Keira Knightley has higher causes not to consider the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise than their affiliation with Johnny Depp. With the discharge of the primary movie she was 18 and Knightley nonetheless remembers the stress she confronted with its success.
“It’s a humorous factor when you’ve got one thing that was making and breaking you on the similar time,” she stated in a latest interview with The Instances of London. “I used to be seen as shit due to them, and but as a result of they did so nicely I used to be given the chance to do the movies that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for. They have been probably the most profitable movies I’ll ever be part of they usually have been the rationale that I used to be taken down publicly. So that they’re a really confused place in my head.”
Knightley has dominated out taking part in a franchise like that once more, including, “The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you haven’t any management over the place you’re filming, how lengthy you’re filming, what you’re filming.”
Knightley remembers having to protect herself after the movie’s launch. Despite the fact that she was uncovered to the excessive life, she knew she couldn’t actually experience it for concern of the way it would possibly flip right into a story.
“I one hundred pc acknowledged and noticed folks’s careers being shattered as a result of they have been photographed popping out of golf equipment,” stated Knightley. “The cash on my head at that time, in the event you’d obtained an image of me drunk, was so large. I wasn’t going to provide the [paparazzi] the satisfaction of taking that away, so I used to be unbelievably straight.”
Knightley has shared her emotions in direction of the “Pirates” franchise previously. In 2023, throughout an interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.Okay., she acknowledged how they held her again in some ways, having been uncovered to one thing so large at such a younger age.
“I felt very constrained. I felt very caught. So the roles afterwards have been about attempting to interrupt out of that,” Knightley stated. “I didn’t have a way of tips on how to articulate it. It very a lot felt like I used to be caged in a factor I didn’t perceive.”
Knightly subsequent seems on the Netflix restricted sequence thriller “Black Doves” alongside Ben Whishaw. The present is featured on IndieWire’s December TV Preview, in addition to our Winter 2024 Preview.
“Black Doves” streams on Netflix on December 5.