Keira Knightley will no longer film sex scenes directed by men, partly for reasons of vanity, she says – definitive proof of this fact everyone he has physical insecurities – and partly because he is tired of “standing in front of a group of naked men.” I don’t think I would like it so much either!
Knightley discussed her decision in a recent episode of the Chanel Connects podcast, in conversation with director Lulu Wang and Diane Solway, the director of feature film and culture at Revista W. After two decades of acting, Knightley said she became extremely aware of the male gaze and how it often determines how sex is portrayed in the film:
“I don’t want to be those horrible sex scenes where you’re all fat and everyone is muttering, “she said.” I’m not interested in doing that.
“I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze. Saying that, there are times when I go: “Yeah, I see completely where sex would be great in this movie and basically you just need someone to look hot.”
“So you can use someone else, because I’m too useless and the body had two children now and I’d rather not be in front of a group of naked men.”
Conformable Hollywood Reporter, Knightley added a “no nudity” clause to her contract in 2015, after she became a mother. However, in the conversation with Wang and Solway, she has no “absolute ban” on sex scenes. She would still consider filming a nude scene, she said, but only if the film required her to address issues such as motherhood or body acceptance – and only if the scene was directed by a woman.
“If it was about motherhood, about how extraordinary that body is, about how suddenly you look at this body that you have to know and that is yours and it is seen in a completely different way and it changes into ways that are incomprehensible to you before you become a mother, then yes, I would be totally prepared to explore this with a woman who would understand that, ”she said.
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I don’t find it hard to say, but all this seems eminently reasonable to me. Given everything I’ve learned in recent years certain directors– as well as industry general disregard for women’s comfort and safety – it is more than understandable that actors would like to set strict limits.