Obsessed like the rest of us
The Telegraph has a profile on Keira Knightley in which she talks about her lifelong passion for Pride and Prejudice.
Knightley first encountered the book on tape when she was seven years old. “I was - and still am - dyslexic, so I couldn’t read,” she says. “I always wanted to be an actress and had been asking for an agent ever since I was three years old. My mother said that if I came to her every day with a book in my hand and a smile on my face I would get an agent. I got around it with audio-books and became obsessed with Pride and Prejudice. I listened to the tape for years and years and when the BBC TV version came out [in 1995] I became even more obsessed. Finally, when I was about 14, I read the book for the first time.
“When you’re young you think you know everything and you have all the answers. Elizabeth Bennet is a character who is experiencing things for the first time and so she’s making mistakes all the time. She’s strong, intelligent and very witty, but she makes the most horrendous mistakes and sometimes you just want to shake her. The fact that she’s really annoying somehow makes her even more loveable.”
The article also notes that the Rosamund Pike will talk about her role as Jane Bennet in the Saturday Magazine. We’ll keep an eye out for it.
September 3rd, 2005 at 9:23 am
I’m starting to like this girl very much. *grin*
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:27 am
Same here