Keira Knightley
(Picture: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/WireImage)Great art comes out of wartime, says Keira Knightley, as she launches two projects about the Holocaust and the Ukraine war. “I think it’s always incredibly powerful, people’s first-hand experience of when the world turns upside down and these nightmares happen,” she told us last night at the premiere of her new film about a painter who died at Auschwitz.
Charlotte, which follows the life of Charlotte Salomon, is Knightley’s first animated film. It’s one of two new departures. She has also recorded an audiobook of You Don’t Know What War Is, a memoir written by Ukrainian schoolgirl Yeva Skalietska. “I think that’s what this film is about, that’s certainly what the book is about. Yeva’s book is terrifying because she’s a child and it’s incredibly immediate,” says Knightley.
