If you’re into television talk shows, you’ll be happy to hear this! Keira will be appearing on September 8th on David Lettermen and Regis and Kelly on the 9th. I can only assume that she is doing this to promote the Duchess. Only a few more days guys! And as always, Sal and I will be sure to cap the interviews for you.

Two new interviews have been released and you can read them in the Press Archive.

‘My parents taught me the value of money. I don’t take it for granted and, to tell you the truth, I don’t have very expensive tastes.

‘Don’t get me wrong: occasionally I might splash out, but it seems wasteful to buy unnecessary things.’

She rubbishes reports that last year she pocketed $33 million. ‘Wow, that would be nice! I’d have a very big house and I’d buy the dresses I borrow for the red carpet.

‘I’m very lucky at the moment, but not that lucky.’

She admits that she could earn more if she made a constant stream of big-budget Hollywood fare like the Pirates films.

‘But when you do films like The Edge Of Love and The Duchess there are no big pay days - you do them because you want to do the work, and to work with certain directors. My ambition isn’t to buy loads of property.’

Anything tucked away is for her bus-pass years but, she adds: ‘I want to be doing this when I’m old, without any fuss.’

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“When I read the script the first thing that struck me was how incredibly lonely this woman was,” says Keira.

“She was constantly surrounded by so many people and yet entirely alone. I think she just tried to grab on to any kind of love and attention that she could possibly get.”

Naturally enthusiastic and intelligent, Georgiana became involved in politics and eventually fell in love with the future Prime Minister, Lord Grey.

But despite having to accept her husband’s mistress in a humiliating and extremely public menage-a-trois, her love for Grey was forbidden by the Duke.

“The whole journey for her is one from idealism to reality - she gets broken down. She couldn’t have lived with herself if she’d gone off with Grey and given up her kids. I don’t know if it has a happy ending but I think that she survives and that can only be positive.”

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First up, I’ve made over 300 screen captures of the movie Pure (2002), they are very detailed captures so if you haven’t seen the movie you probably don’t want to take a look at them.

In other news:
Keira blames paparazzi for leaving her friendless!

Keira Knightley hates being chased by the paparazzi as it ruins her social life.
The ‘Atonement’ star is well known for her distaste of snappers who try and secure photos of her personal life.
And the actress has admitted her pals fail to invite her to social events in case they are harassed by eager photographers.
“One of them (friends) asked me if I would mind not going out with them to a
restaurant one evening as they find the whole paparazzi thing
alarming,” Contactmusic quoted her, as telling Britain’’s Tatler
magazine.
“I don”t blame them. It can be very intimidating,” she added.

Source

[EDIT] I’ve never been more excited in my entire life! (A bit of an overstatement, but whatever). My sister just told me that our family has a really good chance of being related to Keira. Apparently her great grandparents jumped ship at the Spanish Armada and came over to Scotland (or something of that nature) and yeah. So did my great grandparents. It’d be really interesting to figure out our whole family tree. I’d practically die if I was related to her! -Ali

Thanks to Keira Knightley Fan, we have scans from the september issue of Film Ink, in which Keira was featured. There’s a nice article about her (quite long, and the text is small, so your eyes might take some strain). I’ll try to look for some higher quality scans.

“The dresses are an absolute nightmare because you can’t breathe” revealed Keira Knightley, of her authentic 18th century costume. “But it kind of helps because if you’re feeling at all emotional then it makes it ten times worse as you can’t catch your breath, so that helps in playing the scene.” Miss Knightley continued: “The worst part is after lunch, because they’re so tight they don’t help digestion which meant that Hayley [Atwell, co-star] and I were there playing these very ladylike characters but belching all over the place!”

You can read the full article in the Press Archives.

Thanks to Sweet-Keira, we now know that Now Magazine is holding a contest where you can win exclusive Duchess prizes, like the chair used by Charlotte Rampling on set, a copy of the book, a specially designed hand-held fan and signed poster. All you have to do is answer the question here and you’ll be in the running to win this fantastic prize! The contest ends on Saturday, September 27th.

You’ll probably be seeing less of me for the next few months–school has just started again and I’m working on getting back into my regular schedule :)