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Keira Knightley Uses Art to Cope with Dyslexia and Memorize Scripts

Keira Knightley Uses Art to Cope with Dyslexia and Memorize Scripts
‘It helps me remember lines’: Keira Knightley reveals how art helps her live with dyslexia · financialexpress.com

Keira Knightley, a famous actress, has dyslexia, which makes it tricky for her to remember things like movie lines.

She found a super cool way to help her brain!

When she listens to her lines, she draws very detailed pictures.

She says she often draws old men with wrinkles while she listens.

This helps her focus and remember her lines much better.

She even drew all the pictures for her new children's book because drawing helps her learn.

Keira was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was just six years old, and even one of her daughters has dyslexia too.

She shows that even though dyslexia can make things harder, creative ways can help overcome these challenges.

Key facts

Actor
Keira Knightley
Condition
Dyslexia
Coping Mechanism
Drawing and listening to repeated line recordings
Diagnosis Age
Six years old
Creative Project
Illustrating her children's book, 'I Love You Just the Same'
Family Member with Dyslexia
One of her daughters

Quotes

Keira Knightley

Actress

“When I’m listening to them, I’m drawing the whole time. I think they have to be quite detailed, otherwise the lines don’t go in my head. Normally, and I don’t know why, but I’m drawing pictures of old men with wrinkles.”
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“This was the first time I had to draw something other than old men with wrinkles, and I was doing it while filming Black Doves season one.”
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James Righton

Actor's husband

“She’ll memorise the whole book, it’s incredible.”
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