Keira Knightley says she likes going topless on film, but singing really scares her


23 year-old Keira Knightley is trying to drum up interest in her new film with Sienna Miller about the two loves of poet Dylan Thomas, The Edge of Love The film is out in the UK and Ireland today, and features Knightley in a topless sex scene as well as singing in a nightclub. Knightley says that baring her breasts comes naturally to her and she dislikes filming sex scenes in a bra, but that singing for the camera was the scariest thing she’s ever done:

“I always bare my breasts,” she said at the press conference to promote The Edge of Love Wednesday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. “It’s not like it’s only in this film!”

The British actress, 23, is best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean films; last year she went au naturale in the period drama Atonement.

Referring to a scene in the wartime romance The Edge of Love with her onscreen husband Cillian Murphy, Knightley said: “It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.”

So when the director asked her to remove her bra, “I said, ‘All right then.'”

[From People.com]

According to Mr. Skin, Keira has been topless four times on film not counting this latest movie, and once on television. There was a nude butt supposedly of Keira’s character in the 2005 film Domino, but it was stunt double’s butt, not Keiras.

Kiera plays a singer in the Edge of Reason, and there’s a scene where she sings and it’s her actual voice, which is high and sweet. (Here’s a video of her singing scene.) Keira took voice lessons for the film, and she said earlier that “I’ve never been so frightened in my entire life” and “I never want to have to do it [sing] again.”

At the press conference for the film yesterday she elaborated on how truly terrified she was to sing, saying “I thought I was going to die. My knees actually started buckling.”

Keira is a trip. I can’t sing half as well as she can and would gladly reveal my awful voice before willingly going topless, but that’s why she’s an actress and I’m not.

Keira looks kind of starved to me. Her mother recently

[From People.com]

According to Mr. Skin, Keira has been topless four times on film not counting this latest movie, and once on television. There was a nude butt supposedly of Keira’s character in the 2005 film Domino, but it was stunt double’s butt, not Keiras.

Kiera plays a singer in the Edge of Reason, and there’s a scene where she sings and it’s her actual voice, which is high and sweet. (Here’s a video of her singing scene.) Keira took voice lessons for the film, and she said earlier that “I’ve never been so frightened in my entire life” and “I never want to have to do it [sing] again.”

At the press conference for the film yesterday she elaborated on how truly terrified she was to sing, saying “I thought I was going to die. My knees actually started buckling.”

Keira is a trip. I can’t sing half as well as she can and would gladly reveal my awful voice before willingly going topless, but that’s why she’s an actress and I’m not.

Keira looks kind of starved to me. Her mother recently blabbermouth says:

June 20, 2008 at 1:31 pm

►Knightley says that baring her breasts comes naturally to her …◄

Go on then…;)

  • Blonde Ambition says:
    June 20, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    If she was twice the size of everyone else trying out…

    …well I didn’t know stick people where real!!

  • bc says:
    June 20, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    “You can tell that she likes showing off her mini boobs since she’s always wearing such low cut outfits.”

    right… like in those last pictures? that comment sounded like something a high-school boy would say…

  • Dingles says:
    June 20, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    She technically has always been “thin,” but she used to be athletic, healthy thin, not gaunt thin. It’s too bad she feels she needs to look like a clothes hanger to get roles- she’d be absolutely gorgeous 20 lbs heavier than she is now.

  • velvet elvis says:
    June 20, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    It’s actually refreshing to see an actress with small breasts who hasn’t given in to the pressure to get breast implants.

  • Kaiser/ Hippacrat says:
    June 20, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    I adore Kiera, but she is getting too thin. And it’s not funny… I worry about my girl. That beautiful face and that razor-sharp body. *shudder*

    As far as topless scenes, I saw her itty-bitty booblettes in The Jacket. She was as flat as Adrian Brody during the love scene. Not really erotic, actually. But I’ll probably rent this movie because I heart Cillian Murphy.

  • Ginny says:
    June 20, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    I like the fact that she’s not ashamed to have smaller boobs, and even more like it that she doesn’t feel like she needs to get them enhanced. Not all of us have medium or big boobs, and I wish people could acknowledge it more that small boobs can be sexy too. Big ones don’t fit every body frame.

  • Bellatrix says:
    June 20, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    I love Keira. She seems to be such a genuine person. Even about her looks : she has such a tiny but überlong chest and small breasts but she isn’t ashamed of them.

    I am going to point out, again, that she has the most amazing stylist and makes great clothing choices.
    In real life, she has rather big thighs compared to the rest of her frame which is why she always hides her upperlegs under at least knee-length dresses (she’s never out in short dresses or skirts).

    Regarding her being thin: she has said before that she loses quite some weight after filming movies which are physically challenging. She was very thin just after the Pirates of the Caribbean movies 2 & 3.
    I still don’t think she is anorexic but simply a thin and very long girl.
    At the worst, she needs to build up some muscle but that’s all.

  • geronimo says:
    June 20, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Loved that, great voice, very atmospheric.

  • devilgirl says:
    June 20, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    I really like her. She is a good actress, seems to lead a pretty low key life and seems like a fairly nice person. She does the period pieces very well and can pull off a bit of comedy.

  • SR says:
    June 21, 2008 at 4:37 am

    I used to like her but she is promoting negative messages for women:
    Not only about weight and eating issues, but also about how women should be willing to strip in order to get parts in movies.

    Girls pick up these things.
    They will think that she is a star and look what a girl must do in order to be a star:

    Take your cloths off and be as thin as a skeleton.

    This is taking women back to their role as plain sex symbol that need to “sell” their body and subject themself to hunger in order to achieve a certain look.

    Her mother must be in denial or suffering from an unhealthy approach to food herself, is she thinks Keira “eats like a horse”.

  • Because I say So says:
    June 21, 2008 at 4:48 am

    SR: Your rant is better directed at all of Hollywood, not KK. I wouldn’t look at her and bemoan how the Feminist Movement just lost 20 years because of her baring her breasts and being a naturally thin person.
    Have you ever heard of Playboy? Or any of those other T & A mag’s that promote incredibly unrealistic bodies without surgical enhancement? And you rail at KK?

    Methinks you are in denial, not her mother.

  • paris herpes says:
    June 21, 2008 at 4:51 am

    She bares her chest because she’s got nothing to bare. She’s almost as flat as a boy…!

  • Mike says:
    June 21, 2008 at 7:06 am

    Who cares. She’s just a dumb young girl. By the time she gets some intelligence and has something worth saying, they won’t be putting her in movies, and no one will be listening.

    No one said life was fair.

  • Persistent Cat says:
    June 21, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    I can’t stand her and am loathe to see any movie if she’s in it, she’s just annoying. Especially that upside down smile she has.

    And she’s doing that annoying thing to get attention, “oh, look at me, I love being topless. Sex is great!!! Lalalala.” Yes yes, we see you, here’s some attention.