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Keira Knightley Accepts Pay Cut for the Chance to Play an Interesting Female Character - Women and Hollywood
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Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley has revealed that she accepted the scale rate — or the minimum set by a union — of $1,300 a week to star in “Therese Raquin,” her Broadway debut. The movie star didn’t bristle about her pay cut because the job offered the opportunity to play a multi-faceted character, a rarity for actresses both on stage and screen.

“It’s very rare that I get offered interesting roles; there are very, very few out there,” Knightley told The Hollywood Reporter.

“The Imitation Game” star continued, “When something like this comes along, you go, ’I can sink my teeth into it and not just be the supportive girlfriend or wife,’ which can get pretty boring.”

#actrices #sexisme

Keira Knightley: Where are the Female Geniuses in Film?
▻http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/15/keira-knightley-where-are-the-hollywood-films-about-female-geniuses

Actress Keira Knightley, who was just nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in The Imitation Game, wants to know when Hollywood films will start to feature female geniuses.

The 29-year-old starlet (NDLR: glups!) (...)

“You’re asking if I’ve ever been offered a biopic about a female genius?” She asked. “No! What is up with that! Go on, you’re a writer, write one. I would love to play a genius.”

The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, is about British mathematician, cryptanalyst, logician, and computer scientist, Alan Turing.

(...) Knightley further pressed the writer on who he would choose to write a film about. “What about the mathematician who’s just won the — God, what’s the biggest maths prize? Fields Medal. What’s her name?” she asked. “That’s even worse. I can’t remember her name.”

(Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was the woman Knightley was referring to.)

#Maryam_Mirzakhani #Alan_Turing #hollywood #mathématiques #femmes

On a regardé Love Actually, de Richard Curtis, 2003. Pas dément, mais pendant tout le film, je me disais « le type amoureux de Keira Knightley, je le connais, mais d’où ? ». Hé ben ça m’est revenu en me couchant, ce matin j’ai vérifié sur IMDB : c’est Andrew Lincoln, qui interprète le héros dans The Walking Dead.

Ceux qui suivent ma vie culturelle ici savent qu’avant hier, j’ai vu The Mist, avec Laurie Holden, la blonde avec les yeux humides de The Walking Dead.

On a les références qu’on peut.