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  • Keira Knightley Explains Why She Hated High School

    Keira Knightley may live a glamorous life now, but she had a less than amazing high school one. In fact, she “fucking hated high school.”

    Knightley’s latest films Laggies and The Imitation Game continue to draw in media buzz. Critics are already predicting Knightley’s Oscar nomination for her role in The Imitation Game. People are also praising Knightley for her role in Laggies, but the buzz for the film comes from another place: her high school scars.

    In Laggies, Knightley plays Megan, a 20-something who goes through a quarter-life crisis when her boyfriend proposes. She then retreats for a week to the home of a 16-year-old named Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her single dad, Craig (Sam Rockwell). Laggies deals a lot with trying to relive high school glories.

    — Laggies (@LaggiesTheMovie) October 24, 2014

    So Laggies makes people wonder: if you could relive high school over, would you? Knightley certainly wouldn’t. Vulture asked her a similar question when they asked, “if you had to revert to high school…” Knightley’s answer revealed a lot about her teen years.

    “I fucking hated high school, so I wouldn’t revert to high school ever.” Knightley then stated, “I don’t know, I’m not that kind of gal. Teenage girls and that scream pitch, even when I was a teenage girl, I was like, ‘Ugh, I really don’t like this,’ so that’s never been my place in time.”

    Recently, during a game of 20 Questions, Knightley told her Laggies co-star Rockwell about her prom experience. She shared that she took a girl, who is still a close friend. According to Knightley, “Neither of us got invited by anybody else. No guys came anywhere near us. But she had black tie because it was black tie.”

    In the Vulture interview, Knightley disclosed more details about her prom. She revealed a not-so pleasant encounter with one of her teachers.

    Yeah, I went to prom with my best mate, Emily. We both turned up an hour late, and I’d been filming Bend It Like Beckham, and I turned up in leather pants and a crop top, and she was a model for a while, and she’d been in Paris shooting something, and she turned up as the boy, so she had a black tie with ripped jeans on, and everybody else was completely dressed up, obviously, in that kind of finery, and then we had our picture taken underneath the thing, and she’s kissing me, and we were told that that was disgusting. And one of the teachers took us both aside and said we were never going to come to anything if we didn’t know how to dress appropriately for events like that. So that was my prom. We had a great time!

    Our photograph, though, wasn’t allowed — you know when you get up and, I don’t know if this is in America, but you collect all the photographs of prom and you buy whatever ones you want. Ours wasn’t allowed to be displayed on that because it wasn’t appropriate.

    Laggies is currently playing in limited release. The Imitation Game comes out November 21.

  • Keira Knightley Reveals Her Surprising Prom Date

    You know how beautiful A-List Hollywood actresses are always going on talk shows and saying that they were ugly ducklings as teenagers, or that boys never asked them out in high school. Surprisingly, that seems to be the case for Keira Knightley, who recently confessed that she went to her prom with a girl because a boy never asked.

    Knightley was out promoting her new film Laggies with co-star Sam Rockwell. The British actress revealed her prom woes during a game of 20 questions, “Neither of us got invited by anybody else. No guys came anywhere near us. But she had black tie because it was black tie.”

    It appears that the girl in question was actually a close friend of Knightley’s. In fact, the two are still in touch, “She actually texted me at lunch. She is over from New York visiting her mum in England and wondered if I was there to have dinner with her.”

    Knightley also disclosed her teenage penchant for what Rockwell described as “angry music.” She explained during the game that along with Nirvana and Reef, that she was also into a little hardcore rap metal. “And then who were the ones who did, ‘Killing in the name of…F–k you, I won’t do what you tell me.” That of course is a lyric from Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name.

    Laggies is out in limited release starting today. Here’s the synopsis for the film:

    Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan (Keira Knightley) is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind – while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart (Mark Webber) proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week – hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Annika’s world-weary single dad Craig (Sam Rockwell).

  • Chloe Grace Moretz Likes Dark Roles

    Chloe Grace Moretz Likes Dark Roles

    Chloe Grace Moretz is quite busy these days. So far this year, she appears in three films and has starred in an off-broadway play.

    Her roles thus far have been incredibly varied, and she is so great in each persona that she has undertaken. Starting her young adult career as a potty-mouth super hero in Kick-Ass, her characters are a hodge-podge mix.

    As for her latest films, Chloe Grace Moretz stars in If I Stay, which opened in August, in her first romantic leading role.

    In The Equalizer, coming out this month, she plays a very different and much less romantic role as a prostitute being protected from rough pimps by Denzel Washington.

    In October, Laggies comes out, starring her as a high school student who makes an unlikely companion out of Keira Knightley. Knightley plays a twenty-something dropout.

    Her most relateable role? The high school student.

    “On paper, I think I’m a lot like my character [in Laggies]. She’s very me — dry and [a straight shooter]. I had some of the most fun I’ve ever had on that movie. But for some reason, I really enjoy the darker projects.” Chloe Grace Moretz told the Los Angeles Times.

    She continued, “I think I’m good at doing a hard character — really aggressive or nonchalant — that’s easy for me. But I prefer the darker roles — things that are really messed up. My family is really normal, and I have a great life, so I feel that I need to experience these emotions that I’d never otherwise be able to experience.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0GkVZK8zA

    Her life is definitely great now, and that’s why she is going to put off college for two years to see what it’s like to be able to take on acting jobs without school obligations.

    However, she is a little nervous about what it will be like to go to college as a celebrity.

    “I have friends who went to Brown with Emma Watson, and it’s sad, because everyone is like, ‘Oh, my God, I shared a pencil with her,’” she said. “They act like they don’t care, but they actually really do. It’s kind of a curse.”

    Good luck to Chloe Grace Moretz on her upcoming ventures!

  • Chloe Grace Moretz Wants Female Super Hero

    Chloe Grace Moretz turns 17 today–February 10th–and just a short while ago at the Sundance Film Festival the young Laggies star dished about her belief that a good female super hero is in strong demand.

    “It would be great to have one in the Marvel system. It would be great to have more than even Scarlett [Johansson as Black Widow] because Black Widow was still ‘wear the spandex and push your boobs up, this is a man’s world,’ she said during her interview with Total Film.

    “I think what it’ll be is Wonder Woman. I think Wonder Woman is someone that might be able to walk in and do something really cool,” she added. “A lot of the female characters are written that way in the comics, of being submissive, very sexually driven. They’re the kryptonite! I think Wonder Woman was one of those characters that really was a strong female character. The closest we’ve gotten to that is Catwoman with Michelle Pfeiffer.”

    The Carrie star makes a really good point. Young people today–as well as those more mature types who still believe in super heroes (and that’s perfectly okay–really, it is!) don’t have anyone besides Wonder Woman to look to as a female super hero. And where has Lynda Carter been for all these years? She’s certainly too old (no offense, Lynda) to pull off the role and be convincible today, so certainly someone could step into her shoes.

    Chloe was asked if she might one day head up her own super hero franchise. That would certainly be one way to make that female super hero dream come true.

    “For sure, if it’s the right role,” she said

    Chloe Grace Moretz stars opposite Keira Knightley in Laggies. The film is about a 28-year-old woman with no real life direction (played by Knightley) who bails on her boyfriend saying she is headed to a retreat. Instead she winds up staying with a teenager and her dad–played by Moretz and Sam Rockwell.

    “I fell in love with the idea and the story,” said Moretz. “It’s a very funny movie, but it has that undertone. It’s a quarter-life crisis.”

    Can you see Chloe Grace Moretz playing Wonder Woman or a Wonder Woman-type super hero one day? She may still be a bit young for the role, but her determination and gift of acting could one day find her defending the defenseless and fighting crime as only Wonder Woman knows how.

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