EDINBURGH, Scotland – Some actresses spend their careers avoiding sexy scenes. For Keira Knightley, it’s all in a day’s work. “I always bare my breasts,” the British actress admitted at a press conference on Wednesday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. “It’s not like it’s only in this film!”
Knightley’s latest revealing role comes in “The Edge of Love,” where she plays Vera Phillips, a married woman vying for the attentions of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (“Brothers and Sisters”’ Matthew Rhys).
The actress went partially nude during a scene with onscreen husband Cillian Murphy after director John Maybury asked her to remove her bra.
“I said, ‘All right then.’ It was very simple.” Knightley said, according to People. “It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.”
Knightley’s previous steamy moments include her role in another period piece, last year’s “Atonement,” but this time was a little more awkward than usual: her mom wrote the script.
“I didn’t add to any of the sex scenes when she decided to play the character of Vera,” Keira’s mom, Sharman Macdonald, told the Sun. “I don’t watch her shooting the sex scenes.”
Still, the playwright and screenwriter seemed pleased with the film, the first collaboration between mother and daughter.
“I found Keira hugely inspiring when I first started it,” she said.
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But when it came to her singing scenes, the British actress needed much more persuasion. On hearing she had to sing live in front of the cast and 100 extras, she said, “I thought I was going to die. My knees actually started buckling.”
The film was written by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley’s mother, who says her actress daughter was the inspiration for writing the period romance that also stars Sienna Miller, 26, and Matthew Rhys (Brothers and Sisters.)
“I wasn’t particularly pleased that Shar put singing into the script – in the first couple of takes I sounded like a apubescent boy,” says Knightley, who calls her mom Shar and instead of mother.
At the film’s premiere in Scotland on Wednesday, Knightley (in a cream Chanel jumpsuit) and Miller (in a Jasmine de Milo dress) walked the red carpet holding hands.
The two fashionable costars “are incredibly warm in the film and that’s the way they are in life,” says mom Macdonald. “They knew each other slightly before and then they just completely bonded on the film. I hope they will be friends for life!”
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How awkward was that! Her mother who wrote the sex scenes while the daughter will act on it.. lolz..
and they call each other by their first names? Wow! They must really have a good relationship. Thinking about it, me calling my mother her first name? uh-ah! Weird. Keira was cute when she said “I wasn’t particularly pleased that Shar put singing into the script – in the first couple of takes I sounded like a apubescent boy” hahaha.. Gotta watch that movie. Seems interesting especially on the singing part. hehehe..
