Atonement: Keira Knightley Talks Cigs and Sex
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Keira Knightley and James McAvoy should teach lessons on how to give a good junket. The Atonement beauties were in full-on talk-show mode at the press day for their film, and they've got every reason to smile: Atonement is a sweeping, intimate adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel. See it because you are the kind of person who loves Titanic. See it because there is a steadicam shot of war-torn Dunkerque that will take your breath away. Now then, let's get dirty!
Battered = Drunk: Scotsman McAvoy made me feel like I was back working at Tiger Beat. He's got a boy-band cuteness, yet he's really natural and funny.
Here's what he had to say about the celebration following the grueling steadicam shot: "We got f--king battered! The camera operator, Peter Robertson, he and I went back to the hotel that night. And we got quite drunk. I woke up in the woods at, like, 7 o'clock in the morning. And Peter was lying behind me. And we kept hearing this noise, and then we realized it was golf balls. We were on a golf course!"
Now, imagine how crazy this guy will get on Oscar night.
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Garbo's Smokin': Knightley's character is almost always smoking in the movie, which makes me happy, because it's true to the period. She works the cigarettes quite well, too. "What we were trying to do was really go back to that very 1940s style of filmmaking, and you go back to any of those films and it's a cigarette on the go the whole time," she said. "Greta Garbo, I watched a lot for her cigarette action. She has a great way of holding it. And there was some fantastic Bette Davis butt action as well."
Bookshelves Can Too Be Sexy: Oh, finally, there's a sex scene worth talking about! The action goes down in a library, and it's all about the bookshelf. "I don't remember that it was particularly comfortable," said Knightley. "I was hoisted up. But they made the bookshelf for it, specially made to make it easier. It was quite athletic."
Seriously, who's gonna start the letter-writing campaign to get Brookstone to start selling these?





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