Keira Knightley: I FELL FOR EWAN ON STAR WARS
SHE'S been voted our sexiest movie star but 20-year-old Keira Knightley still blushes when she reveals how she fell for Ewan McGregor.
The beauty has had a meteoric rise to fame, sharing the screen with stars such as Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant and Oscar-winner Adrien Brody.
But it was the Scots star of Star Wars who provoked her first on-set crush... and biggest embarrassment.
Newly-single Keira is reluctant to talk about her recent split from Jamie Dornan, her boyfriend of two years, but confesses that she still goes red thinking about how her infatuation with Ewan came to a crashing end.
Though her fame is still new, Keira had been acting since she was a child and, at 12, played Natalie Portman's decoy double in Star Wars Episode 1, alongside Ewan's Obi-Wan Kenobi "Thesetwasquitealongwayaway," she recalls, "so they'd take you there in these golf buggies. And the costume I wore was this really elaborate Japanese-style outfit, so I couldn't put it on beforehand or it would crease.
"So I usedtogetoninabathrobeandput the costume on when I got to the set "One day I got on the golf buggy and Ewan McGregor jumped on the back. I was completely starstruck because it was the first time I'd met him."
Unfortunately for Keira, the driver of the buggy decided to take the last corner at speed and, before she had a chance to speak to the star, disaster struck "I fell off," she laughs. "I went flying off the back of the golf buggy - legs everywhere and flashing everything "Sincethen, I haven't actually been able to look at Ewan McGregor once. I've been so embarrassed."
By Siobhan Synnot
Sunday mail
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