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Kevin Maher Nobody wants to talk about Keira Knightley’s body. Not the flock of assistants, stylists and acquaintances who flit about in her wake as she cruises towards a cordoned press corner of Claridge’s Hotel. Not the feisty PR martinets and film company major-domos who’ve organised the day’s interviews to publicise Knightley’s new film, Atonement. And certainly not the cowed line of TV reporters, queueing up for their five-minute burst of platitudinous bites. No, it seems that the 22-year-old Knightley has spent the last year battling the world’s obsession with her body image, even successfully suing a national newspaper over accusations of anorexia, and so an edict has been issued from the highest echelons of media management stating that nobody, BUT NOBODY, must mention the subject of Knightley’s body. Nobody, that is, except for Knightley herself. “I mean, I’m an actress and it’s a tool, after all,” she says, launching into a lengthy and nuanced explanation of the Knightley bod...

Keira Knightley might be one of the most sought after actresses today, but the star reveals that success hasn’t come easy for her. The 22-year-old actress admitted that her first years in the industry were lonely and she took the strain of malicious comments. “When I was 17, 18, 19, I felt incredibly insecure. I went through a period of thinking I looked weird and skinny, and that’s 10 times worse when you’re being written about,” the Daily Express quoted her, as telling Vogue magazine. “When it first starts happening, I defy anybody not to look at every review that says you’re rubbish and not to look at every picture that says you’re wearing the wrong dress,” she added. Keira said that to get away from criticism, she buried herself in her work, but even that didn’t stop critics from doubting her suitability in Pride And Prejudice. Celebrity Beauty Products, Bath & Shower , Fragrance , Best Buys , Gift Sets , Hair Care , Makeup , Men's Grooming , Shaving & Hair Removal ,...

Keira Knightley has said that she played scenes in the Pirates of the Caribbean films without a script. While Knightley said that she enjoyed playing the role of Elizabeth Swann in the action-packed tales of plunder on the high seas, she says she’d rather not repeat her experiences in the Pirates films. “I find it very difficult to work without a script, which is what that was,” she said. The 22-year-old added that the lack of script meant that she originally played a scene with martial arts star Chow Yun Fat slightly differently. “ That scene with Chow Yun-Fat where he dies, I didn’t know what the scene was about. I thought he had kidnapped me and that I was completely terrified of him. After four set-ups the director was like, ‘Why are you playing it like that?’ And I was like, ‘Well, he’s kidnapped me and I don’t want to be here. I’m terrified.' And he was like, ‘What? You haven’t been kidnapped!’” Knightley, who opened the 64th Venice Film Festival with the premiere of her...