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Keira Knightley on Harper's Bazaar cover

Keira Knightley gets gothic in Harper's Bazaar as she talks Anna Karenina and happiness.

If you have a Harper's Bazaar magazine subscription you'll have just received the September issue, which features Keira Knightley on the cover, modelling the very best of Autumn/Winter's gothic glamour.

The actress is just about to release her latest film - the adaptation of Russian novel Anna Karenina directed by Joe Wright, who Knightley has previously worked with on both Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. If the last two films the pair worked on together are anything to go by then the film is bound to be a critically-acclaimed success.

The film has an all-star cast, so she is joined by Jude Law and Aaron Johnson and she had nothing but good things to say about them. On working with Law, she said: "He's lovely and just a complete professional. You naturally put him in the leading-man, good-looking roles, which you think, 'Oh, you don't need to be very good to do that.' But he is, actually, and when you look at his body of work, he again and again goes for the quite strange character roles. He's absolutely on it."

And on Aaron Johnson she said: "He is very confident. But he's also got whatever it is, and I'm never sure quite what it is that makes an actor good, but he's got it."

Knightley admits that playing a character such as Anna Karenina was difficult, as she is so complex and she'd often bring her work home with her. Nowadays she's much cheerful - especially as she has recently become engaged to boyfriend Jamie Righton (keyboard player in the Klaxons).

But what makes her truly happy? "A good book, a nice meal, a lovely girls' evening, you know. I do like a pub - gin makes me cry though; I'm a vodka girl. And I'm s**t at karaoke, but on occasion, a bit of karaoke as well. A good dance I think is very, very necessary." She sounds like a girl after our own hearts!

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Posted by Claire Sharp.

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