"I was so obsessed!" Keira Knightley on loving Pride & Prejudice and partying through Atonement

[Music] what is your favorite Joe Wright film that you've worked on with go oh I don't know I mean probably the one I had most I liked Oh shall I just make more of these noises and not answer your question um it's really hard to choose because Pride and Prejudice was so amazing because I'd been so obsessed with it since I was about eight but her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable family tolerable so like doing that and then also it was the first time that I'd worked or been around a load of people of my own age who were all interested in the same thing because I'd left school early and you know done all of that count your blessings Lizzie if he liked you you'd have to talk to him okay so I think that was really fun because it was this group of girls that were all together and that was amazing does the hot weather make you very badly but then atonement was super special because we were all living good heavens you're blushing it's just hot in here that's all in this house in Shropshire together and at that point we were all partying a lot and that was fun dance with me Anna Karenina was not fun I'm not used to being spoken to like that by a man I met once at a railway station I dare say but if I'm not to dance with you then I'm getting out of this operetta going home because she kills herself at the end if you haven't seen I'm sorry but it's quite famous you know I mean she's quite I think the spoiler has gone has gone yep but you know Anna Karenina was technically super difficult and also was this character that was like just not happy so complex in any way so that I think probably fulfilling as far as like how difficult something is and yet you know she's still having to bring it that was that was amazing but so but probably the first two were actually properly fun okay that scene where it's raining it's you and nothing if I didn't all see who comes back in yeah and in Anna Karenina it's my third time although I don't actually work with him in Nutcracker we went over we cuddled once as we parted you know we were like ships in the night go oh yeah I don't understand that scene where it's I'm not gonna say Ratatat dialogue but you are spitting the lines at each other it is an incredible scene might I ask why with so little endeavour at civility I'm less repulsed said I might as well inquire why we'd sell everything to design up insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment simple then that is some excuse but I have other reasons you know I have reason and it ends with that almost kiss yeah it must have been electric on set that day yeah no that was however I have to be with your family a bunch of connection by your mother your three younger sisters even on vacation your father that's what I love about Jays work his rhythm sorry this is good him for everyone no because I'm gonna go it's like technical kind this chat but i'm i love dialogue that's a speed i love because i think like you and me are doing we think we speak at the same time i think like you know you're playing a character who's super bright you want them to be thinking and speaking really fast and then when you have that cause like when they really kiss you feel that energy so much in that pause did lee murder for taking up so much of your time I really enjoy it being a speed and so does Jay so I think we've always been interested in like working with that rhythm I have the next dance Miss Elizabeth particular scene in that film and you can tell it like the film but when you're dancing you have to do an ornate danced whilst kind of battling each other was that the one that's all one shot yes yeah I talked about the dance so you want to remark on the size of the room or the number of couples it's great there's no sat as well I'm perfectly happy Todd large please advise me of what you would like most to him do for present because again it's like you know mostly in film you cut it all up so it's cut up into a million different pieces and you shoot if you're million different angles so as the actor you kind of often you don't have to find the actual rhythm because actually sometimes the editor will find it afterwards whereas if you're doing it all in one take the power is sort of with the actor you have to get it spot on because there's only gonna be one take you can't cut away to anything so I really enjoy that it's it's fun it's like the pressures on but it's real I'm imagining here's a thrill yeah did you know at the time obviously she got an Oscar nomination for it but Saoirse Ronan is going to rule the world at some point time doesn't have to be this evening it's impossible Friday any what I'm good at voices your deep investment so we'll read it out off to dinner Brian a did you read this letter yes Briony here we are my chalk tail she's incredible that film but insist you try it in that moment on set with all the partying or whatever I'm guessing she wasn't at all well she definitely wasn't she was about 11 or 12 yeah just to be very clear the yes eleven-year-old Saoirse Ronan or twelve-year-old Saoirse Ronan was not partying with you in Joe's microphone act the Sheik delivers amazing performance but we do note that on set you go she's gonna be yeah she's still you know I mean yeah like an onset in the rehearsal room the thing about Saoirse is that whatever that talent is is something that is utterly virtuoso utter like she didn't learn it from it's utterly within there and you could see that at 11 or 12 or however I mean completely because she's got this very Irish accent and there she is Jane was terribly kept English and it was completely flawless like she's astonishing I mean how many three Oscars what is she 22 now 23 maybe like insane she's insanely talented many ways I'm not okay with it let's just agree that jaesuk always the best yeah yeah yeah was never meant to be read No did you keep the green grass I know everyone's obsessed with it and people have written articles about it but no I break you ROK's oh no maybe I didn't break my all but I definitely broke most of them I could yeah I can see that happening probably the sex scene and a dress like that mm-hmm it was all laser-cut at the front so all of the patterns were laser-cut and literally if you touched it like that so if I put a coat on over the top of it it so they had so many the tops we're constantly being resewn and redone and redone and redone and redone you suffer for your do you mean I mean I didn't it wasn't my soul is suffering for the art yeah thanks for watching if you like that then do watch these videos or you can listen to my podcast called Radio One's scream time oh and do not forget to hit that subscribe button you can now get more Radio 1 in your life by downloading the BBC sounds app or the BBC iPlayer app search for full-length versions of these interviews by typing in movies with Ally plum

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Length: 6min 51sec (411 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 11 2019