Keira Knightley is totally a trooper on the rainy red carpet for Laggies
Keira Knightley is totally a trooper on the rainy red carpet for Laggies
By Chris Hampton | September 11, 2014
By Chris Hampton | 09/11/2014
It was a dark and stormy night. Keira Knightley pulled up to Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of Laggies to nary a cheer, nary a chant, only the drumbeat of rain battering the red carpet tent, the few fans huddled there clutching their umbrellas with both hands lest they flip inside-out or fly off. The Lynn Shelton film follows Knightley’s character Megan, who, after an abysmal high school reunion and unwelcome marriage proposal, decides to reassess the boring, going-nowhere thrust of her life with the help of a new teenage friend. While photographers tried to snap Knightley between gusts of wind, Shelton and co-star Sam Rockwell took the carpet, talking about what they’d do differently if they could start again from high school (Shelton: “I’d try to worry less”; Rockwell: “I’d sleep with more women”). Knightley shared that she hated high school, didn’t really have much fun, and she wouldn’t want—and then a particularly violent blast butted in, nearly sucking the whole tent up into the night sky. “Aren’t we having fun?” said our crowned-that-minute Red Carpet Trooper of the Year.
290843 Director Lynn Shelton. (Image: Giordano Ciampini) TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-01-200x200.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-01.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-01.jpg 667 1000 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-red-carpet-laggies/slide/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-01/ tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-01 0 0
(Image: Giordano Ciampini)
290844 Keira Knightley, radiant in a windstorm. (Image: Giordano Ciampini) TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-02-200x200.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-02.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-02.jpg 667 1000 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-red-carpet-laggies/slide/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-02/ tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-02 0 0
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290845 Granted, she had a little bit of help. (Image: Giordano Ciampini) TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-03-200x200.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-03.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-03.jpg 1000 667 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-red-carpet-laggies/slide/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-03/ tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-03 0 0
(Image: Giordano Ciampini)
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290847 Mixed messages here. (Image: Giordano Ciampini) TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-05-200x200.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-05.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-05.jpg 1024 683 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-red-carpet-laggies/slide/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-05/ tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-05 0 0
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290848 Sam Rockwell. (Image: Giordano Ciampini) TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies TIFF 2014 Red Carpet: Laggies https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-06-200x200.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-06.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-06.jpg 1000 667 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-red-carpet-laggies/slide/tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-06/ tiff-2014-laggies-red-carpet-06 0 0
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trouper!