Actress Keira Knightley has revealed that she won’t shoot nude scenes for films with male directors.
Speaking with the Chanel Connects podcast, the 35-year-old actress says she has added a “no nudity clause” in her film contracts since becoming a mother, though acknowledges the need for nudity in certain films:
“I don’t have an absolute ban [on filming nude scenes], but I kind of do with men. It’s partly vanity and also it’s the male gaze. [I don’t] want it to be those horrible sex scenes where you’re all greased up and everybody is grunting. I’m not interested in doing that.
Saying that, there’s times where I go, ‘Yeah, I completely see where this sex would be really good in this film and you basically just need somebody to look hot,’ so, therefore, you can use somebody else. Because I’m too vain, and the body has had two children now, and I’d just rather not stand in front of a group of men naked… I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze.”
As part of the interview, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actress also explained that if a particular film focuses on female life experiences, she would insist on working with a female director – especially if it were something such as a story about motherhood and all the physical changes that come with that:
“If it was about motherhood, about how extraordinary that body is, about how suddenly you’re looking at this body that you’ve got to know and is your own and it’s seen in a completely different way and it’s changed in ways which are unfathomable to you before you become a mother, then yeah, I would totally be up for exploring that with a woman who would understand that.”
Knightley most recently filmed family drama “Silent Night” which co-stars Matthew Goode, Lucy Punch and Annabelle Wallis.
Source: THR
