Keira Knightley’s not going to get much of a chance to wear jeans or a T-Shirt in the near future it seems. The period-drama vet has signed on for another historical epic, one that’ll no doubt require gigantic hats and tight-fitting corsets.
The “Duchess” star is in discussions to play a tempestuous lover in the Nick Cassavetes-helmed “The Beautiful and the Damned”, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Damned" revolves around Zelda Sayre (Knightley) and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre -- who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium -- did the same.
The film, based on a script by Hannah Weg, is eyeing an April ’09 start date.
