Damian Lewis Talks About His Co-star, Keira Knightley

In a recent interview from The Telegraph, Damian talks about his “young film icon” co-star, Keira Knightley. Here’s what he has to say about our girl.

He is immediately generous about Knightley’s aptitude for the role of the fickle, bitchy movie star Jennifer (Celimene in the original). ‘I have to say she has been a delight to work with,’ he says. ‘Her instinct is unbelievably good for someone who hasn’t been on the stage professionally. That’s not surprising. She grew up in the theatre, after all – her mother is the playwright Sharman Macdonald and her father the actor Will Knightley – and she’s proving to the manor born so far as I can tell.’

‘She has taken on this role with a great deal of humour about her current position in the industry,’ he continues. ‘She’s a young film icon, for heaven’s sake. She’s the face of Chanel. And she’s playing a character who’s going to fascinate and intrigue and appal us. She must have experienced a lot of that world in her own life, to some degree, so she understands the part and completely gets it.’

Read the rest of the interview, here.

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