Keira Knightley and Downton Abbey's Phyllis Logan clash in this exclusive Misbehaviour clip
Keira Knightley in Misbehaviour Photo: Shout! Studios
The 1970 Miss World pageant was a notably dramatic and historic affair—one that is outlined in Jennifer Hosten’s autobiography Miss World 1970: How I Entered A Pageant And Wound Up Making History and its star-studded film adaptation, Misbehaviour. Starring Keira Knightly, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, and Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan, the comedic drama follows the highly publicized clash between the burgeoning Women’s Liberation Movement and the perceived tenets of pageant culture—that is, objectifying sexism and misogyny. Knightley plays Sally Alexander, an academic and one of the activists leading the charge against Miss World. Logan plays her mother, Evelyn, who still holds the ideals of female propriety close.