Posted by Adam

Wednesday March 3, 2010

KEIRA Knightley doesn’t care what the critics say about her performances — she only trusts her father’s opinion.

The British actress — who’s currently appearing in The Misanthrope on London’s West End — insists her actor dad Will’s criticisms are “more brutal” than any magazine.

“I still haven’t read anything from the critics, but by the fact that I’m here, I’m assuming it went OK,” said Keira. “I don’t do it at all for anything. I think you have got to be very careful where you take your criticism from. It can completely throw you. It has to be someone that you know and you can trust, because then that’s helpful.

“I have a core group of people who I will absolutely listen to 100 per cent when they say something negative or positive. My father is absolutely extraordinary. I think he’s probably more brutal than any critic ever would be so I tend to go with him.”

Keira, 24, has previously admitted that people think she’s a terrible actress.

“Every time I do an interview with the English press, one of their questions is, ‘How do you feel knowing that everyone thinks you’re a sh*t actress?’” Keira, who was 2008′s second-highest-earning actress, told the March issue of Elle magazine.

“You have to be selective about the people whose advice and opinions you take,” she said.

“I know [my parents] would never tell me I was sh** because they were trying to hurt me,” she says. “It would always come from a very sincere place.”

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