7:58 pm - 11/20/2012
Keira Knightley has been the subject of many headlines over the years about her petite stature, something that angers and frustrates the 27-year-old."I think the pressure we put on women to either be thinner or fatter or to have longer legs or shorter legs or bigger breasts or smaller breasts is disgusting," Keira told Access Hollywood at the junket for her latest movie, "Anna Karenina," Joe Wright's big screen adaptation of the classic Tolstoy novel.
"It's amazing in 2012 that that level of misogyny over women is still there... Particularly over young women," she continued. "We pull them apart." When asked if she likes to be thought of as a role model for other young people, Keira was quick to squash that notion.
"I'm a person. I'm completely flawed and nobody should look up to me as a role model," she explained. "But, hopefully what I can do is make some interesting stories."
Her latest role, where she plays the complicated Anna, who is embroiled in an affair with Count Vronsky, was challenging for the actress. "I loved [Anna] all the time, I don't necessarily know that I liked her some of the time," she told Access. "She's terrifying, because she really makes you go, 'Am I any better than she is? Do I have the right to judge her?' I think, everybody being human, nobody is better... That's why she is so intriguing."
"Anna Karenina," which also stars Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is in theaters now.
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:***** she has been giving us all such light& life during the AK promo tour
Keira Knightley Slams Hollywood's 'Disgusting' Body Obsession
Keira Knightley has been the subject of many headlines over the years about her petite stature, something that angers and frustrates the 27-year-old."I think the pressure we put on women to either be thinner or fatter or to have longer legs or shorter legs or bigger breasts or smaller breasts is disgusting," Keira told Access Hollywood at the junket for her latest movie, "Anna Karenina," Joe Wright's big screen adaptation of the classic Tolstoy novel.
"It's amazing in 2012 that that level of misogyny over women is still there... Particularly over young women," she continued. "We pull them apart." When asked if she likes to be thought of as a role model for other young people, Keira was quick to squash that notion.
"I'm a person. I'm completely flawed and nobody should look up to me as a role model," she explained. "But, hopefully what I can do is make some interesting stories."
Her latest role, where she plays the complicated Anna, who is embroiled in an affair with Count Vronsky, was challenging for the actress. "I loved [Anna] all the time, I don't necessarily know that I liked her some of the time," she told Access. "She's terrifying, because she really makes you go, 'Am I any better than she is? Do I have the right to judge her?' I think, everybody being human, nobody is better... That's why she is so intriguing."
"Anna Karenina," which also stars Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is in theaters now.
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:***** she has been giving us all such light& life during the AK promo tour
And I mentioned their looks only for the sole reason of conveying the irony of them coming down on her over her appearance.
Edited at 2012-11-21 01:18 am (UTC)
She was definitely more grating before and she's very much come into her own now.
And I'm less of a hater now than I was at 15.
& on a completely different note I still think she was the wrong choice for the role of Anna Karenina
So even though, to us, she looks perfect, in Hollywood she has 10 people telling her what she isn't.
And then she has the media calling her a bad role model and labelling her "scary-looking."
That's not fun.
i care that she can't act
lol at a dangerous method
not here for her jaw gesticulations in lieu of acting
her jaw was in full effect in those movies
Or just get your lips pumped already.
Edited at 2012-11-21 01:31 am (UTC)
is this
a thing that's happening
really. in this of all posts.