Keira Knightley has just lately revealed the value she needed to pay for her fame after Pirates of the Caribbean success.
In a brand new interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Atonement star talked concerning the perils of stardom she confronted in her early 20s after she gave hits like Bfinish It Like Beckham, Love Actually and Johnny Depp’s Pirates.
However, Keira opened up that the success got here at a “large value” as she was being informed she wished males to stalk her.
“There was an quantity of gaslighting to be informed by a load of males that you just wished this.’ It was rape communicate. You know, ‘This is what you deserve,” stated the 39-year-old.
Reflecting on her early days of battle within the trade, the Pride & Prejudice actress talked about, “It was a really violent, misogynistic environment. They very particularly meant I wished to be stalked by males.”
“Whether that was stalking as a result of anyone was mentally in poor health, or as a result of folks have been incomes cash from it — it felt the identical to me. It was a brutal time to be a younger girl within the public eye,” defined Keira.
Keira additional stated that it’s vicious “to have your privateness taken away in your teenage years,” after which they’re “put below that scrutiny at a degree when you find yourself nonetheless rising”
However, 20 years later, Keira famous that social media had made it worse for brand new women within the trade.
“Social media has put that in an entire different context, once you have a look at the harm that’s been achieved to younger girls, to teenage women,” continued the actress.
Keira added, “Ultimately, that’s what fame is — it’s being publicly shamed. A number of teenage women don’t survive that.”
