From Rotten Tomatoes:

Keira Knightley’s star seems ever on the rise as early success with audiences in films like Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean have segued into multi-award-winning roles in the likes of Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. In The Edge of Love, Knightley stars alongside Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys in a film about the fiery relationship between Dylan Thomas (Rhys) and three of his friends. Already attracting talk of another Oscar nomination, Knightley’s performance is being described as one of her best. The script has been penned by Sharman MacDonald, Knightley’s mother.

You’re an actor who enjoys a challenge; what was the challenge of this film for you?
Keira Knightley: You know, it’s really funny, it’s actually really lovely to work on something that was so intimate, and small. And I think that it’s very rare to get a film script that has such good dialogue. So it was a real joy, because a lot of the time you spend on film sets, you spend it really fighting to find out how to say the words. With this one we were already at another level, because it just flowed so easily.

Did it help to have friendships with the cast before you started?
KK: It really helped. I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it. And it was really great that we did all get on. We had a great time all living in the same house, and we felt like a proper unit. So it means that when you’re doing something that’s incredibly intimate, you’re safe to try things out and you don’t feel like a complete dickhead!

How did you wrap your tongue around the Welsh accent?
KK: We had a really good voice coach. Half my mum’s family is Welsh, and I remember when I was a kid, she used to read to me, and wizards and characters like that always had a Welsh accent.

Did it feel strange working on her script for this film, as well?
KK: It actually felt very natural. If you live with a writer, you do grow up with their words and with their fantasies. And I’ve pretty -much seen every single one of her plays, so I’ve been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, and all the rest of it. It felt very natural and very easy, and lovely to do that professionally, as well.

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From indielondon.co.uk:

Q. Were you instrumental in persuading [director] John Maybury to come on board?
Keira Knightley: I worked with John on The Jacket and I think he’s an extraordinary film-maker. It was actually Shar who showed me Love is the Devil before I did The Jacket. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we’d so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

Q. What was the biggest challenge of this project for you?
Keira Knightley: It was really lovely to work on something that was so intimate, and small. It’s very rare to get a film script that has such good dialogue, so that was a real joy. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words, whereas on this one we were already on another level.

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We have a lot of new interviews, I manage to put only three in the video archive and one to donwnload, the rest I can’t rip off, so we have to see in their websites :(
Captures is on the way.
Thanks Lier and Iris

From MTV:

Besides being one of the most-photographed and scrutinized women in the world not named Lindsay, Britney or Paris, Keira Knightley has something else on her side: actual, honest-to-goodness critical acclaim. Sure, she’s starred in three little pirate movies too, but at 22 years old, Knightley is already an Oscar nominee and a two-time Golden Globe lead actress contender, plus she’s got the plum role in the biggest weep-fest this side of “Titanic.”

In “Atonement,” Knightley trades stolen glances with co-star James McAvoy, as larger forces conspire to keep the would-be lovers apart. If it sounds like the kind of movie they don’t make anymore, you’re right. Knightley stopped by MTV to talk about the film, why sex scenes aren’t her favorite thing to do, and why you probably won’t see her starring opposite Will Ferrell anytime soon.

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From USA Today

Yes, she adores her three Chanel handbags and the dainty patent-leather lace-up Christian Louboutin booties she wore to a press lunch earlier in the week.

But Keira Knightley is even more passionate about her current reading material, a light, fluffy romp called Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny.

“It’s the one about Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka. It’s amazing. It was actually given to me recently,” says Knightley. “It’s completely terrifying — this guy, who has committed these horrendous crimes. I highly recommend it, but it’s certainly not happy reading.”

No wonder director Joe Wright, who has worked with Knightley on the new drama Atonement and her current Chanel Coco Mademoiselle perfume ad campaign, calls her ““very smart.”

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From News Blaze:

Your character Cecilia has quite a fashion sense.
Keira Knightley: Yes, I’m sure that if you were rich back then in the ’30s, it was a very glamorous period. It was incredible clothes. I saw her incredibly clearly when I read the script, and even more so when I read the book. I think she’s a brilliantly drawn character. Not particularly nice when you first meet her at the start of the film, but I thought there was incredible humanity to her, and multiple layers to her. And the fact - and this sounds very slouchy - that she’s redeemed by love, by the sacrifice, by walking away from the family, and the rest of it. I don’t know, I just thought she was beautiful.

How would you characterize your own look, like your red carpet look vs. your street look?
KK: My red carpet look is created entirely by people other than myself! And my street look is…scruffy!

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From variety

Believe it or not, director Joe Wright wanted Keira Knightley to play Briony Tallis, thinking his “Pride & Prejudice” actress might be perfect as the guilt-stricken central character in “Atonement.”

Knightley loved the script, but immediately hatched other plans.

“I just totally fell in love with Cecilia,” she explains, referring to the part of Briony’s older sister. “I wanted to play a role that was not a girl on the brink of womanhood, but was very much a woman in her own right.” Her protofeminist take on “Pride & Prejudice’s” Elizabeth Bennett had earned Knightley an Oscar nomination, but the actress felt Briony was too similar.

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Thanks to Altenneen.

Tim Blanks: Are movies an escape for you?
Keira Knightley: Absolutely! I always loved being transported to another time and place, and I love to be carried away in a fantasy.

TB: When you’re watching it or when you’re making it?
KK: When I’m watching it. When I’m shooting I fell like I’m on pause much of the time, because there’s a lot od waiting around. You can’t focus on anything else, but you can’t be completely in the story all the time, either, because there are 20 minutes between takes.

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