It’s beyond the wildest dreams of most writers – persuading an Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress to appear in their first short film.

Let alone one such as Keira Knightley, who made £16m in 2008 and was named by Forbes as the second highest earning female in movies.

But that’s just what has happened to Rupert Friend, who has cast her in his debut, the The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers.

Of course it helps that the 24-year-old is his girlfriend.

Friend, who has been dating Knightley for four years, co-wrote the film with friend Tom Mison and both have starring roles.

In the film two brothers named Bourbon and Barath (Friend and Mison) go out to the shed to kill themselves everyday at two o’clock.

They try a different method each time. But each day they fail, having overlooked the presence of their frustrated fairy godmother (Knightley).

The Pirates Of The Caribbean and Atonement star undergoes a transformation for the film, in white backcombed wig and ghostly pale powdered skin.

Keira wears a bedraggled frayed dress and wings created by Oscar-winning Duchess designer Michael O’Connor.

The film also features Keira’s older brother Caleb’s soundscapes.

Yesterday Friend and Keira were arm-in-arm as they attended a London screening of the film.

Keira wore a floor-length black silk dress decorate with a painted floral design.

She has been in Somerset working on her next movie, Never Let Me Go, while Friend, 27, is currently filming The Kid, which is based on the true story of a boy in care who gets sucked into London’s criminal underworld.

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Sienna Miller turns to Keira Knightley for support.

“We were friends before we did the film and we became even closer,” she said. “She gives me good advice and hopefully vice versa. I think we keep ourselves afloat.”

Miller added that she relied on Knightley to dissuade her from the “awful temptation” that she had to Google herself, adding that she was often “mortified at what people can write about you”.

“It’s hard to ignore it,” she admitted. “Keira will phone me up. She’s like, ‘I’m thinking about doing it’. I’m like, ‘I am, too, but don’t do it’. And we’ll kind of talk each other out of it.”

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