Keira Knightley is the stick-thin, chic… and did I mention stick-thin cover girl for Elle, March 2010. Were she any other actress I would be bashing out a petition, in all caps, about how it’s a travesty that she has been Photoshopped out of existence; her waist long gone, her hips erased, and her entire body about the width of one of my thighs. But we all know she’s just this lean in real life. I’m not mad at her for it as she’s always been this slender, I’m just saying. I am mad at her for that weave. What, don’t look at me like that, it needed to be said.
Her interview and photos from her Elle magazine March 2010 cover shoot.
Knightley on criticism, her upcoming projects, and the importance of honesty.
- On her character in The Misanthrope: “Jennifer’s kind of a crazy mix of being a complete bitch—confident and terrifying—yet she’s incredibly young and is probably being exploited way more than she actually realizes.”
- On criticism of her acting skills: “Oh, they still say that! Every time I do an interview with the English press, one of their questions is, ‘How do you feel knowing that everyone thinks you’re a shit actress?’ ”
- On surrounding herself by people who tell her the unvarnished truth: “You have to be selective about the people whose advice and opinions you take. I know [my parents] would never tell me I was shit because they were trying to hurt me. It would always come from a very sincere place.”
- On her upcoming film Last Night: “When we were making it, the arguments on set were just amazing about whether mental infidelity is better or worse than physical infidelity. There was a huge gender divide on the question. Every single woman said that mental infidelity is 10 times worse than [an emotionless assignation]. And most men I spoke with said that it’s the physical act that would be the ultimate betrayal.”
