Keira Knightley plays Rachael Morgan in the upcoming James Kent’s new drama ‘The Aftermath.’
In a new interview Keira Knightley explains there were so many ”interesting” and thought-provoking factors that drew her to the film Read on…
CelebNMovies247.com reports actress Keira Knightley, 33, was left to ”think about” when she read her character’s script.
Theses days Keira Knightley is keen to branch out into directing in the future but knows it takes a very different approach to starring on screen.
She explains:
I don’t know, at the moment with a three-year-old, no. But maybe further down the line. I’ve worked on a lot of films, I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful directors and I’m really interested in how it’s all put together and I really like working with scripts and storylines. I think there’s certain areas that I’m confident I’d be okay in, and certain areas where I’m not as confident.
Knightley adds:
The problem is, as an actor what I’m meant to do is completely ignore the camera is there, so it’s taken me so long to completely ignore the camera there that now if you’re thinking about directing you need to be thinking ‘why are you there and what lens are you on’.
When it comes to how The Aftermath was directed, Keira says she’s “never seen a film set exactly in this.”
Keira reveals her thoughts to Collider stating:
I’d never seen a film set exactly in this, I want to say period, but that’s not right, it’s the aftermath and what that looked like, that kind of post-apocalyptic world and I think that sense of rebuilding, that sense of loss, and that very real sense there was a winning side and a losing side.
But ultimately, if you’ve lost somebody that you loved, there is no winning, and what does that look like and how do you get past that.
As for the style of the film Keira Knightley concludes by saying this to the site:
It’s a very, very grown-up love story because what happens as a couple you’ve been through a great tragedy and suddenly you are completely different people and it should be the person that you know best in the world and yet you don’t recognise them in any way, how do you reach them, how do you come back together. I thought all of these things were interesting things to think about.”
Synopsis:
THE AFTERMATH is set in postwar Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
