‘The Male Gaze’: Keira Knightley Says No More Nude Scenes With Male Directors

In a podcast interview released this month, actress Keira Knightley revealed that she has a new rule for appearing in nude scenes: they can only be in films with a woman director.

Knightley, who said in March 2020 that she had implemented a no-nudity clause in her contract with veto power over any sex scene she appeared in, told the Chanel Connects podcast of her new ban on male directors: “I don’t have an absolute ban but I kind of do with men. It’s partly vanity and also it’s the male gaze.”