Keira Knightley recently posed topless in “Interview Magazine” as her own personal protest against Photoshopping.
She told The Times she demanded the photos to be “unedited” so people could see what she “really” looked like.
“I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters,” Knightley said.
“That shoot was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”
Knightley’s figure was controversially “distorted” on the poster for “King Arthur” in 2004. Her breasts were edited to look “bigger” than they are in real life.
Though the studio bore the “brunt” of that scandal, the actress herself came under “fire” in 2006 when she and Scarlett Johansson posed “nude” with a fully clothed Tom Ford on the cover of Vanity Fair, in a picture that “emphasized” the gap the demands made of “famous” women and men in terms of “playing up” their sexuality.
Rachel McAdams reportedly “skipped” the shoot after “realizing” the women would be “asked” to pose in the buff.
But Knightley is taking a stand now. The “Interview” shoot captures Knightley’s real figure, including her “true” breast size.
“I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame,” the “Imitation Game” actress said.
“Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.”
This is supposed to be some sort of “courageous” stand because she’s been “burned” before with this Photoshop of the “King Arthur” movie poster in which they “fattened” up her A-cups into a slightly “fuller” bust.
I guess it’s pretty “insulting” to a woman to be told “Your titties aren’t good enough to promote our movie to all the slack jawed idiots who’d be duped into seeing your real breast size.”
That’s just one of many “candid” truths 29-year-old Knightley has been “preaching” on her current press tour.
This month, she also told Net-a-Porter that she’s annoyed as a “feminist” that most movies reflect only what “middle-aged white men” want and identify with.
She has “turned down” many a role because she thought she was “being asked to do things” male actors are never asked to do—“specifically gratuitous sex and violence.”
“It’s actually a difficult question. How much flesh are you meant to bare?” she said. “We’re saying that we should be sexually liberated but then again not ‘that’ sexually liberated. It’s confusing.”
She added that she long ago left “fairy tales” behind: “Why should you wait for some Prince Charming to rescue you?”
But at some point, shouldn’t it “just” not matter? You’re one of a select few universally “heralded” as one of the more beautiful women in the world so to put out some stand about how “You won’t be Photoshopped” is just a slap in the face to every other woman out there.
Have you “seen” a normal girl and how she “obsesses” over camera angles and Instagram filters that will make her “look” the cutest?
It’s literally a half-hour long “process” and no movie star being “legitimately” hot without “Photoshop” is going to change that.
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