Keira Knightley reveals the hidden corner when playing ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
Keira Knightley admitted that the hit series ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ both helped her succeed and brought her down. Past experiences have made the British star no longer want to participate in any more film franchises.
Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Ship
In a recent interview with The Times, Keira Knightley confided that she had to endure public media stigma when she made a breakthrough with the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The actress was only 17 years old when she first played Elizabeth Swann in the first film called The Curse of the Black Pearl Ship (2003). The resounding success of the work also brought her back to the brand in the following two parts, The Chest of Death (2006) and The End of the World (2007).
Thanks to the craze from Pirates of the Caribbean, Keira Knightley’s name is globally famous but also makes her a target of the media. The British beauty is constantly hunted, stalked and spread negative information by many news sites. “It’s ridiculous when you have something that both makes you successful and sabotages you at the same time,” she told The Times about the series.
The beauty born in 1985 said that Pirates of the Caribbean both helped her succeed, and made her be publicly exploited and degraded
The 8X actress went on to mention the series starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom: “I was considered terrible because of them, but because they did so well I was given the opportunity to make films that I ended up getting an Oscar nomination for. Those are the most successful films I’ve ever been in and that’s why I’m demoted in public. So it’s a very chaotic thing in my head.”
As a result, Knightley said she would not be working on a franchise project again. The female star explained: “The working hours are really crazy. It’s that for so many years of your life, you can’t control where you shoot, when you shoot and what you shoot.”
The British beauty was once subjected to scrutiny because of her thin body
According to Keira Knightley, success from the big screen makes her constantly criticized for her appearance, personality or aspects of her private life. The actress has been stalked and stalked by paparazzi since she was a teenager. The beauty also revealed that by the age of 22, she had a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Pride and Prejudice star was tired of rumors from the media that she was suffering from an eating disorder due to appearing with a thin physique. She constantly faces questions about her weight in interviews, and in some cases, the interviewer even stirs up the story by including other artists. The beauty considers it a public stigma, degrading and it is a memory that the 8X artist always wants to erase.
This is not the first time Keira Knightley has spoken about her role in Pirates of the Caribbean. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar magazine (UK) last year, the star said that transforming into a desirable character like Elizabeth Swann at such a young age made her feel “stuck” and “bound” in Hollywood.
Keira Knightley owns many memorable roles after Elizabeth Swann of Pirates of the Caribbean
Keira Knightley was born in 1985 in England to an artistic family and she began her acting career in the 1990s. Not only famous for the Pirates of the Caribbean series, this rose is also highly appreciated for her roles in many works: Atonement (Atonement), Duchess, Deadly Temptation, Anna Karenina… In particular, her performances in Pride and Prejudice (2005) and The Imitation Game (2014) helped this beautiful star receive Oscar nominations twice.
In terms of personal life, Keira Knightley married musician James Righton in 2013 and has two children.
