Knightley says film ‘Misbehaviour’ highlights battle for equality

LONDON (Reuters) – Keira Knightley said her new film “Misbehaviour”, the legitimate story of how the Women’s Liberation Motion disrupted the 1970 Skip Globe levels of competition, felt appropriate at a time when people today were still preventing for equivalent remedy.

Knightley, 34, plays a member of the Women’s Liberation Motion, which storms the phase of the London theater in which the attractiveness pageant was staying held. That year Skip Grenada gained, the initial time a black competitor had taken the crown.

The themes of feminism and racism appealed to the actress, she said, as they had ongoing resonance in a planet in which equality still felt a very long way off.

“What I liked about this film was that discussion for the reason that it felt so incredibly appropriate to what we’re still talking about these days,” Knightley instructed Reuters in an interview.

Back again in 1970, Skip Globe was the most-watched Television set display on the planet with far more than a hundred million viewers, indicating the protest created pretty a stir. Misbehaviour opens in British cinemas on March 13, starring Greg Kinnear as pageant host Bob Hope, the comedian, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Skip Grenada.

Knightley is even far more mindful of women’s legal rights and similar concerns like the #MeToo movement which calls out sexual misconduct throughout the leisure, politics and business industries, for the reason that she is boosting two youthful daughters.

“With social media…I do absolutely fret about that with my young ones and I fret about the form of images that they’re likely to be bombarded by,” she said.

But Knightly believes progress has been designed and the film pays tribute to the girls who aided obtain that.

“I think you have to honor and mark the girls that created that fantastic progress ahead of us,” she said.