Famous families.

2008-06-17 23:00:01

"The Edge of Love," director John Maybury's biopic about the amours of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (played by Matthew Rhys), is having its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival tomorrow. Anna Burnside at the London Times talks to screenwriter/playwright Sharman Macdonald about how one gets such a film made, the secret being, and here's one for all the struggling writers out there to try at home, to get your daughter Keira Knightley to sign on as one of the leads. Knightley asked to read the script, loved it, and set up some meetings in LA. It was during one of these calls that Knightley accidentally cast herself as Vera. "They said to her, 'Of course you're going to be in it', and she said, 'Well, Shar' -- that's what she calls me, she doesn't call me Mum -- 'I couldn't say no'." Also in the Times, Andrew Lycett interviews Thomas'...

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