Globe and Mail - Keira Knightley is fresh off a plane from London – and thanks to the seven-hour flight and a five-hour time difference, she’s having something akin to a senior’s moment.
“My head’s already gone, and it’s the first interview of the day,” says the brunette beauty as she tries, haltingly, to explain how it came to be that she signed up for the role of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire in the just-released film The Duchess. “This is horrifying,” says the 23-year-old, asking for a moment to recompose, and stretching her swan-like neck and shoulders.
“Okay, let’s try this again,” she finally says, with a husky laugh. Knightley had flown in to attend the Toronto International Film Festival and to chat about her latest period drama (last year’s were Atonement and Silk) about a complicated creature who ruled society – and helped change politics – in late-18th-century Britain.

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