Keira seen leaving rehearsals in London yesterday.

Keira Knightley’s stage debut has taken £1million at the box office within just four days – and the cast hasn’t even started rehearsals yet.

The West End production, a new version of Molière’s famous comedy The Misanthrope, which also stars Damian Lewis, hadn’t been advertised until this week, with just a small article in Baz Bamigboye’s Daily Mail column breaking the news a few days ago, which was swiftly picked up by news outlets around the world.

However, fans of the Oscar-nominated star have since flooded the box office line with ticket requests, almost guaranteeing a sell-out success when it opens for previews in early December.

It’s been a quiet year for Keira, who’s kept her flawless face out of the papers thanks to a full-on schedule of filming and few red carpet appearances. However, it’ll be business as usual next year with four of the star’s films due for release, including the eagerly awaited London Boulevard, co-starring Colin Farrell and Anna Friel, and Never Let Me Go, alongside Charlotte Rampling and hot new face Carey Mulligan.

Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has revealed she is “terrified but excited” about starting her first West End role.

The Teddington-born beauty (pictured in character) will portray a flirtatious Hollywood film star in the modern-day adaption of Moliere’s 17th century masterpiece, The Misanthrope.

With rehearsals starting next month, Keira will begin treading the boards on December 7 alongside Band of Brothers actor Damian Lewis

Theatre is a life-long ambition for the British star, who is the daughter of award-winning playwright and Calendar Girls actor Will Knightley, and dramatist Sharman Macdonald.

“It’s in my blood,” she says.

The show’s director Thea Sharrock has complete confidence in the 24-year-old.

“She’s absolutely ready to come into this vulnerable position – and I’m interested in working with her, to push her in a way that I don’t think she has been pushed before,” says the director, who cast Daniel Radcliffe in Equus.

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MailOnline – June 20, 2009

It’s beyond the wildest dreams of most writers – persuading an Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress to appear in their first short film.

Let alone one such as Keira Knightley, who made £16m in 2008 and was named by Forbes as the second highest earning female in movies.

But that’s just what has happened to Rupert Friend, who has cast her in his debut, the The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers.

Of course it helps that the 24-year-old is his girlfriend.

Friend, who has been dating Knightley for four years, co-wrote the film with friend Tom Mison and both have starring roles.

In the film two brothers named Bourbon and Barath (Friend and Mison) go out to the shed to kill themselves everyday at two o’clock.

They try a different method each time. But each day they fail, having overlooked the presence of their frustrated fairy godmother (Knightley).

The Pirates Of The Caribbean and Atonement star undergoes a transformation for the film, in white backcombed wig and ghostly pale powdered skin.

Keira wears a bedraggled frayed dress and wings created by Oscar-winning Duchess designer Michael O’Connor.

The film also features Keira’s older brother Caleb’s soundscapes.

Yesterday Friend and Keira were arm-in-arm as they attended a London screening of the film.

Keira wore a floor-length black silk dress decorate with a painted floral design.

She has been in Somerset working on her next movie, Never Let Me Go, while Friend, 27, is currently filming The Kid, which is based on the true story of a boy in care who gets sucked into London’s criminal underworld.

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- Never let me go, on the set – Aprile 24

- Magazine – Empire Magazine’s 20th anniversary – June

- Photoshoot – Shoot # 073 – Empire20th Anniversary Edition

La star hollywoodiana Keira Knightley pochi giorni fa era a Weston-super-Mare per girare le scene di un nuovo film.

L’attrice e gli altri membri del cast del film Never Let Me Go erano al Regent Restaurant e al Coffee Lounge in Regent Street, mentre il pubblicco era stato sistemato nelle vicinanze per poter vedere la star recitare.

La produzione si è spostata a Weston dopo aver filmato alcune scene sulle spiagge di Clevedon giovedì, e altre scene saranno filmate a North Somerset in questi giorni.

Luci di scena, telecamere e membri dello staff erano sistemati fuori dalla caffetteria mentre la security controllava il pubblico e il traffico.

I produttori Andrew Macdonald – che ha anche prodotto Shallow Grave, Trainspotting e 28 giorni dopo, e Allon Reich hanno detto di aver scelto quel set perchè ha un look molto retrò, perfetto per il film che prende luogo nei primi anni ‘90.

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- On the set – Aprile 23

Never Let Me Go sarà un film: la protagonista Kathy H sarà interpretata da Keira Knightley, i suoi compagni Ruth e Tommy saranno interpretati da Carey Mulligan e Andrew Garfield. Tra gli altri attori spiccano Charlotte Rampling e Sally Hawkins; la sceneggiatura è stata scritta da Alex Garland, la regia è di Mark Romanek.

Le riprese sono iniziate a Londra per la produzione della Fox Searchlight e l’uscita del film è prevista per il 2010. La storia dovrebbe seguire abbastanza fedelmente il libro di Kazuo Ishiguro (pubblicato in italiano come Non Lasciarmi): è ambientata in una distopica Inghilterra ma inizialmente sembra tutto idilliaco: Kathy, Ruth e Tommy crescono in uno strano collegio di campagna separato dal mondo, ricevendo una educazione valida ma pochi contatti con il mondo esterno: del resto i ragazzi che vivono in questo collegio non hanno genitori. Una misteriosa Madame li incoraggia ad esprimere la loro creatività artistica e raccoglie alcuni dei loro lavori, ma non si tratta di una normale scuola e lo si capisce dai continui controlli medici a cui gli studenti sono sottoposti, dal ferreo divieto di fumare e da altri piccoli indizi. A mano a mano che i ragazzi crescono, gli insegnanti permettono loro di avere una vita sociale più consistente: ma un poco per volta i tre scopriranno chi sono e qual è il destino a loro assegnato.

Nel libro Kathy H è un’assistente, ma non viene subito spiegato il suo ruolo e vi sono molti elementi che rimangono oscuri al lettore: Ishiguro svela frammenti della vita e dei ricordi di Kathy che si dipanano in un’atmosfera misteriosa e fantastica, un velo attraverso cui la realtà si fa strada poco per volta.

Non riveliamo la terribile verità, che peraltro ricalca un tema già affrontato da altri film.