Actress Takes A Big Leap To Play Another Literary Brit

@pufflehuff: For real. I read "Never Let Me Go" a few months ago and was profoundly moved. I can't imagine Kiera Knightly being able to do it justice. The main character was such a blank canvas in many ways; I fear that KK will try to "cute" it up like she did in Pride and Prejudice.

MissPeacock

Wow, i thought there was no outfit in the world that would make Keira unsexy.

I WAS WRONG

BaconCat

People have various ways of celebrating the annual "fresh coat of white and brown paint on park benches" day in England.

PUT. THE . KAZUO. ISHIGURO. DOWN. BITCH.

Thank the lord she wasn't in Remains of the Day. Or was she? Was she??

Doe In Sheep's Clothing.

belltolls

I loved that scene in "Never Let Me Go" where the London hooker picks up a Highlander and they end up at his place and the next morning she steals his clothes and walks back to England. Classic!

@metalkate:
One of the best, most moving, and perhaps the most original book I've ever read. After two years or so, I still think about it so often.

meerkat

J'aime le mocassin d'aubergine

@BaconCat: it isn't a sexy book BACONCAT! hey, just dropping by the comments to say how great this book is and everyone should read it, and recommend maybe avoid reading any articles about it so you can surprised by the plot. ohmygod it's so good. i read it in like 2 days.

@MissPeacock:
I know - first I was so excited that there's going to be a film, and then I thought, Kiera Knightly?? Maybe not such a good idea.

meerkat

@T-Gawk: Right, caption: Highland Hooker Alert.

I'm kind of excited about this movie.

And I don't hate Keira Knightley.

Sue me.

jackbarber

Lonely girl plays twister with invisible friend.

Itsjustcatnip

"So I swing the arm first, THEN the leg."

GORDONGARTRELLE

@meerkat: I agree with everything everyone has said here.

I just Googled and here's what I could find. It makes me happy that I don't know anyone else in the movie:

Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) has joined Fox Searchlight's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's best-selling novel Never Let Me Go. She will play a teacher at the seemingly idyllic English boarding school attended by Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy, (Carey Mulligan), and Tommy (Andrew Garfield). The film, directed by Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) from a screenplay by Alex Garland (28 Days Later) begins filming in the U.K. today.

This is how we walk in the English countryside.

Still too fat.

The Hungry, Pliable Narrator

Woolverine

Mauve, Actually

@Phyllis Nefler: NOOOOO not Sally Hawkins! Please don't let her do a Poppy on this... bloody hated Happy-Go-Aaargh-Save-Me-From-Her.... Andrew Garfield is excellent, though, have a google of Red Riding on Channel 4.

All that wool and the never-should-be-done tights/thick sock/flat shoe combo makes her look rather itchy.

Spirit Fingers

Truly Dewy Ingenue Skips to the Loo

Quite a Feeling! Existing is Believing! I Cannot Have It All, Thus I Am Dancing For The Life That Is Mine! Quite a Feeling!

MisterPepper

Bend It Like Thatcher

Mymoustache

@[justjared.buzznet.com]

Mom jeans.

@BaconCat: I'd still hit it.

@dolemite1975: More excuse to rip her out of those!

I still have the last few lines of that book memorized.

I hope I won't hate Knightley too much if she destroys it.

Wooden Plank Cloned; Dressed; For No Apparent Reason, Deified

@Mymoustache: Hah delightful!

@MattGaymon: noice

I am so cringing to see what they do to that beautiful book. I cannot imagine it being translated to film. I just can't.

jmsmith76

She reminds me of the awkward, geeky girl who always used to speed walk with her head down while reciting math equations to the lunch line in high school.

treysays

Keira's career -- the jig is up.

Keira Knightley post-aneurism

Jsmoke

@TheDerridaDrop: I see what you did there. Nice.

The recession has hit Keira hard - even she is economizing on clothes.

lookout72

Is it just me or has she been on the sickeningly anorexic train since sometime around or just after the release of Love Actually? At this point it is hard to look at her

TheodorAdorno