Actress Keira Knightley is no longer interested in doing s3x scenes just to
appeal to men, she said, calling her no-n*dity decision partly a result of
having two children.
But if a female director was behind the
camera, that might be a different matter, the “Pirates of the Caribbean”
star said in a podcast.
“I feel very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze.
Saying that, there’s times where I go, ‘Yeah, I completely see where this
s3x would be really good in this film and you basically just need somebody
to look hot,’” Knightley said in a conversation with director Lulu Wang in a
Chanel Connects podcast.
“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 n-ked,” she added.
The British actress, 35,
added a no-n*dity clause to her contract after having children, saying she
was more vocal now than she had been as a breakout star in her early 20s in
movies like “Pride and Prejudice” and “Atonement.”
“If I was making a story that was about that journey of
motherhood and body acceptance, I feel like, I’m sorry, but that would have
to be with a female film-maker,” Knightley said. “I don’t have an absolute
ban, but I kind of do with men.”
“I don’t want it to be those
horrible s3x scenes where you’re all greased up and everybody is grunting.
I’m not interested in doing that,” she added.
Knightley gave birth to her second child with musician James
Righton in 2019.
