NEW YORK—Keira Knightley feels having a child has changed the way she approaches her career — for the better.
That’s one of the reasons the actress felt comfortable making her Broadway debut in the title role of “Therese Raquin.”
“I think motherhood puts everything into perspective, I really do,” Knightley said at the play’s Broadway opening on Thursday.
Knightley and her husband became the parents of a little girl named Edie earlier this year. So when she returned to work, it was in a play she had passed on doing on numerous occasions.
“I’ve been offered it a bunch of times and I’ve always gone, ‘Well, this is scary and this is really difficult,” Knightley said. “I still find it terrifying, but why not give it a go,” Knightley said.
Gabriel Ebert, from Judith Light, Keira Knightley and Matt Ryan appear on stage at the Broadway opening night curtain call for "Therese Raquin" at Studio 54 on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, in New York. Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP
