Keira Knightey isn’t ashamed to admit that plenty of people think she’s a bad actress.

“Every time I do an interview with the English press, one of their questions is, ‘How do you feel knowing that everyone thinks you’re a sh** actress?’” she tells the March issue of Elle (on newsstands Feb. 16).

Not that the critics have affected her paycheck.

In 2008, the 24-year-old star was named the second-highest-earning actress by Forbes. She earned $32 million — only to be surpassed by Cameron Diaz, who made $50 million — for her roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Atonement as well as ads for Chanel perfume.

(She was also the only British star to make either of Forbes’ lists of the 10 best-paid actresses or the 10 highest earning actors.)

“You have to be selective about the people whose advice and opinions you take,” Knightley, who shot to prominence in 2003’s Bend it Like Beckham, says.

Still, she values honesty and says she prefers to surround herself by people who tell her the unvarnished truth. Namely, her parents.

“I know they would never tell me I was sh** because they were trying to hurt me,” she says. “It would always come from a very sincere place.”

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Keira Knightley is to take the lead in David Cronenberg’s first film in three years, reports the Playlist blog.

The Talking Cure, based on the Christopher Hampton play of the same name, will star Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, a Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient, who is said to have inspired some of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud’s most remarkable discoveries. Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender – who both featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds – are set to co-star, with Waltz as Freud, and Fassbender as Jung.

Hampton’s play focuses on the relationship between Spielrein and Jung, when he was treating her at the Burghölzli mental hospital near Zurich in 1904. Jung used Freudian techniques to try and overcome Spielrein’s association of paternal punishment with physical arousal.

The unconfirmed Playlist report was triggered by a Facebook update by Australian distributor Hopscotch Films, suggesting that it had picked up rights to the film.

Reviewing Hampton’s play in 2003, the Guardian’s Michael Billington wrote: “In part, the play is intended as a tribute to a neglected pioneer. Freud and Jung have entered the history books. But part of Hampton’s point is that Spielrein, a patient turned healer, was a highly formative influence. It is she who provokes the rupture between Freud and Jung which enabled the latter to venture deeper into the unconscious.” He also rather presciently said, “There is something about its emphasis on narrative over drama that suggests the work’s place is on the screen.”

Critics have yet to deliver their verdict, but Keira Knightley’s West End debut last night met rave reviews from the audience.

First Knightley: Kiera signs autographs at the Comedy Theatre, where she appeared to have confounded critics who said she would struggle on stage

The British star, more used to Hollywood blockbusters, who plays an American socialite in the updated version of Molière’s The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre, appeared to have confounded cynics who said she would struggle on stage.

While the official “first night” is not until next week, Knightley’s opening performance treading the boards was “wonderful” according to members of the 800-strong audience.

In pictures: Behind the scenes at The Misanthrope

The show took more than £1 million in ticket sales in four days on the strength of Knightley’s casting, which is alongside another A-lister, Damian Lewis, the British star of Band of Brothers. Knightley joins stars such as Cate Blanchett, Sienna Miller and Nicole Kidman in making the move from screen to stage.

“Keira was extremely good,” said Dee Jeffery, 48, an interior designer from Fulham. “I thought she was even better than Damian Lewis, which was a real surprise to me. She did a wonderful job.”

Melanie Hamelle, 33, a marketing director from south London, said: “She was amazing. We’re so used to seeing American actors come to the West End and pretend to be British and it’s more unusual to see a Brit doing an American accent — but she did it brilliantly.

“She was so confident throughout the whole performance. I didn’t come specifically to see Keira perform but I’ve been a big fan for a long time and she didn’t disappoint.”

Some said they had expected Knightley to struggle: “You never know what you are going to get when you go to a play starring a big movie star,” said Joan Jove, 30, a property developer from Pimlico. “Theatre is so different and sometimes they get it wrong, but Keira was expressive and I think she really worked in the role.

“People have obviously said before the performance that she would not do very well but clearly she can handle all that pressure and did a really good job on the night.”

Martin Kercher, a 33-year-old consultant from Surrey, said: “I was surprised by just how good Keira Knightley actually was. She was incredibly confident and carried off the performance very well.” Like some others, he was less impressed with her co-star: “Damian Lewis didn’t play a drunk very well.”

Not everyone was convinced. Robert Erickson, 56, from Washington DC, said: “She was nothing more than an average actress. I wasn’t impressed by her at all.” He added: “Frankly the acting during the play was mostly good, but the script was horrible.

“It just didn’t translate from the original Molière script to the modern-language version.”

BRITISH actress Keira Knightley has hinted her relationship with fellow actor Rupert Friend is over, reported entertainment media on Wednesday.

The star of The Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise is currently starring in the West End show The Misanthrope where she portrays 22-year-old movie star Jennifer, reported celebrity website Bang Showbiz.

Knightley has reportedly spoken about the similarities between her and her sexy on-stage persona, admitting they both have love life ‘problems’.

‘Do I recognise being an extremely well-known young actress? Yes,’ Knightley said.

‘And she’s in the middle of a world full of people who are quite a bit older than her. She’s having a problem with her boyfriend. No comment.’ — AP

Sam Worthington ”craved” weapons when filming ‘Last Night’ with Keira Knightley. Sam Worthington would rather fight than kiss Keira Knightley.

The Australian actor says he enjoyed undertaking daring stunts and physical challenges when making ‘Avatar’ and found his subsequent movie commitments less fulfilling.

He said: “To be honest I craved a gun and a sword while I was doing ‘Last Night’ opposite Keira Knightley. I didn’t get the same kind of rush from the kissing scenes.”

CAREY MULLIGAN counts KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as one of her dearest pals – even though she fell for her PRIDE and PREJUDICE co-star’s beau RUPERT FRIEND on the film’s set.

Mulligan met Knightley when they were cast as sisters in the 2005 re-telling of Jane Austen’s classic love story – a film which also introduced the Pirates of the Caribbean star to her future partner Friend.

The newcomer admits making her first film was full of new experiences, including a crush on Knightley’s boyfriend.

She explains, ‘I fell in love with everybody on that film. I was in love with Rupert Friend for like a month. He’s one of my good friends now. It was like, ‘Oh, boys! You, you, you and you’ – the boom, the sound guy, lighting, yes, everyone. I’d not really been around! I didn’t end up with any of them. I had very romantic crushes. Being on a film set was mad.’

But the 24 year old insists her infatuation didn’t prevent her from befriending Knightley, who she now calls her role model.

Mulligan adds, ‘She’s done bigger films than I have done. Obviously – she’s massively famous. But, yeah, she is (a role model). She has a lot of bad stuff to deal with. She gets a really hard time from the press sometimes, and she deals with it really gracefully. Also, she’s one of my best friends, so it’s hard to talk about her really. We’re really close. Keira and I are very tight.’

Keira Knightley has beaten Scarlett Johansson to land the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of My Fair Lady, it has emerged.

Now the 24-year-old actress will be seen starring in the film which will be directed by Joe Wright.

“Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely,” says a friend of the 37-year-old director.

In August, it was reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film, reports The Telegraph.

“I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American,” said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time.

“You”d know their names, but I”m not letting on,” he added.

Recently, Kenworthy said: “I think Keira would be absolutely fabulous in it.”

Emma Thompson is writing the film’s script, for which Daniel Craig has been mooted as a possible Professor Henry Higgins.