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Keira Knightley hates technology so much that she once threw her BlackBerry in the sea! The news website PR-Inside.com reports that she said:
Wow, Keira would hate me. I spend my whole life online. I think the best way to describe technology, for me, is "it's the center of my world." But hey, I can respect the whole alone time thing. Sometimes, in this life, I feel like the world is crashing down upon me, and the only way I can muster up the strength of Atlas and hold the world on my shoulders is to take a few deep breaths and spend some time alone. Usually, that alone time is best spent with a small, personal cosmetic mirror in my hand, you know, because reminding myself how handsome I am really helps me cope with this Earth. So, clearly, I can see where Keira's coming from. But, I think there might be an explanation for her hatred of modernity... it might have to do with the fact that she's always doing movies set a few hundred years in the past. I've seen it before, an actor gets so caught up in their characters that they start actually becoming the characters in their head.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if pretty soon we see Keira and "Pirates of the Caribbean" co-star Orlando Bloom riding down the cobblestone streets of London in a horse and buggy with Keira saying to Orlando: "Do you believe these arrogant souls, with their modern technology and their combustible engines... it's absolutely despicable." At which point Orlando says to Keira: "Yes, 'tis true sweetheart... but would you mind reaching down into the back of my knickers, I've got a terrible itch that I just can't seem to reach, darling... my arms, they're so weak and frail, they're incapable of quelling the itch of my terrible rash."
Then, Keira puts on a pair of those elegant, English aristocratic gloves and reaches right down the back of his pants and pulls out a massive street rat from his britches and says... "Orly, you've had a street rat in your pants all that time! That's what was causing the itch!" At which point Orlando says: "Why, thank you, my dear, you're fantastic. Now if you could be a darling and fetch me some tea... not to drink, but to soak my bollucks, they're a bit sore this evening." Then, Keira pulls a full tea cup out from her carrying bag and says: "Oh, Orly, I knew you'd need some relief... so I've had the tea already poured, waiting for you, all this time." Finally, Orlando leans over to Keira and says: "Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, Keira! Nothing like a warm cup of Earl Grey to soothe the loins!" And then they rode off, together, into the sunset.
Keira looking cute in her winter hat out promoting her movie "Atonement" in New York City yesterday:
