Keira Knightley revealed she shares a special trait with one of her two daughters. While speaking about how she finds sight-reading to be “really hard” with dyslexia on the Monday, August 5, episode of the “Ruthie’s Table 4” podcast , Knightley noted that she and her husband, James Righton , “have a dyslexic kid.” “It really bounces.
But I listen to it. Basically, I record it and listen to it and listen to it and listen to it, and that’s how I learn it,” she said. “She’s doing the same thing,” Knightley continued of her child.
“It’s absolutely amazing.” Righton, 40, chimed in, adding, “She’ll look at books. She’ll memorize the book, basically.
It’s amazing.” The couple, who wed in 2013, did not specify whether they were referring to their 9-year-old daughter, Edie, or 4-year-old, Delilah. On the podcast, Knightley credited her dyslexia diagnosis for helping her become an actress.
“The school said, ‘Well look, she can’t read at all, and we need a carrot to dangle in front of her. So, do you know if there’s something she wants?’” she stated. “And [my parents] said, ‘Well, she wants an agent.
” Knightley continued: “It was always, ‘If you read, if your grades go up, you’re allowed to keep on acting. But If they go down, then it stops.’ It did go up, though.
It was a carrot!” Knightley and Righton welcomed their first child two years after they tied the knot. “The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very prima.