Keira Knightley covers Elle UK magazine March 2011. Some lower quality scans were out a few days ago, as I mentioned before, but these are the first that were good enough to be worth publishing. Knightley covers the UK issue of Elle as styled and photographed by Tom Ford. I have the same opinion of these pictures as I had last week; they’re pretty, in their own way, if sleepy, and they make the actress look high/ glassy-eyed (she looks almost like she has pink eye in one of the pictures. She looks like she just woke up from a nap in the rest). Photos from her spread below, along with quotes about the pressures of young Hollywood.
- On how fame meant she missed out on developing social skills amongst people her own age: ‘I had an amazing time (starring in films), it was extraordinary, but the difference was between my age and experience. I’d experienced a lot, work-wise, but as far as normal progression… I’d never sat in pubs with friends, I’d never been out clubbing. Any of the things you normally do at uni, I’d bypassed. So on one level I was very grown-up and on another level with the whole social thing, I was really far behind.’
- On dreading social gatherings like parties, because she struggles to make conversation and ends up looking like an ‘ice queen: ‘Going into a room full of people at a party I find one of the most terrifying things in the entire world. I normally last about 10 minutes. I’m a complete failure. I went to one the other day. Standing in the corner, couldn’t find anything to say, just ran out. Awful. My friends are like, ‘What are you, an idiot? What’s the matter with you?’ I just can’t. I get completely paralysed with shyness, just totally paralysed. One of my friends was like, ‘You turn into an ice queen. What is it? You just turn into a b***h.’ And I don’t mean to look like a b***h, but I just don’t know what to say. This is the problem with a shy person being famous.’
- On considering cutting her Internet connection, so she’s more likely to spend her free time productively: ‘Do you know what it is? It’s that I’m the laziest f**ker in the entire world. It’s true. And stagnation is always really, really imminent. I can literally just sit and not do anything for hours and hours and hours and if there is something completely mind-numbing to do, like surfing the internet or watching crappy TV, I’ll do it and then I’ll feel s**t about myself. So I try and get rid of it.’
- On being fascinated by UK ballroom dance competition Strictly Come Dancing. ‘A lot of my friends don’t have TVs either. It might be spreading. But what’s nice is that when I do see it, it’s such a treat. I did a photoshoot in Cornwall recently and a friend of mine was on the shoot and we literally just sat in my room watching Strictly Come Dancing. We were like, ‘This is amazing.; We were talking about that for weeks afterwards.’
