Keira Knightley: "I was suddenly pregnant doing an Oscar campaign"
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Roll out the red carpet because this week we welcome the one and only Keira Knightley to the Happy Mum Happy Baby studio!
She's known all around the world for her unforgettable roles in Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean and Bend It Like Beckham (just to name a few!). Now a proud mum of two, Keira sits down with Giovanna for a brilliantly unfiltered conversation about the highs and lows of motherhood.
Expect laughter, honesty, and a whole lot of heart — this is Keira Knightley as you’ve never heard her before!
Keira's debut children’s book, I Love You Just The Same, is available now!
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready? |
| 0:00.8 | I'm so ready. |
| 0:01.7 | I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm so ready. |
| 0:05.3 | Isn't that exciting? |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Today's guest is an amazing actress. |
| 0:15.9 | She started her career. |
| 0:16.9 | She kicked things off with films like Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, |
| 0:38.0 | Atonement, one of my all-time favourites. And her career has just, it's gone on quite the journey since then. She's just written and illustrated a children's book called I Love You Just the Same. She is a mum to two daughters. Today's guest, I'm so excited that you are here in front of me. It's Kira Knightley. Hello. Hi. Thank you for having me. We have chased you for quite a while, Kira to get you on the podcast. You know, I'm thrilled. I love being chased. I actually don't love being chased. But, you know, I was not going to go that. But thank you. That's very sweet. I'm very excited that you're here. There's cake upstairs. There's never cake here in the studio. Is it just for me? |
| 0:56.0 | It is. |
| 0:56.4 | You're going to sit there and eat it all before you. That's very sweet. I'm very excited that you're here. There's cake upstairs. There's never cake here in the studio. Is it just for me? |
| 0:56.0 | It is. You're going to sit there and eat it all before you leave. |
| 0:58.4 | I will. I won't be allowed out until I've eaten all the cake. |
| 1:01.1 | It's fine. How are you? |
| 1:02.8 | I'm really good. I mean, I'm really good, yeah. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, are you excited about being on a podcast? |
| 1:06.8 | I'm very excited about being on a podcast. I don't know what I'm going to say. |
| 1:09.3 | But I mean, but I'm excited to be here with you. But it's an interesting thing, isn't it? Because usually when you're sitting down and doing an interview, I know we're talking about the book today. Yeah. But you are there to talk about a film that you worked on and you have a set amount of time. Yeah. and it's very driven. You want to get those things in. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | And this is why I started the podcast in the first place, actually, because I think so often when you see people on the sofas of like this morning or Lorraine or, you know, talking about motherhood, you know that you're not there to talk about that stuff, actually. You're there to promote your film. And you want to quickly go, yes, it's amazing, move on. |
| 1:28.3 | You don't know what I mean? |
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