Keira isn't very happy with the trailer for her new film ‘The Duchess’ because it suggests that the period drama is inspired from the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.


In the new movie, she plays Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, a distant relation of Princess Diana.

The trailer shows images of Keira's character and pictures of Princess Diana and reads: “The two were related by ancestry and united by destiny.”

“I am Georgiana. I am not Diana. The film is not about Diana,” the Telegraph quoted Keira, as saying.

The promo has also come under fire from Amanda Foreman, the author of the biography, which the film is based on, calling it ‘a bad joke.’

“There is absolutely no reason to have done this trailer, which is a bad joke,” she said.

“The marketing people probably thought the only way they could get young popcorn-eating brigade to see this film was if they made some comparison with Diana. But they did not need to and should not have done it,” she added.

She also said that the ‘united by destiny’ tag is inaccurate.

“I don”t actually think that Georgiana died in a carriage crash,” she said.

The movie comes out next month. At least it's getting a lot of publicity with this controversy.

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