- Title: A Life in Pictures 2018: Keira Knightley on Star Wars
- Date: 17th December 2018
- Summary: A Life in Pictures
- Description:Keira Knightley was interviewed by Jason Solomons for BAFTA's A Life in Pictures series at their Piccadilly headquarters in London, U.K. on Friday 17 December 2018. KK: I mean I didn?t know what I was playing in Star Wars and I?m still kind of?I was hired and they didn?t tell me what part it was and a lot of the times I was Natalie Portman?s stand-in and sometimes there was this character where I was dressed in the same clothes Natalie was dressed in so I didn?t quite know what it was. But it was still very exciting. JS: Didn?t she do your voice in the end? KK: I think she did my voice in the end, yeah. It was all quite confusing and I didn?t know if I was ever meant to be in the film or if they were just using me as the kind of?because she was sixteen so she couldn?t legally work in England all the hours so they?d suddenly bring me in to do the wide shots. So it was quite a surprise that there was actually a part there at the end at all. JS: It?s such a massive undertaking. I don?t know if it passed you by how big it? KK: I was twelve and it was really funny my mum and dad didn?t want me to do it at all. They said, ?it?ll be really boring, we don?t know what it is, don?t do it.? And I was doing a TV thing at the time called Coming Home where I was playing a young Emily Mortimer, and it was the first sort of character that I?d got and I was loving every single second of it, like absolutely adoring it and then I went on to Star Wars and I didn?t know what I was doing and it was very big and I didn?t know anyone, so weirdly what I remember from that time is coming home because it was the first time I?d felt like I?d acted and then Star Wars is the thing that?s followed me ever since because I do look like Natalie Portman and that?s fair enough, you know, but I don?t really remember?apart from falling off the back of a golf cart in front of Ewen McGregor and only being in a bathrobe and knickers and tights and it being the most embarrassing experience of my entire life, I still remember that.
- Collection: BAFTA
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:BAFTA
- Keywords: BAFTA; British Academy of Film & Television; A Life in Pictures; 2018; Keira Knightley; 195 Piccadilly; Celebrity; Event; Arrives; Showbiz; Arts; Entertainment; Star Wars; acting
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Transmission Date:17/12/2018
- Decade: 2010s