Keira Knightley Works on Indy Film for Free!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 5:03 pm by
That’s what we like to see, true talent suffering for their art!
Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley is rumored to receive around five million dollars a movie, but recently she donated her talents for free.
In Maze, an independent movie shot last year, Knightley plays an Elizabethan courtier who is unsuccessfully reunited with her lover when the couple gets trapped inside an unwieldy maze.
Thanks to opportune circumstances, such as Knightley waiving her usual fee, the film was reportedly made with a tiny budget of $23,000. Sacrificing the typical feature film perks, such as having her own private dressing room can’t have been easy, as Maze was shot with a true low-budget approach, so um no trailer!
In an interview with British newspaper The Independent, Knightley explained why she decided to work for free on such an obscure project when she said: “I loved the idea of doing something that was purely creative, weird and wonderful and not a commercial venture.”
The short, directed by Stuart Pearson Wright, will premier next month at the Riflemaker gallery in London alongside Wright’s paintings.
It’s refreshing to see people value art for art’s sake and support pure creativity instead of just doing it for the money. Great choice Keira!
