Keira Knightley Interview 4 by Martyn Palmer Previous Q What happened then? A Not a lot (laughs) After that lunch I basically phoned up my agent and said `anything this guy wants me to do I'll do it, I don't care..' It can be just a walk on, I don't care I'll do it. And plus the fact that you have this director who did something like Training Day and wants to come and do King Arthur film - that in itself is quite incredible. So I got quite excited and then, I didn't hear anything for three months (laughs). I thought `God, OK, I must have got that completely wrong. Maybe it was just me talking at him for hours....' Q So you really had to fight for this part... A I did. They finally phoned up and said `listen there's five of you left in the race, would you come and do a screen test with Clive Owen?' So I came in and again it went well and again I didn't hear anything for about a month and a half after that and it wasn't until I'd finished Pirates of the Caribbean, come home, gone back out to America to open Bend It Like Beckham that they said `come on, let's do it..' So it was very exciting, but it was such a long drawn out process. And it's really embarrassing when I'm sitting there talking to the other guys because they are all going `it was really quick..' and I'm thinking `not for me!' (laughs). But it was good because obviously I was working with Jerry (Bruckheimer) anyway, I would have hated it if they had kind of gone `oh she did a good job on that one so we may as well put her on this one...' It kind of felt better to have to really fight for it, because then at least you know that they want you and it's not just `oh she's a cool kid' or anything like that. It was `yes, she's good for the part...' So it was good to have to fight for it. Q You're more or less the only woman. How does it feel for an actress to be in the middle of a big production like this? A You have to keep focused andit's very easy to lose your focus. We did a scene last week which was one fifth of a page but it was an epic shot, it was entering this village and we had hundreds and hundreds of extras and we had to go into a small scene after that, And it is amazing to go from something where there are hundreds of people and millions of cameras everywhere to a really focused one on one with lots of dialogue. You have to be really focused on what you are  doing, because it;'s very easy to lose it and it's very easy to get fazed by it. We have more cameras on this than I've ever worked with before. On Pirates we maybe had four and this is like 12 on a big day and you have to be really focused, you do, definitely. I certainly forget that sometimes when were were doing the big scenes, I'm like `look at that! And that!' but I suppose that's quite good, I mean at least you are doing something, as opposed to sitting there blank (laughs). Q Great hair by the way.... A It's not mine (laughs). It's rather sweet though, isn't it. What's great is that I have long hair during the day and it just clips off so I can give it away at night. I have short hair at night. On Pirates I had extensions and they were in the entire time and they are very annoying, they turn into dreadlocks but this is just a nice little piece that clips in. Next		Home Interviews Antoine Fuqua Interview King Arthur Interview Arv Grewal Interview Asia Argento Interview Behind the Scenes of "War of the Worlds" Bernie Goldmann Interview Clive Owen Interview Dakota Fanning Interview Dennis Hopper Interview George A Romero Interview Greg Nicotero Interview The Hulk Press Conference Ang Lee Press Conference Ioan Gruffudd Interview John Leguizamo Interview Kathleen Kennedy Interview Keira Knightley Interview