(Untitled)

[saffronlie]

It's the week for complaints about The Guardian. This interview with Keira Knightley has the journalist behaving like a sexist man-child, and goading Keira into giving him sarcastic and profane answers. He comes across to me as incredibly childish, and pushing buttons not in the interests of getting a good interview but because he's seven and wants

Comments

[saffronlie]

I KNOW, it's just so sexist! Argh! And, there was quite a thoughtful piece about her from The Observer, back in May, so I don't know why they needed to send this clown to bother her. I just keep going back to "would he do this to a male"? NO. Can you imagine? "Orlando Bloom, spell 'January' for me." "Daniel Radcliffe, did you know that a lot of people resent you for being the speckly Harry Potter git?" "Who'd ya spend last night with, James McAvoy?" It'd never happen!

What's more, if you must be a big-boy reporter and attempt "controversy", there are tactful ways to phrase it. "How do you feel when you're told that a lot of women resent you, Keira?" Not, "hey did you know women talk about you in a torrent of bile and loathing".

I actually used to be really irritated by Keira, but I've changed! She's grown and so have I. She's really talented and I have a lot of admiration for her and her work. And who is perpetuating these stereotypes about women, like that we all hate women who are thinner than us? It's so embarrassing and wrong, not to mention untrue.

Ugh, looking at it again (ew), this line jumps out: "but she's been so totally cool, and unfazed, and also to show that I haven't fallen totally under the pretty-lady spell". What a colossal jerk. "She hasn't broken yet, so I must break her, because she's pretty and that threatens me."