Keira Knightley recently admitted that she is not interested in watching the films she stars in.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2 The Scott Mills Breakfast Show on November 3, Woman in cabin 10 The actress shares the real reason she doesn’t watch her own movies.
“It’s funny because my relationship to a work is obviously different from that of the people who look at it,” says the forty-year-old.
Keira noted that some classic films have become people’s favorites and they watch them again and again.
As for the actress, she confides that either she hasn’t watched them, or she has watched them once.
Sharing her reason, Keira mentioned: “It’s not a particularly pleasant experience to look at your own face… It’s very strange.”
When Scott asked, “Have you ever seen Pirates of the Caribbean?”
To what, the Atonement The actress responds: “I never saw the third one, I saw the second one at the premiere, but I never saw the third one.”
“I just feel like there’s too much face. There’s so much face. Very close-up, big face… It’s just that no one needs to see that,” Keira joked.
Elsewhere in the interview, the Black doves The actress also reveals that she “struggles” to remember her roles because she doesn’t look at her work.
“A lot of people I know never watch theirs, so I’m more on that side than anything else,” Keira points out.
Therefore, the Bend it like Beckham The actress says she “forgets about them and it’s quite funny now when people come up to me and talk about films that they know very, very well and I’m most definitely there and I’m very definitely in it.”
Meanwhile, Keira finally adds that she only saw “Love in fact once”.
“I saw it at the premiere and I never saw it. I think I was eighteen. So over twenty years ago I saw Love in fact“, concluded the actress.
