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Keira Knightley says she doesn't know a single woman who hasn't been harassed by men

Jason Guerrasio   

Keira Knightley says she doesn't know a single woman who hasn't been harassed by men
  • Knightley doesn't know a woman who hasn't been "flashed at" or "groped" or worse by men.
  • She added: "Or some guy saying they're going to slit your throat."
  • A random man also followed Knightley and a journalist to a park during the Harper's Bazaar interview.

In a profile for the July issue of Harper's Bazaar, Keira Knightley opens up about experiencing harassment from men throughout her life and admits she doesn't know a woman who hasn't dealt with some form of harassment.

"Yes! I mean, everybody has," Knightley responded when asked by writer Lydia Slater if she has suffered harassment firsthand. "Literally, I don't know anyone who hasn't been, in some way, whether it's being flashed at, or groped, or some guy saying they're going to slit your throat, or punching you in the face, or whatever it is, everybody has."

Slater notes in the profile that just before Knightley said this about harassment the two encountered a "lone male stranger" who walked up to Knightley and asked her if she went to school in the area because "you look very young."

The two walked away, Slater wrote, to find refuge in a nearby park only to see that the man showed up there a few minutes later.

"I think it's quite interesting talking about this while being chased around," Knightley said to Slater.

"I love that politician who said there ought to be a curfew for men and men were outraged, and you think - but there's a curfew for women and there always has been," the actress added.

The two-time Oscar nominee said she's only recently begun calling out the misogyny she's experienced.

"It was when women started listing all the precautions they take when they walk home to make sure they're safe, and I thought, I do every single one of them, and I don't even think about it," she said. "It's f---ing depressing."

Knightley made headlines at the beginning of the year when she said she's no longer willing to shoot sex scenes for male directors anymore and that she has added a no-nudity clause in her contracts.

"I don't want it to be those horrible sex scenes where you're all greased up and everybody is grunting," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star said on the "Chanel Connects" podcast with filmmaker Lulu Wang and producer Diane Solway.

She continued: "I'm not interested in doing that. You can use somebody else because I'm too vain and the body has had two children now and I'd just rather not stand in front of a group of men naked."

Knightley will next be seen in the British comedy "Silent Night."

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