A wedding isn’t the only exciting news for Keira Knightley fans this week: The actress is in negotiations to play the female lead in the dark comedy Laggies, according to a rep for the film. The independent production, written by first-timer Andrea Seigel and directed by Lynn Shelton (Your Sister’s Sister), tells the story of a young woman who reacts to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal by pretending to go on a business retreat while she actually hunkers down with a new 16-year old friend (Chloë Grace Moretz). Anne Hathaway was originally on board for the lead but had to depart due to scheduling conflicts with her next project, Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar.

Knightley, 28, has a mix of small and big-budget films on her docket, including the Kenneth Branagh-directed Jack Ryan (co-starring Chris Pine) and the indie Can a Song Save Your Life? by writer-director John Carney (Once).

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Keira, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Wasikowska and Rooney Mara all have cover’s on November’s edition of W Magazine to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

On October 9th Keira attended a photocall for the V&A’s Hollywood Costume Exhibition in London where a dress she wore in Anna Karenina  was on show.

Vogue have posted a behind the scenes look at Keira’s new shoot, check it out below.

Keira is on the cover of the October edition of Vogue. She looks amazing in a beautiful new photoshoot shot by Mario Testino. Read the full article below, a preview of the cover and some outtakes have been added to the gallery.

A dramatic heroine in haute couture and in costume as Anna Karenina, Keira Knightley talks about her upcoming marriage—and playing the role of a lifetime.

Keira Knightley is drinking herbal tea in a downtown New York apartment so meagerly furnished that a dance troupe could polka through it without missing a step. Bare walls, bright-orange sofa, a single, corporate-looking armchair: Even for a short-term rental it is ridiculously spartan. Most actresses would have been on to their agents in five minutes. Not Keira. In town to film Can a Song Save Your Life?, alongside Adam Levine and Mark Ruffalo, she appears full to bursting with an undisguised joy that fills the otherwise empty room.
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