Keira Knightley on modern films: ‘female characters nearly always get raped’

Keira Knightley is voicing her concern over the way women are treated in films.

In an interview with Variety, the 32-year-old actress discussed how she tends to shy away from taking on modern-day films “because the female characters nearly always get raped.”

“I always find something distasteful in the way women are portrayed, whereas I’ve always found very inspiring characters offered to me in historical pieces,” Knightley said, noting there’s been some improvement over the years but the industry still has a lot of work to do. 

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