'Too skinny' Keira Knightley at the Toronto Film Festival
www.telegraph.co.uk - 8th Sep 2008
Keira Knightley: The 23-year-old actress wore a strapless grey gown which showed off her slender frame.
Her new film is a biopic of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, an 18th century society beauty and great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.
The famous portrait of Georgiana by Thomas Gainsborough shows a woman with an ample figure, considered to be the fashionable silhouette of the day.
But the film makes no attempt to hide
Knightley's natural frame, leading several critics to say she has been miscast.
The Daily Telegraph review noted that
Knightley "looks woefully, painfully thin throughout... it's hard to listen to what she's saying when all you want to do is feed her chips."
Another critic called her "far too skinny... in a time when the hour-glass figure was fashionable".
However, others have praised the film and it is being talked about as a possible Oscar contender, with Ralph Fiennes' performance as the cold-hearted Duke of Devonshire singled out for praise.
Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival,
Knightley said: "It was such an honour to actually be given this role. It was so incredible. There are relatively few leading roles for women, so to actually have one land on your doorstep was fantastic. The fact that people are now liking it is so exciting, so I don't think you can ask for anything more than that."
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“I think it was wonderful and an amazing opportunity and those filmes were just extraordinary and I was extremely lucky to be a part of them,” Knightley said.
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