Keira and James for Entretainment Weekly!

Sorry for the absence guys! I'm here again! Here's the shoot that Kei and James did for Entretainment Weekly (loved it). Keira looks sooooo fine! never looked better. And next is the interview:

'Atonement' Stars Talk Oscar
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy tell us about filming their hot and heavy love scene, script battles, and what it's like in the eye of the Academy Award campaign storm.

If you'll pardon Keira Knightley for a minute, she needs a smoke. ''It's really rude to do this,'' she says in the middle of an interview on the rooftop of New York's posh Gramercy Park Hotel. ''Would you mind terribly if I just went and got my cigarettes and came straight back?''
With that, she's off for a few minutes to fetch some tobacco and papers. ''Are you smoking again?'' asks her Atonement costar James McAvoy as she returns and starts rolling her own.
''I'm smoking because there were so many f---ing photographers outside,'' she says. ''I thought, F--- it — I'll have a cigarette.''

Her lungs won't get a break anytime soon. Neither Knightley nor McAvoy, who also got snapped by the photogs outside the hotel, can expect much privacy during the current Oscar season. Atonement — director Joe Wright's heart-tugging, decades-spanning adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed 2002 novel — stands to become one of this year's top Academy Award nominees, thanks to its epic story line, lush cinematography, and strong performances from Knightley (as upper-crust Cecilia Tallis) and McAvoy (as servant's son Robbie Turner), both of whom earned Golden Globe nominations for the film. (And see our Oscar predictions, including the nominations we expect for Atonement.)

Of course, it's not the first awards-season tour of duty for either of them. Two years ago, Knightley, 22, became one of the youngest Best Actress nominees ever with her performance in Pride & Prejudice (also directed by Wright), while McAvoy, 28, made the rounds last year as a costar of The Last King of Scotland, for which Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor prize. Over assorted vodka cocktails, the British starlet and her Scottish leading man discussed the politics of Oscar, their fights over the Atonement script, and their doozy of a sex scene.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Since so much of Atonement rides on the chemistry between the two of you, how nervous were you to shoot your big love scene?KEIRA KNIGHTLEY: You have to believe that they will wait for each other for five years based on that one moment. So it had to be erotic, and it had to be passionate enough. We talked about it a lot. Most directors just go, ''Oh, you know what to do. Just get on with it.'' Well, actually, I don't know what to do. This is a relative stranger, and I'm in front of a group of strangers and I don't know what to do. Joe was incredibly precise. He had storyboarded the whole thing: My foot coming out of my shoe, biting my lip at the end, the way my head turns — that was all completely him. And during it, because it was so close and it was on a Steadicam, we didn't know what part of the body the shot was on. So Joe literally shouted [directions] out as we were doing it.

How close by was he? JAMES MCAVOY: Five feet away? Four feet away? At one point, thinking that he was being very funny, he shouted, ''All right, Keira, next I want you to wank him off!'' And nobody laughed. KNIGHTLEY: No, because we thought that's what he meant! I thought, Wait a minute. And then I heard this little voice go, ''Sorry!''
NEXT PAGE: ''I know that Joe was asked by the studio at some point to take the word out, clearly because they thought that people would get really offended by it. And Joe said the immortal words, ''The c--- stays in the picture!''

To read the whole interview enter here: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007870_20164475_20170430,00.html

No news

Hey everybody! There are no news and no pics today. It's been days since we've heard of Keira. Where are you, Kei??

Hey everybody!

Wow, that was a huge update :) I'm really tired haha, but I really want to make this work, and thanks so much to the four people, I think, that voted for you fave Keira's movie! I really appreciate it, and I hope this grows! I'm doing what I can here! And with all the love of the world! And also thanks to all the people that at least have seen this blog, really because it is all for you, and for Keira, of course, and I put so much effort in it.
Love Keira♥
and
Thank you very much :)
I'm very, very grateful.

Love to all,
Vicki.

The Duchess

Here are a couple pics of the set of Keira's upcoming film The Duchess.

Keira and Rupert are adorable ♥

(Full view, please)

Keira tops the list of "Hollywood Young Stars"

Washington, Oct 4 (ANI): 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Keira Knightley has topped a list of '25 Under 25: Hollywood's Hottest Young Stars', compiled by Moviefone.
The 22-year-old Brit actress was followed by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe at the second place.

'Transformers' actress Megan Fox and Michael Cera secured third and fourth places respectively.

Actress and Marilyn Manson's current ladylove Evan Rachel Wood rounded off the top five, at the fifth spot.

The list of '25 Under 25: Hollywood's Hottest Young Stars' is as follows:

1. Keira Knightley
2. Daniel Radcliffe
3. Megan Fox
4. Michael Cera
5. Evan Rachel Wood
6. Shia LaBeouf
7. Emily Blunt
8. Kristen Stewart
9. Elijah Kelley
10. Abigail Breslin
11. Freddie Highmore
12. Alice Braga
13. Emile Hirsch
14. AnnaSophia Robb
15. Mischa Barton
16. Shareeka Epps
17. Jamie Bell
18. Dakota Blue Richards
19. Jonah Hill
20. Elle Fanning
21. Ellen Page
22. Zac Efron
23. Melonie Diaz
24. Josh Hutcherson
25. Scarlett Johansson (ANI)

Source: http://in.movies.yahoo.com/071004/139/6ljhc.html

Keira Flying

Keira Knightley on life after "Pirates"

At the Toronto Film Festival, recent Best Actress nominee Keira Knightley talks to EW.com about her success in more sophisticated fare after spending several years swashbuckling her way through the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series.

Could we be seeing the making of a great new actress-director team at this year's Toronto Film Festival? Could Keira Knightley and Joe Wright be the next Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz? The pair first met on 2005's well-received Pride & Prejudice; it was Wright's feature debut, and Knightley got a Best Actress nomination for her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet. Now they've both returned to Toronto — where Pride & Prejudice launched two years ago — with Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2002 novel, about a 13-year-old girl's lie and its consequences for two young lovers (Knightley and The Last King of Scotland's James McAvoy). The movie premiered to much praise at the festival on Monday night and is a possible Oscar contender this year.

EW.com talked to the 22-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star about why she wanted to make Atonement, how the Oscar nomination for Pride & Prejudice helped her career, and why she loves doing films in Britain.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you want to make this movie?

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY: It was definitely Joe. I knew I wanted to work with him as soon as we were done with Pride & Prejudice. I think the bond between actor and director is very similar to the chemistry between actors. It's rare, and when it happens, it's very exciting. And I think it creates — oh, I sound like a wanker! [Laughs] But, creatively, I think we work very well together for some reason.

What was appealing about the story?

I like the fact that I read the script and it made me sob, really sob. I cry a lot, but that kind of emotional reaction was extreme. The story was very heartbreaking. But [my taking the part] has much more to do with me looking for a more mature role, I wasn't really looking to play another girl on the cusp of womanhood. I felt that you couldn't really do that better than with [Pride & Prejudice's] Elizabeth Bennet, and I don't want to play the same thing again and again and again. So, you know, Atonement checked off a lot of boxes as far as roles go.

Are you grateful to be done with Pirates?

It was a huge commitment. It was amazing. It was an extraordinary group of people. And you don't make films for an audience of one. You make them to be enjoyed by many. And I think entertainment for entertainment's sake is fine, and escapism is fine. And Pirates is like a glass of champagne; it's got a lot of bubbles and they make you very happy. And that's great. But if I was doing only that, then I'd get incredibly bored. And two years is a long time to be doing that one thing. And I think I was really desperate to find something completely different.

Did you do Atonement after you were entirely done with those films?

Well, no. I did this one in the middle.

That's a weird juxtaposition.

It was strange. I had five months off, because of various hurricanes that were happening at the time in the Caribbean. And I said, Okay, I could either take five months off completely, or I could try to do something that's going to really challenge me.

Has getting nominated for an Oscar in 2006 changed things for you?

No, not really — apart from the fact that it was a wonderful kind of pat on the back. I know that sounds like nothing, but it was actually really needed at that point. Before Pride & Prejudice, I'd done Bend it Like Beckham and Pirates, and they were incredibly successful films, but I think people were very much looking at me going, ''Oh, she's a pretty face, there isn't much else to her.'' And I was incredibly aware of that. I think you're aware of everything that's written about you when you first start. And then you learn not to read all that. [Laughs] And I knew people had thought it was ridiculous that I was cast as Elizabeth Bennet. So when the reviews came out, it really helped.

What's next?

I've got a film coming out next year, which my mom [playwright Sharman Macdonald] wrote. It's The Edge of Love, which is about Dylan Thomas. I play his childhood sweetheart. It's with Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys. Hopefully, fingers crossed, that'll be a good one. And next week, I start a film called The Duchess, which is about Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. It's got Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling.

Is it important for you to keep doing British films? Do you want to keep shuffling between Hollywood and British film industries?

Of course. Of course!

Because other people would say, ''If you can make it in Hollywood ...''

Why would you do British films as well? Well, I think if you can possibly do both, then that's really amazing.

Hollywood isn't distracting enough to keep you there forever?

No, it's not. Obviously, I want to work there, it would be stupid for anyone not to. They make more films in Hollywood for English speaking actors than anywhere else in the world. Naturally, you're going to get more work there than you are in England. And the history of Hollywood if you're in movies is very, very exciting. But I'm British. That's the culture I come from. It fascinates me. I think also, you know, the British film industry is tiny, but at the moment, there's such a huge wealth of talent that it's a really exciting time. I think obviously we have incredible crews that work in Britain, and if I can help bring work there in a small way to make sure that those people are working, then that's great.

Are you more comfortable on a British set?

I don't know. I like going home at night and sleeping in my own bed. I travel a lot. And for Pirates, we were all away for two years. Once I got to the end of that, I said, ''Whew, I really want to do some work in England.''

This interview it's not quite new, but I really thought it was very interesting! (It's from September 12th) Anyway here's the source: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20054213_20054215_20056110,00.html

News on Atonement

Atonement climbed back up one place to No.2 at the UK box office last weekend, taking another £1.16m.

Atonement and Keira are already top of the polls for Oscar predictions. See the polls here: http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2008/gurus_070925.html

The LA Times has an Atonement audio interview with Keira. You can hear it here: http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2007/10/podcast-dishing.html