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Discover Keira Knightley in Interview Magazine

December 05, 2007

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Keira Knighetley is promoting her last movie Atonement directed by Joe Wright. It is adapted from Ian McEwan's novel of the same name and stars James McAvoy.

The interview taken by Tim Blanks from Interview Magazine is more about the movie and the appearance of Keira in it.

The drama-prone adolescent observes sexual electricity between her glamorous older sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightley), and Robbie (James McAvoy, he of the utilitarian boyish masculinity), the college-educated son of the family housekeeper, on whom Briony, too, has a crush. And drawing on her own girlish fantasies, sexual naïveté, and artist's dangerous talent for revenge, one night she tells a whopper of a tale accusing Robbie of a crime he didn't commit, a fiction that nevertheless sends him off to jail for years. Knightley and McAvoy don't have much chemistry between them, but they do share handsome, planed features, they speak a richly clipped, 1930s-movie-style English-from-England.

The most intrigue question form the reporter was what lost (the loss of a girl, the loss of a woman, the loss of a love) is Keira most relate?

And here comes the answer of the actress: “All of them. That’s the power of it. Everybody has regrets. Everybody feels guilty about something, though hopefully not for something as bad as what happens in the movie. But that’s what is wonderful about the book and the film—you understand where these people are coming from. The situation may be completely different from ones I’ve experienced or that most people have experienced, but the core emotions are the same—that we all make mistakes, and sometimes we’re horrendous to each other. It’s the Robbie character [played by James McAvoy] that I find truly heartbreaking, because at the beginning he’s really Christ-like in his goodness—he’s a selfless, perfect person—and in a funny way I don’t think we can ever handle it when someone is that good, so what we do is destroy them.”

Check out the December 2007-January 2008 issue of the Interview Magazine to find more about Keira in the Atonement and enjoy some of her photos from the shooting.