Keira Knightley gets topless for the January 2008 issue of Interview magazine. She should have taken a page out of Victoria Beckham’s Elle cover (see below) and put a shirt on under those suspenders. I think we can safely say this is not a flattering picture of the usually photogenic Ms. Knightley. In the interview, Keira talks about her new movie, and her penchant for taking her clothes off.
How was the photo shoot? We ended by taking my clothes off again. How does that always happen?
Why do you think? I don’t know. Because I say yes, I suppose.
Do you ever get the feeling people are looking at you as an old-school movie star? I think it has more to do with the films that I’ve done. If you watch Atonement, the look of my character, Cecilia Tallis, is incredibly stylized and movie star-esque for that time. But I think different people have seen me in different ways. I started out being very much “girl next door,” and now I’ve gone into a bit of Hollywood-glamour phase.
There were so many species of loss in [your upcoming film Atonement]—there’s the loss of a girl, the loss of a woman, the loss of a love. Which did you relate to the most? All of them. That’s the power of it. Everybody has regrets. Everybody feels guilty about something, though hopefully not for something as bad as what happens in the movie. But that’s what is wonderful about the book and the film—you understand where these people are coming from. The situation may be completely different from ones I’ve experienced or that most people have experienced, but the core emotions are the same—that we all make mistakes, and sometimes we’re horrendous to each other. It’s the Robbie character [played by James McAvoy] that I find truly heartbreaking, because at the beginning he’s really Christ-like in his goodness—he’s a selfless, perfect person—and in a funny way I don’t think we can ever handle it when someone is that good, so what we do is destroy them.
Keira should seriously consider saying “no” the next time some photographer asks her to take her clothes off. She is a pretty girl, no doubt, but I think I’ve seen enough of her pale bony ass body on the news stands.
