The British actress refuses to star in this type of content under a “male gaze.” Additionally, she adds a “no n--ity” clause in her contracts.
Keira Knightley will not shoot an s-x scene again if the film's director is a man. “It's partly because of vanity and also because of the male gaze,” she explained on the Chanel Connects podcast. The actress has been uncomfortable exposing her body on the set since the birth of her two daughters: Edie, 5 years old, and Delilah, 1.
“I'm too vain and my body has already had two children, so I would prefer not to stand N- in front of a group of men,” said the 35-year-old movie star. “I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze.”
“I'm not interested in participating in those horrible scenes where you're all oiled up and everyone grunts,” continued the British actress, who since 2015 added a “no n--ity” clause to her film contracts.
Knightley admitted that sometimes she understands that a scene “could look very good in the movie,” but she stated that for this “you just need someone attractive” and they can count on someone other than her for those sequences.
However, she clarified that she is not totally opposed to starring in these types of scenes but she makes it a condition for accepting it that the film be directed by a woman.
The actress, who recently appeared in “Misbehavior,” a comedy-drama about the 1970 Miss World pageant and the women's liberation movement that formed around it, explained that she would be willing to appear in an erotic scene as long as it enriched her. an artistic perspective the story that the filmmaker intends to tell. “If she were doing a story about the journey of motherhood and body acceptance, then yes, she would be willing to explore that with a woman who understood it,” she noted.
It is not the first time that the artist shows off her feminist thinking, since during a 2018 interview with American presenter Ellen DeGeneres she confessed that she forbade her daughter from watching Disney movies like Cinderella, since "she is waiting for a rich man." rescue her”, an idea of a woman that she rejects.
That same year she publicly criticized Kate Middleton for sending a fictitious message about her motherhood. On the morning of May 2, after Kate gave birth to Charlotte, she and Prince William left the hospital and showed off her baby to the press. In an essay titled “The Weaker S*x,” which appears in the collection Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies), a project led by writer and co-founder of The Pink Protest, Scarlett Curtis, the actress took aim at the wife of the future king.
“We stopped and looked at the TV screen. Kate was outside the hospital, seven hours after giving birth, wearing makeup and heels. "That's the face the world wants to see," Knightley wrote in her lengthy essay in which she criticized Middleton for setting an unrealistic expectation for other women who are required to regain their former bodies as soon as possible, even hours after giving birth to a son. “You hide our pain, our divided bodies, our leaking breasts, our raging hormones. Don't show it. Don't tell it. Stay still with your baby in your arms and have your photos taken by a group of male photographers.”
