No more nude scenes now I’m a mother, says Keira, 33
SHE was happy to strip off on film at the beginning of her career.
Now, however, Keira Knightley says she resists appearing naked on screen because she is a mother in her thirties.
The actress, 33, uses a body double for scenes in which her characters appear nude and likes to choose them herself.
‘That was a choice,’ she said of her decision not to undress on camera any more. ‘I get to choose the body double. It is an interesting selection process! It kind of goes like, “That’s a little bit like you, but better. She has a lovely body, so she can do this”’... then I get final approval of what the edit is.’
She told The Times: ‘I have been comfortable earlier with more nudity than I am now. I have had a kid, I am in my thirties, I am very happy with my body. But I don’t feel I need to get it out that much any more.’
While Miss Knightley has appeared topless in films such as The Edge Of Love and The Duchess, she said that she has ‘never done a scene where I felt, “Whoa, that went too far”.’
She now has a no-nudity clause in her contract and is proud that she has ‘total control’ of every sex scene she appears in.
Miss Knightley, who worked with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on Begin Again and The Imitation Game, said she was ‘fortunate’ to never have had a negative experience with him.
‘It is for the victims to say what is necessary or not necessary... but I think let justice be done, absolutely,’ she added.
‘I don’t feel the need to get my body out’