Name After Soviet Figure Skater And Secret Role In Star Wars: 5 Rare Facts About Keira Knightley

2023 Author: Henry Pass | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 21:12

Today, March 26, Keira Knightley turned 35 years old. On the birthday of the British actress, we decided to recall rare facts about her that betray the strong character of the birthday girl, her sensible approach to fashion and support for the ideas of feminism.

Named after the Soviet figure skater

Kira's parents Will Knightley and Sherman MacDonald chose a sonorous and unusual name for the future star. As it turned out, the actress was named after the famous Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova. Once the mother of our heroine accidentally saw on TV Ivanova's phenomenal performance and was so delighted with her technique that she promised herself to name her daughter after the athlete. True, there was confusion with the spelling of the name. Sherman recorded her daughter as Keira and only later found out that Kira would be correct. The parents decided not to change the spelling and leave everything as it is.

Was Natalie Portman's stunt double

Kira is still confused with Natalie Portman, but once Knightley replaced her colleague on the set of the movie Star Wars. Episode I: The Phantom Menace . First, Kira was taken on the role of Queen Amidala's double Sabe, and later George Lucas asked Knightley to replace Portman in several episodes. It's funny that even mothers confused the actresses when they applied makeup.

Was going to marry the star of "50 Shades of Gray"

Now Kira is happily married to musician James Ryton, together the couple are raising two daughters, Edie and Delilah, and next year they will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the novel. But not everyone remembers that for two years - from 2003 to 2005 - Knightley met with actor Jamie Dornan, now known to the viewer from the trilogy "50 shades of gray". At that time - and even now - the actress was much more famous than her boyfriend, and more often than not, Jamie was signed by "Knightley's companion

Was published in a wedding dress

There is no star more sensibly suited to fashion than Kira. Just imagine: the actress three times in a short period of time appeared in public in a milk-white Chanel dress, and one of the reasons was her … her own wedding with James Ryton in May 2013. However, in the same dress, Kira shone at the BAFTA ceremony five (!) Years before the wedding - then in the company of another boyfriend, Rupert Friend. So Kira is not superstitious either. Finally, for the third time in a midi dress with a fluffy skirt, the actress was seen at a charity event in London after the wedding - and rightly so, why should he gather dust in the closet when it suits our heroine so well?

She forbade her daughter to watch cartoons

Long before the #MeToo movement flourished, Kira openly raised issues of equality. In particular, she was upset by the disproportionately different fees of actors and actresses. The actress also reflected feminist views in the upbringing of her eldest daughter Eddie. So, Kira and her husband removed all cartoons with a “sexist” plot from their home video library: “We do not show Eddie Cinderella, because in her a rich guy saves the main character - this is not close to me, the girl can save herself! "The Little Mermaid" is also prohibited: why should a woman give her vote for a man? True, I like the songs from there."

By the way, in a recent interview with Porter, Knightley admitted that parental censorship no longer exists and Eddie watches all the cartoons that she likes.