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Keira Knightley admits she has lost touch with Sienna Miller since they filmed ‘The Edge Of Love’.

Keira, who played Vera Phillips in the Dylan Thomas biopic, revealed the pair have drifted apart, despite enjoying a close friendship on set.

She said: “I love Sienna, I think she’s a wonderful actress, but we’ve been like two passing ships in the night recently.

“I don’t think I’m very good at figuring out female friendships. I think they’re quite tricky to navigate.”

The 23-year-old star, Keira Knightley said she discusses her sex life with her mother, playwright Sharman Macdonald.

She added to Britain’s Glamour magazine: “Mum and I would always talk about sex. She’d come up to my room, have me roll her cigarettes and then tell me I’d have to have one with her.

“Mum’s a bit mental in a good way. She’s this chilled-out hippy mother. My house was always the one where my brother and his mates would be drinking when they shouldn’t be.”
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Keira Knightley is determined to prove she is not dumb after dropping out of school at 17.
The British star, who is famed for portraying upper class characters in films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, suffers from dyslexia.
But she insists her learning disability and poor academia record only spurs her on more to show she is brainy.
She says, “It (dyslexia) makes me feel I am going to read absolutely everything so I can prove that I am not stupid.”
Knightley also admits that giving up university in favour of a film career has left her with a “chip on her shoulder” over her lack of education.
She adds, “I am completely uneducated. Not going to university did give me an incredible driving force because it leaves you with a slight chip on your shoulder.
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Keira Knightley has refused to have any retouching done on her pictures for new movie The Duchess.

The actress posed for a series of publicity shots for the film but told friends she didn’t want her breasts digitally enhanced.

‘She has insisted that her figure stay in its natural state,’ a source tells the Mail On Sunday.

‘She is proud of her body and doesn’t want it altered.’

The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 23, was famously retouched in the posters for 2004 film King Arthur.

Her bosom was made to look more voluptuous for the US market.
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The wig Keira Knightley donned in new movie The Duchess was so heavy, contact music she needed a special headrest to support her neck.
The 23-year-old plays an aristocrat in the forthcoming 18th-century drama and had to wear a heavy wig as part of her elaborate period costume.
And the hairpiece was so massive, the film crew created a custom resting post to take the weight off the slender star’s shoulders.
Knightley’s co-star Hayley Atwell recalls, “I loved filming The Duchess - Keira has a great sense of humour. She had to wear this huge wig that was so heavy they made her a board that she could lean her shoulders and head against in between takes so she didn’t topple over or get neck aches.”
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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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