Keira Knightley can’t get enough of the robust sex scenes in bonkbuster Rivals

Keira Knightley reckons raunchy Disney+ TV series Rivals has surpassed her celebrated enactment country successful World War II play Atonement.

The 39-year-old histrion starred successful the 2007 movie alongside James McAvoy, and their bonking-on-a-bookcase country became 1 of the astir memorable successful noughties movie history.

But present the Pride and Prejudice histrion thinks Rivals has good and genuinely blown that tame small infinitesimal retired of the water.

Based connected a Jilly Cooper novel, Keira commented Rivals for its ‘extraordinary’ magnitude of enactment – to the constituent wherever determination is nary examination betwixt it and Atonement.

She told The Sunday Times about the amusement – which stars Emily Atack, David Tennant and Danny Dyer: ‘I loved each 2nd of it. I thought they were each brilliant. The bonking is extraordinary.

‘The astir celebrated enactment country that I’ve done, and the 1 that worked the best, was successful Atonement.

‘That was superb due to the fact that it was storyboarded.’

She added astir antheral nudity successful Rivals: ‘It’s truly upped. There’s a batch of bottoms. It’s amazing.

‘And actually, pistillate nudity has gone down rather a lot, which is interesting.’

Keira was speaking to beforehand her upcoming Netflix bid Black Doves, which sees her and histrion Sarah Lancashire, 60, play a spy and spymaster.

The six-part spy thriller – written by Joe Barton – is acceptable against the backdrop of London astatine Christmas, and the bid follows Helen Webb (Keira), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated woman and parent who is besides a nonrecreational spy.

After a decennary of passing connected her person husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for – the Black Doves – Helen’s concealed person Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated.

Following this shocking crook of events, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls successful Helen’s aged person Sam (Ben Whishaw), an assassin, to help.

Keira – besides famed for roles successful Love, Actually, Official Secrets, Pirates of the Caribbean, Anna Karenina and The Duchess among galore others – is listed arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the show.

The prima besides opened up astir the caller parameters she has acceptable for her work commitments aft having children.

The parent of Edie, 9 and Delilah, five, who she has with her instrumentalist husband James Righton, 41, added: ‘I couldn’t spell occupation to occupation (abroad) now. It wouldn’t beryllium successful immoderate mode just connected them, and I wouldn’t privation to.

‘I’ve chosen to person children, I privation to bring them up, truthful I’ve had to instrumentality a large measurement back.’

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