Los Angeles, Jan 18 (PTI) Actor Keira Knightley saidthe portrayal of women being subjected to sexual violence inmodern films is the reason she prefers doing period dramas.
Knightley, however, credited streaming giants Netflixand Amazon for producing original dramas with "strong femalecharacters and female stories".
"With the rise of Netflix and Amazon we're seeing somestrong female characters and female stories on streamingservices.
"I don't know about films as much. I don't really dofilms set in the modern day because the female charactersnearly always get raped. I always find something distastefulin the way women are portrayed, whereas I've always found veryinspiring characters offered to me in historical pieces,"Knightley told Variety.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor will next be seenin "Colette", a biopic in which she portrays French novelistGabrielle Colette.
Knightley said there has been some improvement inHollywood in "the last few years" as women's stories aresuddenly being viewed as important.
"There's been some improvement. I'm suddenly beingsent scripts with present-day women who aren't raped in thefirst five pages and aren't simply there to be the lovinggirlfriend or wife," she said. PTI RBBK.
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