Keira Knightley Talks ‘Last Night,’ Infidelity, Morals

When Keira Knightley broke up with long-time boyfriend Rupert Friend last January, it was by all accounts an amicable split, borne of shifting lives and the pressures of stardom. It was a journey of philosophy, more so than any recent personal experience, then, that the Oscar-nominee made while shooting her new indie drama, “Last Night,” with co-star Sam Worthington.

Knightley plays Joanna, one half of a young married couple that, relatively happy, sees their marriage challenged by a night of temptation. She runs into an old lover, perhaps the one that got away, while her husband, played by Worthington, is on a business trip with a very attractive, very forward co-worker. The movie opens up for debate whether it’s worse to cheat with your heart or your body, a topic Knighteley discussed in a new interview with Flaunt Magazine.

“What is worse? Joanna spends the night in the arms of a man who loves her, and who she loves,” she debated with herself. “He f*cks somebody else. What is worse? We had constant arguments about who was guilty and what was the worst action. Somebody said a great line: ‘He tests the marriage, and she breaks it.’ I don’t know if I agree with that or not, but I can certainly understand it at the same time.”

What’s most effective about the movie, with its shifting portrayals of each member of the marriage as both a victim and transgressor, is that it makes it difficult to decide fault. Even for its star.

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