Keira Knightley says she likes going topless on film, but singing really scares her

“I always bare my breasts,” she said at the press conference to promote The Edge of Love Wednesday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. “It’s not like it’s only in this film!”

The British actress, 23, is best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean films; last year she went au naturale in the period drama Atonement.

Referring to a scene in the wartime romance The Edge of Love with her onscreen husband Cillian Murphy, Knightley said: “It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they’ve got bras on.”

So when the director asked her to remove her bra, “I said, ‘All right then.’”

[From People.com]

According to Mr. Skin, Keira has been topless four times on film not counting this latest movie, and once on television. There was a nude butt supposedly of Keira’s character in the 2005 film Domino, but it was stunt double’s butt, not Keiras.

Kiera plays a singer in the Edge of Reason, and there’s a scene where she sings and it’s her actual voice, which is high and sweet. (Here’s a video of her singing scene.) Keira took voice lessons for the film, and she said earlier that “I’ve never been so frightened in my entire life” and “I never want to have to do it [sing] again.”

At the press conference for the film yesterday she elaborated on how truly terrified she was to sing, saying “I thought I was going to die. My knees actually started buckling.”

Keira is a trip. I can’t sing half as well as she can and would gladly reveal my awful voice before willingly going topless, but that’s why she’s an actress and I’m not.

Keira looks kind of starved to me. Her mother recently dismissed rumors that she’s anorexic, saying she “eats like a horse” and has always been thin. Keira has also denied being anorexic, but said that the disorder runs in her family and that her grandmother and great grandmother suffered from it. She also claimed that she’s “twice the size - height and everything else” of “most of the girls” who were competing with her for parts. She has the advantage of being able to belt out a tune, but she painfully underestimates herself in that area too.

Keira Knightley is shown at the premiere of The Edge of Love yesterday in London and at a photocall for the film in Edinburough on Wednesday with her co-stars Matthew Rhys, Sienna Miller, and John Maybury, thanks to WENN. You can tell that she likes showing off her mini boobs since she’s always wearing such low cut outfits.

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