Keira Knightley, who has struggled with dyslexia since the age of six, has revealed that her daughter has also been diagnosed with the condition.
Talking about how she memorises her lines, the actress, 39, says: ‘I still find sight-reading really hard.
‘It really bounces [the text] but basically I record it and listen to it, and listen to it, and that’s how I learn it.
‘But now we have a dyslexic kid and she’s doing the same thing, and her memory is absolutely amazing.’
Keira has two daughters – Edie, eight, and Delilah, four – with her husband, former Klaxons singer James Righton, 40, and shared insight into the condition, which causes difficulties with reading, writing and spelling.
Keira Knightley , who has struggled with dyslexia since the age of six, has revealed that her daughter has also been diagnosed with the condition
Speaking on Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast, the couple did not specify which child had been diagnosed with the condition, but did say of their daughter: ‘She’ll look at books and would have memorised the book and it’s amazing.’
Keira previously revealed that she has backtracked on her vow to ‘ban’ her eldest daughter Edie from watching fairytales due to their lack of feminist messaging.
In an interview with PORTER in 2020, the Pirates Of The Caribbean star said that she has backtracked in a sense, as her little girl has now ‘watched all of them.’
Keira had previously said: ‘I’m being very careful about fairytales with my kid because I don’t like the message that a lot of them have’.
‘So The Little Mermaid has been banned. Cinderella has been banned. I haven’t looked at Snow White again, but that may be banned, as well.’
But in a later interview, Keira seemed to have changed her tune, but admitted she was delighted when her little tot had some choice words about the viewing material.
She said: ‘She’s watched all of them now. When we watched Sleeping Beauty, she said, ‘It’s not OK, that man kissed her without her permission!’
‘I can’t tell you how pleased I was. If I don’t do anything else, I’ve managed to drum that in!’
The actress has daughters, Edie, eight, and Delilah, four, with her husband, former Klaxons singer James Righton, 40, and shared insight into the condition
Keira was recently filming for the new Netflix thriller Black Doves alongside Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire.
Set against the backdrop of London, the upcoming Netflix thriller Black Doves will introduce Keira Knightley’s character, Helen Webb, a quick-witted, down-to-earth, and dedicated wife and mother – who also happens to be a professional spy.
For a decade, Helen has been surreptitiously leaking her politician husband’s secrets to the clandestine organisation she serves, the Black Doves, a revelation that sets the stage for a thrilling narrative.
When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah), calls in Helen’s old friend to keep her safe.
Sam Young (Ben) is a suave, champagne-drinking assassin. But having been out of the game since a failed job with disastrous consequences, he’s come home to a London that has moved on without him.
As his past threatens to catch up with him, his task is to protect Helen as she investigates who killed Jason and why.
Together, they set off on a mission that will lead them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy.
One that links the murky underworld of London to a looming geopolitical crisis – and leads them to question the cost of the moral choices they’ve made.
The Netflix series is written by Joe Barton and Keira is listed as an executive producer.
Keira previously revealed that she has backtracked on her vow to ‘ban’ her eldest daughter Edie from watching fairytales due to their lack of feminist messaging (pictured in March)
Amid the writers and actors’ January strikes in America, fueled by the studio’s use of AI to replace human actors, Keira revealed that she plans to copyright her face.
She said: ‘At the moment for actresses, the concern is about the voice, and they’re trying to protect the voice-over industry.
‘I don’t know where that’s at but I know that’s the negotiation. But I imagine the next step will be to copyright my face.
‘AI has the potential to be catastrophic and I hope governments come in and regulate it,’ she added.
Studios including the likes of Amazon, Netflix and Apple are proposing to use AI to replace humans with digital scans where an actor’s likeness can be superimposed over a stunt double.
Hollywood actors and writers united in their first ‘double strike’ in more than 60 years vowing they will protect every worker in the industry from being replaced by AI.
