Hold on to your hair Keira! Star battles winds in Toronto

Keira Knightley faced thunderstorms at the premiere of her new film Laggies
Keria Knightley smiles through the stormy weather and still manages to look stunning REUTERS/Fred Thornhill
Rachael Sigee11 September 2014
The Weekender

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She might be used to being battered by rain and high winds back on British soil, but Keira Knightley faced the same conditions last night at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The actress was on the red carpet for the second night running for the premiere of her movie Laggies, in which she stars with Sam Rockwell and Chloe Grace Moretz.

Knightley confronted the stormy weather in good spirits, giggling as she struggled to keep her hair and dress under control.

She gamely chatted with photographers and still managed to look flawless as she posed for the crowds, who shouted suggestions that she "Be Beyonce!"

Knightley, 29, wore a sheer, tiered midnight blue dress with beaded embellishment by the designer Michael van der Ham and opted for a low-key ponytail tied with a navy ribbon to keep her tresses out of her eyes.

Keira Knightley blown away at Laggies Toronto Film Festival Premiere

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She told the Toronto Sun: "'I’m like, "Look, I’m not Beyonce,"' Keira joked to the publication. 'I’m wearing Michael van der Ham and I haven’t done him any justice! Oh, my God! The elements! The elements!

"I think the tent is about to collapse! This is fun right? Are we having fun?"

Romantic comedy Laggies, directed by Lynn Shelton, sees Knightley play a twenty-something woman stuck in a rut, who befriends a carefree teenager (Moretz) after a disastrous high school reunion.

The previous night, Knightley had been accompanied by her husband, musician James Righton, to promote her other new film The Imitation Game, a biopic of Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing which stars Benedict Cumberbatch.

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