she's played by keira nightly who put -- knightley who puts in an amazing performance.ig employed freud -- sigmund freud i don't have a sword or a gun or horse to help me. he uses words as his weapons. he uses his words to seduce, to charm. he does have a cigar often. that's sort of a weapon as well, and it took some getting used to, frankly. as an actor, i've not been given that much dialogue in a movie before. it was an enjoyable challenge to find a way to make that active,000 make this funny. fortunate in the research, i learned that sigmund freud was not such a dry academic stiff guy. he was a very warm, gregarious, outguying person and loved a good joke, a glass of wine, big appetite for life. i think when you go to see this movie, you see there is a certain irony, wittiness to the character and the exchange he has with carl young and others. >> i have to admit. i never thought of him as a gregarious or funny person. is it a historical reality or fiction. >> to some degree it's going to be fiction. the great screen writer is based on letters between these character