Keira Knightley will stop shooting sex scenes directed by men, partly for reasons of vanity, according to her, final test everyone she has bodily insecurities, and partly because she is fed up with “standing in front of a group of naked men.” I don’t think I would like that much either!
Knightley discussed his decision in a recent episode of the Chanel Connects podcast, in conversation with filmmaker Lulu Wang and Diane Solway, director of feature and culture at Revista W. After two decades of acting, Knightley said he has become aware of the male gaze and how it often determines how sex is portrayed in cinema:
“I don’t want them to be those horrible sex scenes where you’re all fat and everyone growls, “she said.” I’m not interested in doing that.
“I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze. That said, there are times when I go, “Yeah, I completely see where that 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 vain and the body has had two children now and I’d rather not be in front of a group of naked men.”
Seconds the Hollywood Reporter, Knightley added a “no nudity” clause to her contract in 2015, after becoming a mother. In his conversation with Wang and Solway, however, he has no “absolute prohibition” on sex scenes. She would still consider shooting a nude scene, but only if the film required it to address issues such as motherhood or body acceptance, and only if the scene was directed by a woman.
“If it was about motherhood, how extraordinary this body is, how suddenly you look at this body that you have to know and that is yours, that looks completely different and has changed in ways that are unfathomable to you before you become a mother, then yes, I would be totally about to explore it with a woman who would understand, ”she said.
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It’s hard for me to say, but all of this seems eminently reasonable to me. Considering everything we’ve learned in recent years certain directors—And also that of industry general disregard for women’s comfort and safety: it is more than understandable that actors want to delimit strict limits.