Popular British actress, Keira Knightley has revealed that she was harassed on the street while she was giving an interview about the harassment women endure every day. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, the 36-year-old actress has opened up about her upbringing to facing the pandemic along with her family, reports Scary Mommy.
The article states that when Knightley was talking to reporter Lydia Slater about the rampant and inescapable harassment women face in the world, she was suddenly approached and was harassed by a man that very moment. Knightley and Slater were walking in North London and they were talking about feminism and how growing up no one ever told her that a career as a soccer player could be an option for her like it was for the boys. “It was when women started listing all the precautions they take when they walk home to make sure they’re safe, and I thought, I do every single one of them, and I don’t even think about it,” Knightley explains. “It’s fu*king depressing.” That’s when it happened.
“With immaculate timing, a lone male stranger wanders down the street towards us and starts shouting at her,” Slater writes. “Do you go to this school? You look very young!’ ‘Thank you,’ she says politely, as we hastily depart to find sanctuary in a nearby garden square; he follows us there a few minutes later.”
