Actress Keira Knightley revealed during a recent appearance on the Chanel Connects podcast, a series of interviews that was launched by the French fashion house earlier this month, that she would no longer do sex scenes for male directors, citing the discomfort in “trying to portray the man look. ”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Knightley – who most recently appeared in the 2020 dramatic comedy “Misbehavior”, which was set during the British women’s liberation movement in the 1970s – has maintained a “nudity ban clause” since became a mother in 2015.
But, as she told fellow podcast guests, filmmaker Lulu Wang and writer Diane Solway, she is in a place where she would be more flexible if she were working with a director. “I don’t have an absolute ban [on filming nude scenes], but I kind of like men, “said Knightley.” Partly it is vanity and it is also the masculine look. “
She continued, “Saying that, there are times when I think, ‘Yes, I completely see where that sex would be really good in this movie and you basically just need someone to look hot’, so therefore, you can use someone else. Because I am very conceited, and the body has had two children now, and I simply prefer not to stand in front of a group of naked men. “
As the conversation continued, which was partially centered on the need for strong women on both sides of the camera, Knightley expressed that he was particularly interested in moving forward in the search for projects that explore the depth of the female experience, from motherhood to the complicated nuances body image, especially in a society that values young people – but these films would have to be made with a filmmaker on the other side of the camera.
“If it were about motherhood, about how extraordinary this body is, about how suddenly you are looking at this body that you have to know and that is yours and is seen in a completely different way and has changed in ways that are incomprehensible to you before you became a mother, so yes, I would be totally willing to explore this with a woman who would understand it, “she said. “But I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the masculine look.”
Knightley shot to fame as an actress after her appearance in the 2002 movie “Bend It Like Beckham”. She starred in box office hits like the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and the 2005 film adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”. Next, she will be part of the Christmas comedy “Silent Night”, directed by Camille Griffin.