The actress, who is gearing up for the release of her new movie 'The Imitation Game', says her recent topless shot is a protest against image manipulations.
- Nov 8, 2014
AceShowbiz - Keira Knightley posed topless for a magazine last month and now she opens up about her decision, saying that it was a protest against retouching photos. In a new interview with The Times of London, the actress shared that she was okay with posing topless as long as her body was not digitally altered.
"I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters," she explained. "That [shoot] was one of the ones where I said, 'Okay, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are."
"I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame," she added. "It's much easier to take a picture of somebody without a shape; it simply is. Whereas actually you need tremendous skill to be able get a woman's shape and make it look like it does in life, which is always beautiful. But our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape."
In the black-and-white shot on Interview magazine taken by photographer Patrick Demarchelier, Knightley can be seen standing with no top on. She stares at the camera while her arms are on her sides.
The 29-year-old actress is now gearing up for the release of her new movie "The Imitation Game". Also starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Strong, the Morten Tyldum-directed World War II drama is set to hit U.S. theaters on November 28.
