Keira Knightley claims she gives herself a ,000 yearly ‘salary’ to keep it real
I covered some of the early excerpts from Keira Knightley’s Glamour cover story a few days ago, but Glamour released some new quotes and I wanted to cover them. Keira has been a working actress for something like 12 years. She’s been a full-fledged movie star, with a movie star paycheck, for about 9 or 10 years. I’m sure she has quite a bit of money stocked away, probably something over $20 million and less than $50 million. Besides the fact that she’s one of the most in-demand young actresses out there and getting paid as such, she’s also taken lucrative modeling contracts, for Chanel and the jewelry firm Asprey, amongst others. What I’m saying is that Keira is rich. And to her credit, she doesn’t seem to live a very extravagant lifestyle. But are these quotes patronizing?
GLAMOUR: It was reported recently that you allotted yourself a “salary” of only about ,000 in 2024. True?
KK: Yes, it’s something around that. I mean, if I want or need something that goes over that, I get it, but, yes, around that.
GLAMOUR: Forgive me for sounding crass, but it seems awfully little for a household-name Hollywood star!
KK: I think living an [expensive] lifestyle means you can’t hang out with people who don’t live that lifestyle. It alienates you. Some of my best, most hilarious times have been in the least luxurious places.
[From Glamour]
Yeah… I mean, I understand what she’s trying to say, but I’ve known wealthy people like that, who like the idea of “slumming it” and pretending like they were keeping to a budget, and they drive off in their Mercedes S-Class to go back to their mansion. Those people are annoying. Again, I can understand the idea of not wanting to be materialistic, not wanting to flaunt your enormous wealth, but it seems like Keira is patronizing people who actually live on less than ,000 a year (which, statistically, is most of us).
Keira also says that she didn’t change her name privately to Keira Righton (“I found I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t go there. Yet.”) and that her parents didn’t even understand why she and James bothered to get married.
Cele|bitchy | Keira Knightley claims she gives herself a $50,000 yearly ‘salary’ to keep it real