Keira Knightley is passing on what she know about feminism to her kids.
In a new interview, the actress shared how "pleased" she was when her 4 1/2-year-old daughter had the most woke reaction to Sleeping Beauty.
Keira Knightley is passing on what she know about feminism to her kids.
In a new interview, the actress shared how "pleased" she was when her 4 1/2-year-old daughter had the most woke reaction to Sleeping Beauty.
It's precisely why she connected so well with her character in the historical drama, Collette, in 2018, which has been called one of her best roles to date.
Sadly, her husband started passing off her work as his own for his own gain.
Telling Colette's story was important for the actress.
"Within her writing, Colette was questioning the idea of gender and the idea of what was naturally feminine as opposed to society’s take on being feminine," she said.
“I’ve been raised by a feminist and my mum (Sharman Macdonald) was raised by a feminist," she said in an interview with Whimn.
And now, it looks like this family pattern is carrying on with Keira's two daughters, Delilah, 6 months, and Edie, 4½, both of whom she shares with her husband, James Righton.
It's surprising "Sleeping Beauty" was shown in her home since Knightley previously shared her decision to ban fairy tale movies since they don't set a positive example for kids.
Despite her best attempts, Keira shared that her daughter has "watched them all now,” the actor said with a groan.
But her daughter is obviously being raised right by Keira, who had a super woke reaction to the movie!
“I can’t tell you how pleased I was,” she said. “If I don’t do anything else, I’ve managed to drum that in!”
Don't feel guilty about doing well if "it’s making a man feel uncomfortable," she said.
"It doesn’t with my husband and it didn’t with my dad. But yet our society is telling us that’s what it should be.”
"I mean, sometimes he earned more, sometimes she earned more. I was not raised to think that was anything other than normal.”
It's partly why she wrote the personal essay, The Weaker Sex in 2018 for Scarlett Curtis's collection, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink – and Other Lies.
“I don’t think you shouldn’t present the perfect side of [motherhood] because, every so often, you might have the perfect side of it and you should celebrate that."
She continued:
“And then after whispered conversations with other mothers, I realized this is actually about our lives and our experiences not being told fully. That’s where I had a problem with it.”
In it, there's a rare scene about childcare that involves many dads.
“It’s not expected that men should look after their children; it’s seen as a bonus,” she said, with a roll of her eyes.
Misbehaviour hits U.K. theaters on Friday.
And for more of Keira's interview with PORTER, check it out here.