In the same interview, she noted that her daughters had finally moved on to Studio Ghibli films. \u201cThey\u2019re very cool right now,\u201d she told Fallon. \u201cIt\u2019s really weird\u2026after seven years of Peppa Pig.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jokes aside, Knightley has been candid about how parenting has changed her life. A 2024 interview with The Times<\/a> saw her reflecting on how she chooses projects as a mom of two. \u201cI\u2019ve been really surprised in the past few years about what I\u2019ve said no to,\u201d she shared. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted it to be more pure entertainment and maybe that\u2019s because I\u2019ve needed that. I keep being offered things about children dying or about mothers dying. Can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Although she keeps her children out of the spotlight and doesn\u2019t use social media, the Pirates of the Caribbean alum has spoken about them on several occasions. Here\u2019s everything Keira Knightley\u2019s shared about her two kids, Edie and Delilah.<\/p>\n Edie Knightley Righton Jon Kopaloff\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n Keira Knightley and James Righton at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2015.<\/p>\n Knightley first became a mom on May 25, 2015, welcoming daughter Edie. From her earliest days, Edie had her parents wrapped around her finger. “The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary,\u201d Knightley told Elle<\/a> of her feelings about her firstborn in August 2015.<\/p>\n Growing up with an actress mother and musician father, you\u2019d think Edie would feel drawn to a creative career, but her earliest aspirations were in a different vein. \u201cShe wanted to be a dentist, and now apparently she\u2019s been to the zoo and she wants to be a gorilla,\u201d Knightley told People<\/a> in 2018. \u201cSo we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m hoping for a dentist. It might be a bit tricky if she wanted to be a gorilla when she grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n In the same interview, she revealed Edie was nonplussed about her mom\u2019s uncommon career. \u201cI think she just thinks that everybody\u2019s mum is probably in pictures,\u201d Knightley joked. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really strike her as anything weird.\u201d<\/p>\n As for how she reacts to Knightley\u2019s films, in September 2025, the actress told People<\/a> \u201cThey\u2019re not interested in any way\u201d when it comes to her films. \u201cOne just thinks it\u2019s kind of completely ridiculous, and the other one still thinks it\u2019s all real on the TV.\u201d<\/p>\n Catching a glimpse of Pirates of the Caribbean at 3 years old didn\u2019t change Edie\u2019s mind. \u201c[S]he just didn\u2019t even bat an eyelid,\u201d Knightley explained to People<\/a> of her daughter\u2019s nonchalant reaction. \u201c[My character] fell off something into the water, and she said, \u2018You fell in the water.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes I did.\u2019 And she said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, Mummy, I rescue you.\u2019 And then she walked off and she just carried on playing, and we turned it off.\u201d<\/p>\n Delilah Knightley Righton Julien M. Hekimian\/Getty Images for Chanel<\/p>\n Keira Knightley and James Righton at the Chanel Cruise 2020 Collection in May 2019.<\/p>\n Knightley and Righton welcomed their second child, daughter Delilah, on September 13, 2019.<\/p>\n In an interview with Vogue<\/a> in 2023, Knightley shared that she\u2019s \u201cexactly not how I imagined myself to be\u201d as a parent. \u201cI thought I\u2019d be a hell of a lot more hippy than I am. And I\u2019m actually not hippy at all,\u201d she explained. \u201cI\u2019m not naturally a structured person, but my kids find structure really helpful. We\u2019re quite a timetabled house, which is literally the opposite of my entire personality.\u201d<\/p>\n That structure likely came in handy when the family went into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. “[Delilah] is a year now, yeah, and, you know, we went into lockdown when she was about six months, so she’s had a very strange life,” Knightley said in a September 2020 virtual appearance<\/a> on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n Later in their conversation, she shared that Delilah quickly reached a major milestone while watching big sister Edie run around the house. \u201cThe baby, who I thought would be sat and very easy to look after for quite a while, at 9 months, just decided to get up and start walking,\u201d she told Fallon. \u201cWhich I didn\u2019t even think was possible, because her feet were like this,\u201d the actress continued, holding up her hand to show how small her daughter\u2019s feet were.<\/p>\n Now 6 years old, Delilah doesn\u2019t quite understand her mother\u2019s career. \u201cShe says, \u2018What do you mean you\u2019re in the TV?\u2019\u201d Knightley told People<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n![\"Jon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4f19dea5ececd25c0c69103ce12ff0ef.jpeg\"\/)
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