My Keira Knightley

Archive for June, 2008

Keira Knightley looks to be on The Edge of Love with male co-star Dominic Cooper.

The saucy actor sweeps the Atonement beauty off her feet - and onto the bed - in new flick The Duchess.

It’s hardly surprising that Keira has signed up to another period piece, given she has developed a soft spot for them after King Arthur and Pride & Prejudice.

She will play Georgina Duchess of Devonshire who finds herelf at the receiving end of Charles Cray’s lustful attentions.

Hunky Dom is revelling in his rise to fame, having catapulted into the limelight after sharing the screen with A-listers Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia!

The Duchess is released on September 5.

Keira Knightley was happy to film a sex scene for new movie THE EDGE OF LOVE - even though the naked romp was written by her mother.

The movie’s screenplay was penned by Knightley’s mum, Sharman Macdonald, who also served as a producer on the project.

Knightley insists that knowing her mother is capable of writing about steamy clinches didn’t faze her and she was happy to strip off wherever necessary.

She says, “She dared to put a sex scene in it. It didn’t worry me that my mother knows what sex is.

“Come to think of it, I was found under an apple tree. My mother is a virgin. I had no hissy fits when she presented me with the scene.”
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The 23-year-old actress was happy to whip her bra off during a sex scene with Cillian Murphy in The Edge of Love.

She said: “It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on. So when asked I said, ‘alright then’.”

This isn’t the first time Keira has stripped off in a movie. The British star previously filmed steamy scenes for Domino and Atonement.

While the actress is happy to bare her flesh on the big screen, she is terrified of singing in front of the cameras.

Keira, who has previously spoken about her reluctance to sing in The Edge of Love, is set to receive singing lessons for the role of Eliza Doolittle in the remake of My Fair Lady.

The actress is determined her vocal abilities will be in tip-top shape when she belts out the movie’s classic songs, including The Rain In Spain and Wouldn’t It Be Lovely?.

My Fair Lady is due to start shooting in 2010.