‘Misbehaviour’ trailer: Keira Knightley stars in 1970 Miss World drama – watch!

The first trailer has been released for Keira Knightley’s new movie, Misbehaviour.

Based on real events, the upcoming period drama dramatises the story of feminist activists who invaded the Miss World pageant in London in 1970.

Knightley leads the cast of Misbehaviour, alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle), Jessie Buckley (War & Peace), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Lesley Manville (World on Fire), Keeley Hawes (The Durrells), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) and Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey).

Watch the trailer:

 

The official synopsis reads: “In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers.

“Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition.

“Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.”

Misbehaviour arrives in UK cinemas on 13th March.