Actor
Keira Knightley said the portrayal of women being subjected to sexual violence in modern films is the reason she prefers doing period dramas. "I don't know about films as much. I don't really do films set in the modern day because the female characters nearly always get raped. I always find something distasteful in the way women are portrayed, whereas I've always found very inspiring characters offered to me in historical pieces," Knightley told.
The
'Pirates of the Caribbean'
actor will next be seen in
'Colette'
, a biopic in which she portrays French novelist
Gabrielle Colette
. Knightley said there has been some improvement in
Hollywood
in "the last few years" as women's stories are suddenly being viewed as important.
"There's been some improvement. I'm suddenly being sent scripts with present-day women who aren't raped in the first five pages and aren't simply there to be the loving girlfriend or wife," she said.