{"id":222685,"date":"2025-10-18T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222685\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:15:10","slug":"keira-knightley-on-acting-hiatus-early-career-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222685\/","title":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley on Acting Hiatus, Early Career Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd then, of course, you start worrying you\u2019re going mad, like, \u2018Were they really\u00a0following me, or was I imagining it?\u2019 she said. \u201cSo, then you\u2019d buy all the papers\u2014and every single time\u00a0I was right. There would\u00a0be a photo. Even if I hadn\u2019t actually\u00a0seen\u00a0them. Because you\u2019re in a hypervigilant state. A heightened state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Keira found an unconventional way to stop the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassive resistance. So I just\u2026stopped,\u201d Keira\u2014who shares daughters Edie, 10, and Delilha, 6, with husband James Righton\u2014explained to the Sunday Times. \u201cI started wearing the same clothes every day: three pairs of the same jeans, stripy T-shirt, boots. I gave all my other clothes away. And then, if I was being followed, I stopped walking. I\u2019d literally stand\u00a0there. Stock still. One day, I stood there for five hours. \u2018If you\u2019re still there, I\u2019m not going. I\u2019m not going to move.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd then, of course, you start worrying you\u2019re going mad, like, \u2018Were they really\u00a0following me, or was I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-222685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}