friend who is comfortable only in a purely female company. In my other girlfriends, as in me, there is a lot of boyishness. But from men I do not require a terrible physical strength and hard testosterone character. They can be musicians, artists, writers and directors. Men are actually very sensitive beings.

If you imagine that you will no longer be recognized, even for one day, where will you go?

Very simple. I'll go to the subway. I love riding the subway and seeing people.

Keira Knightley

Prefers to stay away from sexy looks and eccentric outfits on the red carpet. But this time, the actress decided to surprise her fans and colleagues with a very unusual photo shoot for the new issue of Interview magazine. The screen star appeared on the cover in a very sensual and beautiful image.

With wet hair and a sexy outfit, Keira Knightley looks simply dazzling in a black and white photo. The 29-year-old beauty looks straight at the camera, and her hair falls erotically on her face - cheeks, chin and cheekbones. The Donna Caran dress only emphasized the natural beauty of the actress, who has been a Hollywood sex symbol for many years. Photographer Patrick Demarchelier was delighted to work with Keira Knightley and bring her to the world in a new light. The 71-year-old Frenchman focused all his attention on the celebrity's expressive look.

In an interview with Interview, Keira Knightley admitted that she is simply crazy about her husband James Righton. The actress and famous musician got married last year and are still in the honeymoon stage. There is a wonderful mutual understanding between celebrities and they try to appreciate every minute they spend together.

Akrisa feels happy

The movie star Pirates of the Caribbean” Keira Knightley and 29-year-old James Righton met in February 2011 after they were introduced to each other by their mutual friend Alex Chung. They announced their engagement in May 2012. And already in the spring of next year, celebrities secretly signed and invited a very modest number of guests by the standards of the stars to this ceremony. Keira Knightley and James Righton wedding was held in the town hall near the city of Marseille. The young bride and her husband looked very happy and joyful as they left this important place. Then the newlyweds got into a modest Renault Clio car and sped away. A small company, which became the guests of the holiday, rejoiced for the actress and her husband at the exit from the town hall.

The actress has her own beauty secrets

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