2008 Woodie Awards
Keira Knightley Bottoms Out in Scott's Domino
Daniel Fienberg / Zap2it.com (KRT)
Issue date: 10/17/05 Section: Entertainment
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On a recent Esquire magazine cover, Keira Knightley was toasted as "what cameras were made for." While the oft-photographed starlet is frequently praised for her elfin beauty, she needed a little assistance for a scene in her new film, Domino.
In an early sequence, model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey (Knightley) elects to diffuse a tense situation by bribing a gun-toting fugitive with the promise of a lap dance. Thanks to director Tony Scott's trademark fast-cutting style, the scene is sexy and disorienting, with parts of Knightley's body seemingly disassociated from the whole.
Although the 20-year-old actress appears topless later in the film, something about some of the lap dance shots seems a little fishy. Asked if the dancing was all her, Knightley does not hesitate.
"No, it's definitely a body double, I don't have that body," she says with an utterly disarming grin. "What a bum! I wish I had that bum! No, it was fantastic."
Somewhere along the way, it was determined - either by Scott or Knightley, it is unclear - that a substitute bottom would be used for several fleeting seconds of rump-shaking, which led to a rather unusual meeting of director and star.
"He called me up and goes 'Come into the office, I think you need to see something,'" she recalls. "I walk into the office and there are three naked women all standing there. And he goes, 'Which one do you want?' Wow. So I picked my bum."
Your typical doctor, lawyer, journalist or school teacher is rarely given occasion to select an alternative rear, and under the best of circumstances it takes most of us months and months of gym time to maximize what we already have. Not so for Knightley. Her biggest challenge was how not to offend the runner-up bottoms.
"Well, there were three lovely bottoms, they really were," she insists. "But, I was trying to pick one that could be as close to mine as possible if mine were the perfect bottom, which it isn't."
A certain Taryn Powers is credited as Knightley's double. Useful as more than just a tush tag-in, Powers helped choreograph the lap dance with, of all people, Knightley's mother, a former go-go dancer. The ultimate beneficiary was Derek Di Biagio, Knightley's assistant on the film.
"So, my assistant Derek is sitting down when I'm learning this dance routine that I was being taught by my mom and Taryn, so it was a unique experience all-in-all," Knightley laughs. "My assistant loved it, he had a great day."
In an early sequence, model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey (Knightley) elects to diffuse a tense situation by bribing a gun-toting fugitive with the promise of a lap dance. Thanks to director Tony Scott's trademark fast-cutting style, the scene is sexy and disorienting, with parts of Knightley's body seemingly disassociated from the whole.
Although the 20-year-old actress appears topless later in the film, something about some of the lap dance shots seems a little fishy. Asked if the dancing was all her, Knightley does not hesitate.
"No, it's definitely a body double, I don't have that body," she says with an utterly disarming grin. "What a bum! I wish I had that bum! No, it was fantastic."
Somewhere along the way, it was determined - either by Scott or Knightley, it is unclear - that a substitute bottom would be used for several fleeting seconds of rump-shaking, which led to a rather unusual meeting of director and star.
"He called me up and goes 'Come into the office, I think you need to see something,'" she recalls. "I walk into the office and there are three naked women all standing there. And he goes, 'Which one do you want?' Wow. So I picked my bum."
Your typical doctor, lawyer, journalist or school teacher is rarely given occasion to select an alternative rear, and under the best of circumstances it takes most of us months and months of gym time to maximize what we already have. Not so for Knightley. Her biggest challenge was how not to offend the runner-up bottoms.
"Well, there were three lovely bottoms, they really were," she insists. "But, I was trying to pick one that could be as close to mine as possible if mine were the perfect bottom, which it isn't."
A certain Taryn Powers is credited as Knightley's double. Useful as more than just a tush tag-in, Powers helped choreograph the lap dance with, of all people, Knightley's mother, a former go-go dancer. The ultimate beneficiary was Derek Di Biagio, Knightley's assistant on the film.
"So, my assistant Derek is sitting down when I'm learning this dance routine that I was being taught by my mom and Taryn, so it was a unique experience all-in-all," Knightley laughs. "My assistant loved it, he had a great day."