Damnit, Massachusetts. Led the country in the American Revolution. Led the country in Marriage Equality, now leading the country on Transfolks’ rights. Are you feeling a little smug tonight?

Reposting a particularly on-the-nose take someone shared on the last article:

—Like I said, she’ll be fine, and he’s nakedly pathetic. No problems there. But watch for this the next time it happens. Be aware of the woman who’s being made into a stepstool for someone’s ego and self-esteem just because she happens to be in the eyeline of someone so desperately fragile.—

The entire comment is full of so much WTF, like Adam Levine is held up as an example of an actors actor?

I’ve seen a lot of comments like yours (the “I don’t like her but even I think he’s being a dick” comments) and it just goes to support my theory that he’s full of shit. Like, how do you trash talk Keira Knightly? If she’s not your thing, fine, but why would you go out of your way to attack her?

When I was reading his earlier statements, I thought he sounded like an ass. My impression of him hasn’t changed. He’s still an ass and he’s getting called out for it.

When I read the original post it, the director came across as the Prima Donna in the whole situation.

Fine. He can say she is difficult. He can say that she has an entourage. Whatever- we weren’t there. But when he calls her a supermodel, what he’s doing is insulting her professionalism (she is clearly an actress- it’s not like she has no prior career to speak for itself) and insulting it in a particularly…

Dude, he called her a supermodel who wasn’t ready to be a proper actor, and yet he called Adam Levine a “proper actor”. Keira has been acting for over 20 years, has won and been nominated for numerous acting awards, and yet she’s not quite there yet? How, exactly, are we supposed to take that? It’s one thing to not…

You’re not understanding what people are saying though, including myself. Yes, it COULD be just ego. But given the words that have been coming out of his mouth, there is a HUGE undercurrent of sexism. I’m super glad you’re willing to ‘but, actually’ me, but take a step back and look at what you’re saying. Calling a…

I’d have been willing to give him that benefit of the doubt as well, if he hadn’t brought her up 4 years later, unprompted, bitched about her entourage, and called her a supermodel. He’s hitting all the sexism and misogyny high notes.

If he hadn’t referred to her as a ‘supermodel’ as though that is what she is primarily known for and her entryway into acting and super shady and talked about how she isn’t an authentic, ‘proper film actor’ (like Adam Levine!!!), which she clearly is, one could maybe claim that they just didn’t get along, but based on…

I think people are calling his bluff because in her 20+ years acting in Hollywood, on Broadway, and in the West End, NO director has vocalized having a problem with her. She’s gotten nothing but praise for her professionalism, and is allegedly a really lovely person to be around/work with.

He wasn’t asked about her, he just started off an interview about another film with criticism of an actor he’d worked with years before and then kept bringing her up again (unprompted) throughout.

He didn’t need to bring her up at all; the interviewer didn’t ask about her- he just kept bringing up how horrible she was to work with out of the blue. He’s got issues with an actress who seems to have been uncomfortable being alone with him.

Considering that other people who worked with her keep tweeting, “What entourage?” this dude just might want to consider what changed Knightly’s MO on his movie (I’m giving him the immense benefit of the doubt that there was something which could be loosely termed an entourage with her).

I wonder if her need for an entourage had anything to do with an excessively touchy-feely director. If I had the option of hiring human barriers to keep some of my previous coworkers at arms length, I might have had an entourage, too.

This interview us just ugh. The interviewer never actually even asks anything about Keira Knightly, Carney just keeps bringing it up, on the first question even. It really smacks of someone who didn’t get the attention he thought he should get from his female star.

Duana at Lainey has a great take on all this: http://www.laineygossip.com/Keira-Knightle…

Interesting that he's got his arm around her shoulders though. He loves Levine but gets touchy-feely with Knightley. Right.