Keira Knightleypretends to be other people onscreen for a living — but in real life, she doesn’t even have to try.
OnThe Late Late Show with James Corden, theColetteactress, 33, revealed that fans have thought she was a slew of other celebrities whenCorden, 40, asked, “Do you ever get mistaken for other actors?”
“All the time,” she replied. “I’ve been chased through an airport asNatalie Portman. Natalie Portman a lot.” She noted that they both appeared inStar Wars.
Knightley continued, “I’ve been chased through a park asKate Winslet. Quite a few people have come over to me to ask me to say hello toDaniel Craigfor them because they think I’mRachel Weisz. Lovely.”
Then she name-dropped her least likely doppelgänger yet —Britney Spears. “Shut up,” Corden said.
“The other ones I get: English actress,” Knightley said. “[It was] in LA, and I was in a shop. I don’t know. It was a weird one. I had my picture as Britney Spears.”
“I would love to see that person with their friends,” Corden replied. ” ‘Guys, I just met Britney Spears. Look.’ And they go, ‘Oh my god, no you didn’t. You met Keira Knightley.’ ”
Knightly answered, “I quite enjoy it, though. I’m much more polite, I think, when people think that I’m somebody else.”
“I’m not,” Corden joked. “If someone came up and went, ‘Wow,Matt Damon‘s put on a few pounds. Will you sign this?’ I’d just be like, ‘Leave me alone.’ ”
Corden’s other guest,Kathryn Hahn, added that she and formerSaturday Night LivecomedianAna Gasteyerfrequently get mixed up.
Calling the resemblance “kind of bananas,” Hahn, 45, noted, “She actually told me that when Bad Moms came out, when she would go toStarbucks, she would order something, and then they would give her the cup that would just say ‘Carla,’ which was my character’s name fromBad Moms.”
She continued, “And people come up to me all the time and say, ‘Love you onSNL,’ and I say, ‘Thank you.’ ”
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Earlier in October, Knightleytold PEOPLEthat her daughter withJames Righton, 3-year-oldEdie, does not care that her mother is famous. “I think she just thinks that everybody’s mum is probably in pictures,” Knightley said. “It doesn’t really strike her as anything weird.”
Edie has no plans yet to follow her mom into acting. “She wanted to be a dentist, and now apparently she’s been to the zoo and she wants to be a gorilla,” Knightley said. “So we’ll see. I’m hoping for a dentist. It might be a bit tricky if she wanted to be a gorilla when she grew up.”
source: people.com
