Head’s up to Keira Knightley’s boyfriend Rupert Friend: Don’t go renting The Notebook on that next date night.

In December’s Elle, the actress, 22, admits, “I love romantic films … But I don’t like being raped by sugar.”

She also opens up about being moody, shooting a sex scene in her new flick Atonement (out December 7) and why she hates the word “cute.”

On being moody:
“I’m a moody bastard. Actually, I’ve been banned from reading newspapers because the way they’re written angers me so much. If I want an opinion, I’ll read the opinion part of the newspaper. I do not want it when I’m trying to get the facts. I get incredibly angry. It really f—ks me off. See, I have to calm down about it.”

On becoming aware of her sexual powers:
“Oh, my god. I don’t think I’m aware of it now! No… I’m lying. I don’t know why I said that. No, I’m not lying, actually. I’ll just have an argument with myself!”

On her sex scene in upcoming movie Atonement:
“There was no knob-touching, for real. But it certainly looked like that.”

On the word “cute”:
“I hate cute, I’ve always hated cutesy. My mom used to ban the word cute. Absolutely banned.”

On cell phones:
“I hate them. It rings, and then I realize that I don’t want to talk to anyone. So I always press ignore.”

Source: US Magazine

Though Keira Knightley is only 22, the spritely actress has already had her fair share of steamy on-screen moments. And unlike some of her fellow young stars, Keira doesn’t balk at the thought of having to portray those intimate moments on film.

“It’s part of my job, I’m an actress,” Keira, who has a particularly sensual scene with co-star James McAvoy in their upcoming film Atonement, explains to the UK’s Western Mail. “I think all you’ve got as an actress is your face and your body, and what’s inside your head, your voice – those are my tools, I have to use them.” That being said, it isn’t always as fun as it looks in the finished product. “At first you’re a bit embarrassed – and then it became a laugh, and it’s fine.”

Atonement, which just premiered at the Venice FIlm Festival to rave reviews, opens in limited release Dec. 7.

Source: OK!

Keira Knightley has kissed some of the biggest heartthrobs in Hollywood, but her current leading man gets top billing.

“James [McAvoy] is the best kisser ever!” a giggling Knightley, 22, said of her Atonement costar while sitting in romantic Venice.

Despite kissing Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, Knightley – who is currently dating actor Rupert Friend – glanced at McAvoy and diplomatically dubbed him the best on the opening day of the Venice Film Festival.

McAvoy, 28, reciprocated the compliment saying, “I was blown away by Keira. The amount of poise and grace she has is just incredible.”

In Atonement, a war drama set in 1935, Knightley plays plays Cecilia Tallis, an upper-class beauty whose fledgling love affair with the housekeeper’s son (James McAvoy) is destroyed by a tragic misunderstanding.

McAvoy – who is married to British actress Anne-Marie Duff – told PEOPLE he was enjoying Venice “very much,” adding, with a smile, “it’s very romantic.”

Source: People

Keira Knightley routinely makes World’s Most Beautiful lists – including PEOPLE’s, in 2005 – but the actress is somewhat bewildered by the widespread interest in her looks.

“Somebody goes, ‘Gosh, you’re pretty,’ ” Knightley, 22, tells the U.K.’s Radio Times. “Thanks. I’ve got good genes!

But she can’t just credit her family, she admits, saying: “OK, I’m on the cover of a magazine but somebody else does the hair, and the makeup, and airbrushes the f— out of me – it’s not me, it’s something other people have created.”

The Pirates of the Caribbean star – who replaced Kate Moss as the face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle fragrance – says she also can’t understand people’s obsession with wanting to be well-known.

“It frightens me when kids go, ‘I want to be famous,’ ” she says. “Why? Because you can get into a restaurant? You know what? If you book [a table], you can get into a restaurant! ‘I want to be rich and famous.’ Go and work on the stock market.”

Knightley’s fear about the reaction of “kids” was dealt with in January, when she successfully sued Britain’s Daily Mail for suggesting she had an eating disorder.

“You couldn’t say anything more horrendous,” Knightley said of the newspaper’s claims about her thin looks – which, she explained at the time, had to do with the arduous work on the final Pirates movie. “So yes, I did take a hard line, and I would take that line again.”

Knightley is comfortable with herself now, but says in her teens she was too self-conscious to even watch her own rushes, because, she says, “When I was 16, 17, I felt incredibly awkward about the way I looked.”

Source: People