Keira Knightley falls ill due to overwork

Keira Knightley falls ill due to overwork

    Keira Knightley caught pleurisy due to overwork.
    The A Dangerous Method actress was struck by the lung problem last year — characterised by a pain when sufferers breathe — but at the time thought she had just hurt one of her ribs. She said: “You do period films and you get some sort of weird archaic disease. And I didn’t realise, so I went on for another month. I just stupidly never went to a doctor.
    I was rehearsing for this play and then I found in rehearsals it got so bad that I couldn’t stand up any more. And they said: ‘Please, can you go to the doctor?’” The 27-year-old star has since turned to yoga to help keep her limber and functioning, but that has also resulted in a few injuries.
    She told an Australian magazine: “My body at the end of last year was breaking and I thought, ‘I’ve really got to try and do something’. I’ve been trying to get myself into gear. I’ve been doing yoga, but I’ve already got injuries — from bloody yoga.” Keira’s most recent role was in an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel Anna Karenina, in which she played the lead, a role which she described as the “hardest thing I have done to date,” leaving her glad to let off some steam in the bar afterward.

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