Keira Knightley is getting frank about her fame earlier than “Pleasure & Prejudice.” The actress, who’s celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Jane Austen adaptation this 12 months, informed Self-importance Honest alongside former co-star Rosamund Pike that the movie modified how she was seen within the trade. Knightley had beforehand starred in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Bend It Like Beckham” earlier than being Oscar-nominated for enjoying Elizabeth Bennett in “Pleasure & Prejudice.”
“Sure, it was fairly huge for my profession. If folks will come as much as me, it’ll be about that one,” Knightley stated of the movie. “‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ had already come out, however I believe within the public consciousness, I used to be seen as a horrible actress. However I had this phenomenally huge success with ‘Pirates.’ And I believe this [‘Pride & Prejudice’] was the primary one which was a phenomenally huge success, however was additionally critically acclaimed.”
She continued, “So I keep in mind it popping out perhaps the identical 12 months, perhaps across the identical time as ‘Pirates 2.’ And I bought the worst critiques ever for that, after which additionally being nominated for an Oscar on the identical time — it was, in my 21-year-old head, fairly complicated.”
Knightley additionally recalled being 17 when “Bend It Like Beckham” was launched. “I bought horrible critiques for it — or a minimum of those I keep in mind, or those that, in your 17-year-old mind, truly sink in,” she stated. “After all, it’s solely those which might be damaging. So I believe it [‘Pride & Prejudice’] was the primary time that it had been unequivocally constructive, proper? All of these voices of self-doubt are so loud when you find yourself in your teenagers or 20s. However in an grownup mind that’s bought loads of expertise, you possibly can type of go, ‘You realize what? It’s okay. At this time might not be my day, however tomorrow it is perhaps higher, and we’re going to strive our greatest.’ And you may type of discuss your self down off the sting.”
Knightley beforehand informed The Instances that 2005 was the 12 months that was “making and breaking” her profession, with each the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel and “Pleasure & Prejudice” being launched. “It’s a humorous factor when you may have one thing that was making and breaking you on the identical time,” she stated. “I used to be seen as shit due to them, and but as a result of they did so properly I used to be given the chance to do the movies that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for. They had been probably the most profitable movies I’ll ever be part of they usually had been the rationale that I used to be taken down publicly. In order that they’re a really confused place in my head.”