“I’m not all for doing that.”
Keira Knightley.
On a current episode of the Chanel CONNECTS podcast, Knightley defined why her perspective in direction of filming intercourse scenes has shifted all through her profession, and why she will not movie them anymore in the event that they’re directed by males.
“I don’t have an absolute ban [on filming sex scenes, but I kind of do with men,” Knightley explained. “It’s partly vanity and also it’s the male gaze.”
“If I was making a story that was about that journey of motherhood and body [acceptance] I really feel like, I’m sorry, however that must be with a [woman] filmmaker.”
“I don’t need it to be these horrible intercourse scenes the place you’re all greased up and everyone is grunting,” Knightley continued. “I’m not all for doing that.”
“I really feel very uncomfortable now making an attempt to painting the male gaze.”
However Knightley additionally clarified that there are conditions by which she would nonetheless movie intercourse scenes. “Saying that, there’s instances the place I am going, ‘Yeah, I utterly see the place this intercourse can be actually good on this movie and also you mainly simply want any individual to look scorching’.”
Knightley’s newest movie, Misbehavior, got here out final 12 months. It is a comedy-drama in regards to the Ladies’s Liberation Motion in Seventies London, and I am trying ahead to watching it!
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