Keira Knightley has effectively grown up in the spotlight, since the success of Bend It Like Beckham back in 2002.
Speaking to Marie Claire in their May issue, Keira Knightley talks about the price she has to pay to be in a job that she loves.
“The machine that allows you to make movies, the trade-off, [requires] you to sell it,” the actress says. “Selling it means making yourself a public figure. You can’t cultivate the mystery. My problem is I like mystery.”
She’s under no illusions when it comes to the fickleness of the industry either. “It’s a very insecure profession,” she says. “So when I started getting work, it was like this tiny space opened up and I needed to jump in and go with it. It could all go tomorrow.”
She’s also engaged to musician James Righton, but admits that the big fancy wedding isn’t something that interests the couple. She says: “We’re not big-wedding types. I don’t need to have all that. I’m just trying to enjoy the engagement bit. My parents are together after 40 years. The fights are there, but they love each other. It’s not like the first three months, the first two years, whatever it is, but I think it gets more interesting, or I hope so.”
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Posted by Amy Power.