His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
EW recently caught up with Flynn to break down Knightleys garb and that particular sequence from head to toe.
Making history
We first meet Mr. Knightley as he dresses for the day.
Credit: Autumn de Wilde/Focus Features
We got to know our dressers in the way real people from this period knew their valets or maids.
Getting meta, Knightleys valet is played by one of the productions actual wardrobe assistants, Connor Dalton.
Introducing Kightley this way also helps establish the intimacy between him and Emma (Anya Taylor-Joy) right away.
Theyre so intimate with each other; theyve known each other for years.
That day I was pretty much the only guy on set, and I had to be properly naked.
It was the opposite of my experience of getting naked on set usually.
It was such a gentle and loving and sweet and family-oriented set.
[De Wilde] was really honest about it being a male body intimately seen from the female gaze.
Im always grateful to be in a female-led environment, he says.
I get on better instinctively with women.
There is a flow.
There is not necessarily the same need to prove themselves.
Going commando
Your favorite Austen hero is buff in more ways than one.
They didnt wear underwear, Flynn notes.
We did it from beginning to end a few times, with a few different angles, Flynn says.
You have to kick somebody from behind while they tug the boot.
All the buttons and the cuff links and the things its crazy theres so many levels to it.
