The British actress, who is at Toronto promoting her role
in "A Dangerous Method" - in which she also plays a Russian character
- told Reuters on Sunday that for her biggest role yet, in the upcoming
"Anna Karenina," director Joe Wright and a cast including Jude Law
had decided to speak with English rather than Russian accents.
"It's going
to be an English accent. It's always very tricky when you are doing something
that is meant to be in another language. Because you are like, what accent
should it be, should you do that? Well, if you've got a Russian accent, why
aren't you speaking Russian? It's an English-language film.
So we have taken the
decision that it's an English accent," she said. The film, adapted from
Leo Tolstoy's novel, considered one of the greatest of all time, will start
shooting in a week's time. The cast already has completed three weeks of
rehearsal, Knightley said.
