Ahead of the release of her new project, Black Doves, actress Keira Knightley has been making press circuits in anticipation of the show. While discussing the Netflix series, she took time to discuss the way she was treated during her early days in Hollywood and expressed her disdain for it.
While speaking specifically to the Los Angeles Times, Knightley gave the details about the difficulty that she faced, especially being the age that she was.
She explained that people would tell her that she “wanted to be stalked,” which led to massive discomfort for her at the time.
Business Insider made note of the fact that Knightley made a splash in the industry when she was still young. She starred in one of her breakout roles, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, when she was just 17. Knightley would continue to star in the second and third films in the series as well.
“They very specifically meant I wanted to be stalked by men. Whether that was stalking because somebody was mentally ill, or because people were earning money from it — it felt the same to me. It was a brutal time to be a young woman in the public eye,” Knightley said. She also described the environment as “misogynistic.”
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