Keira Knightley covers the latest issue of The Edit (net-a-porter’s in-house online magazine), likely to promote The Imitation Game. Funnily enough, she doesn’t mention the film at all. Great promotion, Keira!! But it’s still a nice piece because Keira seemed to be in a funny, brassy kind of mood and she wanted to talk about feminism and Hollywood and sex. You can read the full profile here and here are some highlights:

She doesn’t believe in fairytales: “I left them behind. Why should you be told to wait for some f***ing dude to rescue you?”

Why there are so many films about white dudes: “The people who make movies, whether it’s directors or producers or money people, look for things that they can identify with and if they’re all predominantly middle-aged white men, then what you see are things that middle-aged white men can identify with. And you don’t get anything for anybody else.”

The idea of a baby girl: “A friend of mine just had a daughter. It’s a political thing, having a baby girl, in a way that it isn’t for a boy. You think, ‘Oh, isn’t this fairy-tale lovely?’ Then suddenly you worry, ‘What [expectation] am I planting with that? I don’t want her to be waiting around for a man to fix her problems.’ Maybe it’s a bit silly, but because [gender] equality is going so hugely the other way, I think it probably does take being silly to try and swing it back round.”

Sex & violence in film: “I’ve turned a lot [of roles] down because of it, mostly because of really overt sex and violence that is just, in my view, not justified. I’m not saying that there can’t be really interesting stories about sex and violence, but a lot of it I just think, ‘This is gratuitous for the sake of being gratuitous, and you’d never ask a dude to do this.’ It’s actually a difficult question: how much flesh are you meant to bare? What are we saying is appropriate or not appropriate? We’re saying that we should be sexually liberated but then again not that sexually liberated. It’s confusing.”

Turning 30 next year, adulthood: “I don’t know, what’s that meant to feel like? There’s a concept of how you should be and I’m not sure anybody really fits into it. I hope they don’t, because I don’t feel like I do. I’m absolutely fine about it. I had a funny 22, I didn’t like that number. But 30, I’m alright with. With me, everything before 25 wasn’t so fun, but everything post has been great.

[From The Edit]

Keira talks here and there about kids, and I appreciate the fact that she’s not doing that tried-and-true “yes, of course I’m going to get pregnant soon, I love babies, yay!” thing that so many actresses fall into. I get the feeling that Keira does like the idea of motherhood but she wants to wait and she’s working all of it out in real time, in interviews. She’s thinking about babies and when she should or could have them, but she hasn’t really made up her mind yet. That’s my theory.

Photos courtesy of The Edit.