# Give it up, Keira, we've all seen your boobs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252 "2005-01-29T06:19:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/21 "2005-01-29T18:09:20Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > She should have gone topless in _King Arthur_. Then the movie might not’ve sucked so much. She basically did. Ridiculous costuming. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/22 "2005-01-29T18:25:55Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > _The Hole_ was released in 2001, possibly filmed before that. _Zhivago_ was released in 2002. Keira Knightley turned 18 on March 26, 2003. So both would probably be consider child porn in the USA if she were actually nude in them. Well, then they sewed her head on someone else’s topless body. Since she’s topless, with her head in frame. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/23 "2005-01-29T18:47:43Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Not unless she has an identical twin. Maybe it was Natalie Portman. ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/24 "2005-01-29T18:53:29Z")
I think in the UK topless is ok if you’re over 16. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/25 "2005-01-29T18:58:01Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > _The Hole_ was released in 2001, possibly filmed before that. _Zhivago_ was released in 2002. Keira Knightley turned 18 on March 26, 2003. So both would probably be consider child porn in the USA if she were actually nude in them. Thora Birch was 17 when she appeared topless in American Beauty. That movie isn’t considered child porn. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/26 "2005-01-29T18:58:08Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > _The Hole_ was released in 2001, possibly filmed before that. _Zhivago_ was released in 2002. Keira Knightley turned 18 on March 26, 2003. So both would probably be consider child porn in the USA if she were actually nude in them. Breasts, in an ‘artistic’ context, would almost certainly not be judged as such. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/27 "2005-01-29T19:18:50Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Breasts, in an ‘artistic’ context, would almost certainly not be judged as such. Well, to me, I don’t really care much one way or another. Breasts are breasts. I think the MPAA looks at whether things are intended to be, for lack of a better word, tittilating. I’ve not seen either film, just looked it up from stuff said here. So, what was the artistic context of the two mentioned nude scenes? ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/28 "2005-01-29T19:44:30Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > So, what was the artistic context of the two mentioned nude scenes? Well, the one I saw would hardly qualify as a “nude scene”. She flashed her breasts at a guy who had his back to her. The sort of thing that earns a movie the dreaded “brief nudity” warning on HBO. I can totally see why she could say that a new movie is her first “nude scene”, as in, the first time that she was naked (or topless) for a majority of a whole scene while being filmed. -lv ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/29 "2005-01-29T19:51:29Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Well, to me, I don’t really care much one way or another. Breasts are breasts. I think the MPAA looks at whether things are intended to be, for lack of a better word, tittilating. I’ve not seen either film, just looked it up from stuff said here. > > So, what was the artistic context of the two mentioned nude scenes? I’ve seen neither of the scenes. But I very much doubt they’re simply a whole sequence of decontextualised Knightley bosom. If the partial nudity isn’t gratuitous or extraneous to the plot, and if the _prime_ purpose isn’t titilation or eroticism, then it can be argued that it’s integral (and a film is considered to be artistic work, just as a photograph or a painting). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/30 "2005-01-30T04:16:38Z")
The issue isn’t whether Keira Knightley’s got nice boobs; she does. And the issue isn’t whether or not the context they were shown in was gratuitous or meaningful; I didn’t see either movie, although as far as I can tell _The Hole_, being a teen horror movie, was pretty much gratuitous in its entirety. No, here’s the issue as I see it. Keira Knightley, a popular actress, is claiming she’s never done nude scenes when there is ample evidence that she has. And when celebrities go around staying foolish things in public, it is our duty as non-celebrities to make fun of them. Thus the cosmic balance is maintained. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/31 "2005-01-30T04:38:14Z")
They remade _Dr. Zhivago_? For the love all that is good and holy, why? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/32 "2005-01-30T04:48:29Z")
Wasn’t the remake of _Dr Zhivago_ a made-for-TV? (that’s what the IMDb says) How nude was she in that? ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/33 "2005-01-30T05:01:52Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Wasn’t the remake of _Dr Zhivago_ a made-for-TV? (that’s what the IMDb says) How nude was she in that? If Google is my guide, not much. Keep in mind, she is a furriner, and they can show more skinthan we can without starting a national riot. So technically, she;s shown the goods. I think she means this is the first time they’ve had significant airtime. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/34 "2005-01-30T05:55:48Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > … here’s the issue as I see it. > [issue as **Little Nemo** sees it deleted] Well, the issue as _ **I** _ see it is that “Give it up, Keira, we’ve all seen your boobs” could feasibly be construed by Keira as a request to stop showing her boobs. Keira, if you’re reading this, I’d like to assure you that that is **not** what we want. **Little Nemo** , please be more careful with your wording in the future. Breasts may be at stake. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/35 "2005-01-30T06:00:33Z")
> [@rorty](#): > > Wasn’t she pretty young when she did The Hole? :dubious: Weren’t we all, really? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/36 "2005-01-30T06:13:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, the issue as I see it is that “Give it up, Keira, we’ve all seen your boobs” could feasibly be construed by Keira as a request to stop showing her boobs. Keira, if you’re reading this, I’d like to assure you that that is not what we want. > > Little Nemo, please be more careful with your wording in the future. Breasts may be at stake. Hmmm, good point. If Keira Knightley is reading this thread, let me state that I intended the statement “Give it up, Keira, we’ve all seen your boobs” in the sense of “We’ve all seen your boobs, Keira, so in order to raise the nudity stakes, you need to give it up and take off the panties this time.” ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/37 "2005-01-30T06:54:23Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Breasts, in an ‘artistic’ context, would almost certainly not be judged as such. You would think so, but in the US, parents are prosecuted for child porn when they take pictures of their kids in the bathtub. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/38 "2005-01-30T07:21:10Z")
> [@kung fu lola](#): > > You would think so, but in the US, parents are prosecuted for child porn when they take pictures of their kids in the bathtub. :rolleyes: Well then my parents are guilty of child pornography. With or without bubbles? Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/39 "2005-01-30T11:33:16Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Maybe it was Natalie Portman. It isn’t nice to tease people like that. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252/40 "2005-01-30T12:04:54Z")
[This link should be worksafe](http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/diary/keira-knightley-bazoomed-for-king-arthur-promotion-017426.php) I’ve never seen Ms Knightly before today… but I’ve got to say I don’t know who thinks she’s got a nice figure, she reminds me of a 12 year old boy. Definitely **not** sexy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-keira-weve-all-seen-your-boobs/287252.md?page=3)