Toronto 2011: 'Dangerous Method' Star Keira Knightley On Self Esteem, Skype Casting company, Spankings (Video)

Now, I'd the chance to talk -- quite extensively -- using the actress Keira Knightley, whom I've lengthy respected among the top talents and special gems working today. The 26-year-old was within Toronto to advertise David Cronenberg's A Harmful Method, by which she shows Sabine Spielrein, a Russian lady with serious mental issues who, within the late 1800s, came between your pioneering psychoanalysts Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The film had its world premiere in the Venice Film Festival two days ago, its United States premiere in the Telluride Film Festival a week ago, is screening in the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival throughout now, and may certainly bring Knightley the 2nd Oscar nomination of her career. FILM REVIEW: A Harmful Method When I authored having seen Method in Telluride: "I had been impressed because she was prepared to be so vulnerable on camera... and i believe that they could interact with enough individuals to score an Oscar jerk... that's, if [The new sony Pictures Classics] and she or he are prepared to... push her in supporting (which looks wide-open this season) rather than lead (that is absolutely packed)." Knightley is definitely an interesting example herself. She understood what she thought about being doing in a very youthful age ("I requested a real estate agent after i was three, apparently"), labored throughout the majority of her childhood ("It had been always, kind of, my escape -- and, kind of, a secret, because I wasn't permitted to discuss it in schoolInch), and grew to become an enormous star -- because of starring roles in Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Pirates from the Caribbean: The Curse from the Black Gem (2003), and Love Really (2003), which were launched within roughly one-year period of time -- within the thick of her teenage life, just like she was looking for her very own identity ("18, 19, 20, 21 is very a troublesome time, I believe, in anybody's existence, whether you're within the public eye or otherwise, therefore the added factor to be adopted around by categories of paparazzi, and being discussed, and everything was very strange, specially when you're, type of, going, 'I don't know who I'm or things i want' "). PHOTOS: 13 Movies to understand in the Toronto Film Festival When her work first started to earn her accolades -- she grew to become the 3rd youngest lady to ever score a best actress Oscar jerk, for Pride & Prejudice (2005) when she only agreed to be 20, and 2 years later starred inside a film that obtained a best picture Oscar nomination (when there have been only five), Atonement (2007) -- she didn't understand what to create from it. "It didn't cause me to feel feel validated whatsoever," she explained. "I'd really low self-confidence... I usually thought the negative stuff and that i never thought the positive stuff." Recently, though, she's become better about accepting praise and dealing with celebrity. And, throughout everything, she's handled herself without a penny but class and sophistication. Right now, there's really nobody else like her. She has become a worldwide star, but has firmly resolved that they is only going to live and mainly operate in England. Unlike a lot of her American contemporaries, her only looks in tabloids could be credited towards the nosy speculation of others ("she's awfully skinny, isn't she?"), no transgression of her very own. And she or he is possibly the only real youthful actress who are able to effortlessly traverse between huge popcorn films, such as the first three within the Pirates from the Caribbean franchise (2003, 2006, 2007), Love Really, and King Arthur (2004), and pure art-house films like Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and also the Duchess (2008), showing up perfectly in your own home both in. COVER STORY: The way the $20 Million 'Dangerous Method' Got Made It had been introduced now that her next project will reunite her with Joe Wright, her director on Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, for an additional ambitious literary adaptation: Anna Karenina, that has formerly been performed about the giant screen by the kind of Greta Garbo (1935) and Vivien Leigh (1948). Knightley explained, "I am talking about, it's a monumental book, also it's an extremely difficult job. Therefore it's destined to be great." During the period of our time together, we talked about the suggestions above, plus much more. Listed here are excerpts from the portions that worked together with her performance inside a Harmful Method... On planning for that film: "I'd never heard about Sabine before clearly I'd heard about Freud and Jung, however i didn't fully realize anything about the subject -- I vaguely understood it had been about sex which parents get blamed a great deal, but aside from which i didn't fully realize anything. So the moment I understood which i was gonna get it done I called Christopher [Hampton, the film writer of both Atonement and Method] and stated, 'Just help, please!'" The moments by which her character is hysterical: "I sitting during my bathroom for a few hrs and drawn faces at myself... I needed so that it is distorting It's essential that it had been shocking... Really, reading through about this, doing research in it, we required it lower a number of notches than It could have been, because many of the items that you read -- you simply think, 'Nobody would accept is as true!' It's really extreme." Almost turning lower the film due to the spanking moments: "Initially when i first browse the script, I figured, 'The script was fascinating, also it's David, and that i actually want to use David, however i read individuals two moments and merely went, 'I don't think will be able to do this,' particularly since it's age the web it's destined to be everywhere I don't want that available'... I called him as much as really transform it lower... I stated to him, 'Look, I really like you, I really like the script, I really like the smoothness, however i really don't know will be able to play individuals moments'... He stated, 'Look, basically'm gonna do them, they're destined to be clinical they're not destined to be sexy, they're not destined to be voyeuristic for the reason that way.' And That I thought, 'Okay, well I'm able to realize that. As lengthy because it's clinical also it's not some, kind of, strange sexy spanking factor.'" Performing the spanking moments: "There is a box that they hit, so he was nowhere near me, thankfully! Used to do really tell Michael before among the moments -- I had been like, 'I've got a burglar guard outdoors. You touch me and that he's gonna break your legs!' And that he was like, 'Keira, you're associated with a mattress. You're not necessarily capable of state that.' I stated, 'I guess you're right.'... [Used to do] a few shots of vodka -- certainly -- in advance, after which a few portions of champagne like a celebration of never needing to do this again!" Toronto Worldwide Film Festival David Cronenberg Keira Knightley A Harmful Method