Massive success like that can be difficult to sustain, however, as Knightley later toldThe Times.
Read on to learn whatever happened to one of the biggest stars of the 2000s.
The fabric turned out to be incredibly fragile.
Knightley toldBBC Radio 1that she didn’t get to keep the dress because it didn’t last.
“I broke them all,” she said mournfully.
“I definitely broke most of them …a sex scene, in a dress like that!”
The fabric, she said, was laser-cut.
“The tops were constantly being re-sewn, and re-done, and re-done.”
Though the dress itself didn’t last, its impact sure did.
Furthermore, she said, it was a radical departure from her usual scents.
Before she linked up with Chanel, Knightley preferred scents that projected strength.
“I don’t like light and flowery,” she said.
“I’m not that kind of girl.
Thanks in part to her association with the brand, Knightley’s devotion to Chanel runs deep.
Furthermore, it seems that she’s quite good at it!
“I loved its hard edges,” she toldthe BBC.
I thought it was quite naughty, and I liked that.”
After all, their staging of the play was about a film actor.
Knightley’s performance was ultimately well-received, earning her an Olivier Award nomination.
Take that, critics!
Wright had directed those previous period pieces, too, and Knightley toldGlamourthat this was all intentional.
“We really like this because it was our version of a trilogy,” she said.
“I think we both like working from literal adaptations.
Books have such great source material.”
“Anna Karenina,” though, was a new experience for both star and director.
“I think we both realized that we’ve changed a lot,” she said.
We were interested in different things."
Fittingly, Knightley told Glamour that the costumes were part of the fun.
“I’ve always loved costumes since I was a kid.
Costume design always fascinated me because it’s creating a character,” she reminisced.
“Whereas, I never know who I want to be.”
They met via fashion correspondent Alexa Chung and were together about a year before getting engaged.
“I could have six fake weddings.
God, that would be expensive,” she said.
“I don’t need to have all that.”
Sure enough, when they finally did walk down the aisle, the ceremony was a rather small one.
She wore a very pretty, very elegant dress."
That dress, it turned out, was a Chanel dress that Knightley already owned.
“I’d worn the dress lots.
It was my ‘something old.’
And I liked not making a big deal about it,” she toldE!
Unfortunately, the dress didn’t survive the wedding.
“It’s now got red wine spilled down the front… Morten Tyldum did it, too, when he directed her in “The Imitation Game.”
“Female stories and female voices are very often missed out on, completely.
Apparently, he wasn’t too impressed with what she did in the film.
…I like to work with curious, proper film actors as opposed to movie stars.”
Since becoming a mother, she intentionally dialed back her career to focus on raising her two daughters.
“I couldn’t go job to job [abroad] now.
It wouldn’t be in any way fair on them, and I wouldn’t want to.
I’ve chosen to have children,” she reasoned.
“I want to bring them up, so I’ve had to take a major step back.”
At the ceremony, she wore a suit and hat by (who else?)
“Not every mother feels the same way.”
That year, however, she added something new to her resume: television star.
Knightley’s performance brought her something she hadn’t had in an entire decade: a Golden Globe nomination.
“She was like, ‘Ooh that’s exciting!
What’re you going to wear?
Who’s going to look after the children?”
Her mother watched the kids, and Knightley, of course, wore Chanel.
In fact, she added that she wouldn’t sign on to any franchise, period.
“The hours are insane,” she said.
Finally, she’s the one steering the ship.
