Fug the Cover: Keira Knightley

I am really looking forward to Atonement, the project Keira Knightley here is currently flogging. The book is great, and I hear the movie is just fantastic. God knows, I’m a sucker for British period pieces in which women in great outfits run through beautiful fields crying about men. But if Keira has any sense, right now she’s running through the streets of London crying about the make-up they put on her for this cover:

DUDES. Last time I checked, K. Kni wasn’t a moderately depressed topless mime-clown, nor does she play one in the film, nor are moderately depressed topless mime-clowns all the rage.  So what gives? Did KK accidentally run over Interview‘s editor-in-chief’s dog with her car? Did she burn down the photographer’s house? Did she steal the styist’s place in line at an open bar? Because to me, this cover looks like revenge.