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 Keira Knightley
Interview By: Bruce Bluett
*Click Here For Another Interview with Keira Knightley In an era when marriage was the only dream allowed for young ladies, Elizabeth Bennet defied convention. Putting love above power and money was taboo…have we really changed all that much? What I can say is that Pride and Predjudice is a long lasting examination of these issues of gender, class, and the human heart. So too is this adaptation, starring Keira Knightley as the rebellious and passionate Elizabeth Bennet. The first hurdle of updating a piece like this for a modern audience is treating the time period in a way that translates to today. Director Joe Wright set the film many years before it was originally supposed to take place. England in 1796 was a place of great turmoil, confusion, and yet there remained the ever-present human desires of love and power. This, however, is not an era the young Knightley would like to visit, for it would be “too smelly” in her words. Beyond the smell, the film explore the issues of class and gender through the specific behavior of genteel etiquette. Elizabeth, always the rebel, throws a chink in the armor of the well entrenched British way of life. Knightley explains how the art of deviance might be implemented for her character. “You have to know what the rules are, you have to know the etiquette in order to rebel from it. She puts her elbow on the table, she slumps, she laughs without covering her mouth. It’s fun to know when your breaking the rules and when you’re not”. Besides etiquette, something as simple as everyday dress was anything but routine. The difficulty and complexity of costume was something that was a hurdle in 1700’s England and the movie studios of the present day. “It gets quite annoying actually,” says Knightley. “You usually just resent the costumes. You learn tricks so it will take 20 minutes instead of 2 hours. So I think that’s nice because it brings a real quality to the costumes, they’re lived in. I had some input for the first time. What colors what materials. They were my costumes. They’re scruffy and not completely beautiful but they are the characters’.” Some of the film’s signature moments are in the dancing scenes. Preparing for them presented a challenge for the actors and filmmakers alike. Much preparation went into the delicate yet electrifying moments of the dance. “I loved doing the dancing scenes, that what we did in rehearsals, we had three weeks of rehearsals which is completely unusual. We had live music so it was like we were in an actual ball. It’s incredibly sensual. That sexual chemistry between Elizabeth and Darcy is there, you almost don’t have to play it because its there in the dance,” she explains. These sensual moments are few and far between, for good ... |
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