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Keira Knightleyis recovering from COVID-19.
The two-time Academy Award nominee, 36, revealed during an interview withThe Telegraph’sStellamagazine that she and her familyare currently in quarantine after contracting breakthrough coronavirus. “I’ve got COVID and I’m feeling pretty rubbish,” Knightley said.
She explained that her daughtersEdie, 6, andDelilah, 2, are recovering quicker than she is, while her husbandJames Righton, 38, is asymptomatic. “[He is] being very smug about it — he is convinced it’s because he’s one of those cold-water swimmers and I’m not,” the actress said.
Knightley’s rep tells PEOPLE that both she and Righton were fully vaccinated, and they’ve completed their required 10-day quarantine.
The British actress also opened up about the surreal experience of filming her new comedy-horror movieSilent Night, set during Christmas on the eve of an environmental apocalypse. Filmingkicked off in the U.K.in February 2020, a month before the pandemic began.
“We were filming scenes about the shops running out of food at the same time as the news was becoming full of stories that all of the toilet paper had gone,” she recounted. “It was incredibly strange for everyone.”
“I think it should come with a warning, because now everybody is coming to the film with a lived experience, hopefully not as horrific as this one, but it has suddenly become a lot more raw,” Knightley added.
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“As the COVID cases increase in the U.K. and additional lockdown and restriction rules are potentially being imposed, with so many unknowns, there wasn’t a comfortable scenario for Keira that could be put in place for an extended period of child care required for the 4.5-month production,” Knightley’s rep told PEOPLE in October 2020.
Silent Nightpremieres Dec. 3 in theaters and on AMC+.
source: people.com
