Kiera Knightley Reveals the Creative Activity She Does to Help Her Dyslexia When She Is Memorizing Lines

Keira Knightley is giving uncommon penetration into really she navigates her acting profession pinch dyslexia.

During an quality connected The Graham Norton Show connected Friday, Oct. 31, nan Woman successful Cabin 10 star, 40, revealed that each nan drawings successful her caller children's book, I Love You Just nan Same, were done by her.

Knightley said she often does nan imaginative activity while listening to recordings of her scripts, arsenic drafting helps her to memorize lines.

"I tie a lot, anyway. I americium dyslexic, truthful I find learning lines rather difficult," she said.

Dyslexia is simply a learning upset that “disrupts really your encephalon processes written language. People pinch dyslexia person problem pinch reference and related skills,” according to nan Cleveland Clinic.

Knightley revealed that she listens to a signaling of her lines connected repetition while doing artwork.

"When I'm listening to them, I'm drafting nan full time," she said. "I deliberation they person to beryllium rather detailed, different nan lines don't spell successful my head. Normally, and I don't cognize why, but I'm drafting pictures of aged men pinch wrinkles."

"Hello," joked host Graham Norton arsenic Knightley replied, "I'll do 1 of you."

"Sounds for illustration you've done it already," said 62-year-old Norton.

"This was nan first clip that I've had to do thing not aged men pinch wrinkles and it had to beryllium thing other," nan character said, referring backmost to nan drawings successful her book. "I was doing it nan full clip I was doing Black Doves play one," Knightley added.

Knightley recalled getting diagnosed astatine property 6 while connected Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast past year. She said that her acquisition pinch dyslexia led to her becoming an actor.

"The schoolhouse said, 'Look, she can't publication astatine each and we request a carrot to dangle successful beforehand of her. Do you cognize if there's thing that she wants?' " she recalled her teachers asking her parents. "And they said, 'Well, she wants an agent.' "

Getting an supplier alongside opportunities to enactment motivated Knightley to support her grades up.

"It did spell up though! It was a carrot!" she joked.

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Knightley besides said connected nan podcast astir 1 of her daughters, who is dyslexic. The character shares daughters Delilah, 6, and Edie, 10, pinch hubby James Righton.

"We person a dyslexic kid," she said. "Her representation is perfectly amazing." Righton, who besides appeared connected nan podcast, added that their girl will "memorize nan book fundamentally — it's amazing."