Flaunt magazine has a close encounter with Keira Knightley, lensed by Yu Tsai in ‘Long Distance Relationship’. The accompanying interview by Matthew Bedard is brilliantly written. Here’s a taste:

Let’s get a few things out of the way: your loyal narrator, being a man of his word, will not dramatize the ensuing interview with Keira Knightley in any which way. Frankly, he’d love to. He’d love to have you thinking that he was sitting next to her throughout, enjoying the springtime rebirth of London’s streets from the back seat of her private car, which muscles its way through the awakened capital from historic AbneyPark Cemetery (where she’s just been photographed for our cover in the finest Spring selections) to her six o’clock appointment at the West End’s Comedy Theatre for a performance in Lillian Hellman’s play, The Children’s Hour. Just imagine: there we are—the car alive with expectation—exchanging flirtatious quips, laughing at the silliness of our fanciful occupations, remarking on the poesy of the cherry blossoms that quiver and flitter about our periphery, having all the while,well, a ball. Hell, maybe there’d be champagne, a mutual friend unearthed following a riveting anecdote from yours truly, perhaps a post-theatre drinks proposal? Yes, he’d like to have you think all that, but here’s the truth: this one happened over the phone. And despite the resentment’s that’s stockpiling with every passing moment towards a certain publisher who purchased said narrator a ticket to Heathrow to entertain this very description, and then reneged (citing the necessity to “finish the magazine” or something), a half-hour on the phone with the Oscar-nominated, beguiling, flat-out foxy leading lady of contemporary screen and stage, is still, above all else, a charmed and insightful exchange.

So… Knightley tops off our champ flutes, cracks the limo window for a dash of that unmistakable Dalston breeze, requests a bit of low level Radio 4 from our very skilled driver, and proceeds to share on a medley of things, most importantly: fidelity. The film mostly in question throughout our chat is Massy Tadjedin’s directorial debut, Last Night, which stars Knightley and Sam Worthington, alongside Eva Mendes and Guillaume Canet, both of whom play a relatively proportionate role in unraveling and/or substantiating Knightley and Worthington’s young marriage in the course of 24 hours or so.

Nice prose. The interview continues. Anne